This paper analyses the developments of the separate Jewish and Arab health systems and health realities. It is found that the activities of charitable institutions, the attitude of the British mandate government and different traditions of medical policy all played a part in the emergence of two separate health worlds. The influx of foreign funding for private health institutions, in particula...

The 11 Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (STRs) included in the Promega Corporation PowerPlex Y System (DYS19, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS385, DYS437, DYS438 and DYS439) were typed in three ethnic groups ("Andalusians", Berber and Arab) and one cosmopolitan population (Tunis) from Tunisia, summing up 247 individuals, and 139 different haplotypes. Focusing the analysi...

Rapid urbanization and globalization make the move toward Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) a must. Achieving successful transformation towards SSCs constitutes a significant challenge for policy makers. One area that is not well covered in the literature is the application of SSCs in specific regions, such as the Arab region. This paper draws upon examples of SSCs initiatives and existing SSC tra...

The state educational system in Israel reflects the declared character of the state as a ‘Jewish state’, and, consequently, the deep inter-group divisions in society, including a large Palestinian Arab minority. This study demonstrates how Israeli educational policy and curriculum are designed to support the Jewish nation-building project. As such, they silence the Palestinian Arab narrative wh...

Ontologies as part of a lexicon are important for many NLP tasks. In this paper, we draw on experiences gained in an ESPRIT project called TREVI, which concerns news filtering and enrichment and includes a English/Spanish multilingual Lexicon. We sketch the way the Lexicon, including an ontology, is constructed, and present the methodology used for adding domain ontologies. In general, the appr...

the spreading activation models of mental lexicon's structure have presented the lexicon in multiple layers (semantic- syntactic- phonological). each layer is a network of nodes which are associated by links. the nature of these links is different from layer to layer. the literature for english speakers has shown that in the phonological layer, phonological forms of words have been linked based...

to write the history of arab literature, contemporary arab writers have used different methods. these methods differ from each other and each one has some advantages over the other methods, although there are some commonalities between them in classifying different stages of arab literature, the manner of introducing poets and writers, reviewing different types of poem and prose, and interpreti...

The aim of this paper is to diagnose the sufficiency first-year pedagogy students’ discoursive competence, considering lexical, reading comprehension and written competences. Whit objective, three instruments were designed adapted, one for each competence: lexical availability test, test rubric evaluate an argumentative writing task. Among main findings, it stands out that highest performance c...

BACKGROUND There is little published information on the coronary risk characteristics of Palestinian women. However, there are documented lifestyle differences as well as socioeconomic inequalities between Arab and Jewish women in Israel. OBJECTIVES To compare the risk factor characteristics of coronary heart disease patients in Palestinian and Israeli women. METHODS This study included 546...