Soon after midnight, after a busy day on the inpatient psych unit, I slipped into a deep sleep. Then the phone rang in the residents’ on-call room. “Dr. Lazarus?” the voice on the other end inquired. “Yes,” I replied, half asleep. “This is Dr. Hendricks (not her real name) in the ER. Are you the on-call psych resident tonight?” “I am,” I answered drowsily. Every physician knows that nightly awa...

Israel, as an occupying power, has the obligation to protect Palestinians against all acts of violence. This article examines Israeli settler violence from lens this and law state responsibility. In doing so, it first provides examples attacks Palestinians, with particular emphasis on that are backed up or facilitated by security forces. Second, in analysis these violence, argues belong categor...

Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2009 Launched in London, UK, March 4, 2009 http://www.thelancet.com/series/health-in-the-occupied-palestinianterritory Executive summary "Hope for improving health and quality of life of Palestinians will exist only once people recognise that the structural and political conditions that they endure in the occupied Palestinian territory are the key de...

TIIECOURSE OF fertility change in Palestine and Israel over the second half of the twentieth century might seem of negligible interest for the history of the demographic transition, since their combined 8.9 million inhabitants represent only one-sixth of one percent of the world population. Yet the exceptional political history of these populations, in which demography played a major role for b...

Visual attention in tranquility evaluations has been examined by eye tracking experiments using audiovisual materials collected in traditional villages of China. The results show that without sound stimuli, the attention areas in tranquility evaluations are more concentrated, compared with those in visual aesthetic quality evaluations. With sound stimuli, the attention areas of tranquility eval...

The former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan maintained a unique cultural and traditional identity, playing crucial role in nurturing peace stability within the region. However, region’s tranquility was disrupted by two significant events neighboring Afghanistan. First, Soviet military invasion Afghanistan 1979 led to rise religious fundamentalism. Second, United States’ 20...