This article explores the impact of Arab reality television on Arab governance. Reality television activates hypermedia space (Kraidy, 2006c), a broadly defined inter-media symbolic field, because its commercial logic promotes ostensibly participatory practices like voting, campaigning and alliance building via mobile telephones and the Internet. How does hypermedia space contribute to changing...

An extensive body of research has tested the DeLone and McLean (2003) information systems success model in many contexts. Surprisingly, few of these studies have applied it to e-commerce. A study by Wang (2008) represents one such initiative, but it is crucial to address several remaining gaps associated with that study. Moreover, no e-commerce success model has considered the Arab world, which...

The complex societal beliefs and values of the Arab world provide a rich setting to examine the hypothesized influence of culture on information technology transfer (ITT). Two research questions arise in this context: (1) Do cultural beliefs and values affect the transference of information technology in the Arab world? and (2) Does contact with technologically advanced societies impact ITT and...

An extensive body of research has tested the DeLone and McLean (2003) information systems success model in many contexts. Surprisingly, few of these studies have applied it to e-commerce. A study by Wang (2008) represents one such initiative, but it is crucial to address several remaining gaps associated with that study. Moreover, no e-commerce success model has considered the Arab world, which...

BACKGROUND An intersectionality approach that addresses the non-additive influences of social categories and power structures, such as gender and ethnicity, is used as a research paradigm to further understanding the complexity of health inequities. While most researchers adopt an intersectionality approach to study patients' health status, in this article we exemplify its usefulness and import...

In this paper, we present an approach to lexicon optimization for Chinese language modeling. The method is an iterative procedure consisting of two phases, namely lexicon generation and lexicon pruning. In the first phase, we extract appropriate new words from a very large training corpus using statistical approaches. In the second phase, we prune the lexicon to a preset memory limitation using...

This paper presents the English valency lexicon EngValLex, built within the Functional Generative Description framework. The form of the lexicon, as well as the process of its semi-automatic creation is described. The lexicon describes valency for verbs and also includes links to other lexical sources, namely PropBank. Basic statistics about the lexicon are given. The lexicon will be later used...

Abstract Are the cognitive units in mental lexicon of Bantu speakers words or morphemes? The very small experimental literature addressing this question suggests that answer is morphemes, but a closer look at results shows premature. A novel theory lexicon, Discriminative Lexicon, which incorporates word-based view and computationally implemented Linear Learner (LDL) put to test with data set 1...

The study aims to find out what are lexicons used in the Sampi Gerumbungan dance costumes and its cultural meaning. method this is a descriptive qualitative design. directs researchers obtaining social information accurately, broadly, completely by designing problem formulations. results of found that there were sixteen (16) dance. All also classified based on parts body, namely head (5 lexicon...

INTRODUCTION The world prevalence of ADHD ranges between 5-10%. The prevalence in Israel was generally studied from prescriptions of methylphenidate and not from cohorts of children. METHODS We assessed the prevalence of ADHD among a cohort of early school age children in the Jewish and Arab populations using DSM-IV criteria and evaluated the difference between teachers' and parental assessme...