Acknowledgements I first want to say that it was a pleasure and great experience to have Oded as advisor. On one hand I had much liberty, but on the other hand Oded was very available to support and guide me during all Ph.D phases (and even thereafter for finding a job !). I hope to have learned from his particular way to look at science in a positive, fresh and ambitious way. I sincerily thank...

The present work aimed at investigating changes in growth and some metabolic activities in NaCl-stressed bean plants, and assessing the role of ascorbic acid to alleviate these changes. The field experiment was carried out to study the response of presoaked fava bean seeds (Vicia fava cv. Misr 2) in freshly prepared ascorbic acid (50 ppm ≈ 0.3 mM; as recommended dose as described by  El-Tayeb, ...

Background: Observing ethical principles and paying attention to human status based on Islamic teachings had a profound impact on the lifestyle and architecture of traditional Iranian buildings. Therefore, the meaningful relationship between architecture and ethics always provides for the spiritual needs of man, so as to achieve equilibrium in the architectural space. Accordingly, Islamic teach...

Remerciements Au terme de ces trois années de thèse passéesà Montpellier, c'est avec une immense joie que j'´ ecris ces quelques lignes de remerciements. J'aimerais tout d'abord exprimer ma gratitudè a Messieurs Christian Seassal, Gérard Tayeb et Diederik Wiersma pour avoir consacré un temps précieuxà la lecture détaillée de mes travaux, età Messieurs Walter Kob, Jean-Michel Lourtioz, Eric Akma...

Background: Orphanet aims to provide rare disease information to healthcare professionals, patients, and their relatives. Objective: The objective of this work is to evaluate two methodologies (UMLS and manual Orphanet-ICD-10 link-based mapping & String Based matching) used to map Orphanet thesaurus to the MeSH thesaurus. Results: On a corpus of 375 mappings, the string based matching provides ...

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One of the signs of listening attentively and supportively is occasional back-channel feedback, small utterances produced by the listener while the speaker continues his turn. To do this appropriately it is necessary to understand when back-channels are and are not welcome. In Egyptian Arabic, times when the listener is especially welcome to back-channel are indicated by various prosodic featur...

This paper is on comparative leadership philosophy. It explores the ancient Asian wisdom for leadership development from the Kautilyan and Confucian perspectives. Every now and then, there is a need for us to look and re-look at ancient wisdoms to be applied effectively in the modern context. In this paper, the authors provide an inside-out leadership development approach. This has practical im...

Cereal Chem. 83(3):223–227 Rice flour and rice starch were single-screw extruded and selected product properties were determined. Neural network (NN) models were developed for prediction of individual product properties, which performed better than the regression models. Multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) models were developed to simultaneously predict five product properties or three pr...