OBJECTIVE to explore the challenges and barriers faced by Palestinian maternal health-care providers (HCPs) to the provision of quality maternal health-care services through a case study of a Palestinian public referral hospital in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. DESIGN AND METHOD descriptive qualitative study. The data are from a broader study, conducted in 2005 at the same hospital as p...

BACKGROUND The movement of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories is restricted by bureaucratic and physical obstacles. To date, no studies have examined the barriers that Palestinian medical students face in accessing hospitals for clinical training. The objectives of this study were to characterize these barriers and understand how they affect Palestinian students' medical educa...

We employ statistical methods to analyze, generate, and translate rhythmic poetry. We first apply unsupervised learning to reveal word-stress patterns in a corpus of raw poetry. We then use these word-stress patterns, in addition to rhyme and discourse models, to generate English love poetry. Finally, we translate Italian poetry into English, choosing target realizations that conform to desired...

The 1993 and 1995 Oslo accords resulted in the classification of the West Bank into three zones, referred to as Areas A, B and C. Area A is under Palestinian civil and security authority; Area B is under the Palestinian Authority while security responsibilities are shared by both the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities. Area C which comprises around 60 percent of the West Bank is under Isra...

This article explores one of the many manifestations of the mysterious link between mathematics and poetry—the phenomenon of poetry inspired by mathematics. Such poetry responds to the mathematical concerns and accomplishments of the day, be it a ground breaking definition or technique, a long standing unsolved conjecture, or a celebrated theorem. The motivation for writing the poems, their mat...

The forms of Chinese classic poetry have been developed through thousands years of history and are still current in today’s poetry society. A re-classification of the rhyming words, however, is necessary for the classic poetry writing to be done in the new settings of modern Chinese language. In order to maintain the continuation of the poetry forms, computing technology can be used to help the...

The power of poetry is universally acknowledged, but it is debatable whether its appreciation is reserved for experts. Here, we show that readers with no particular knowledge of a traditional form of Welsh poetry unconsciously distinguish phrases conforming to its complex poetic construction rules from those that violate them. We studied the brain response of native speakers of Welsh as they re...

Metrical patterning and rhyme are frequently employed in poetry but also in infant-directed speech, play, rites, and festive events. Drawing on four line-stanzas from nineteenth and twentieth German poetry that feature end rhyme and regular meter, the present study tested the hypothesis that meter and rhyme have an impact on aesthetic liking, emotional involvement, and affective valence attribu...

after occupation of palestine by zionists in 1948, some of palestinians became refugees to adjacent arabic countries and some of other people were inhabited inside the occupied land, particularly in west bank (of jordan river) and gaza strip. thence, palestinians never saw political tranquility, stability, and equilibrium. consequently, contemporary poetry was also affected by such chaotic circ...