in arabic poetry, the device of repetition functions at two levels: form and meaning. in form, repetition makes for musical richness, and in meaning, it makes for emphasis. the present article is a study of repetition in “an address from the market of idleness” by palestinian poet samä«h al-qäsim. the poem depicts actual and possible palestinian sufferings inflicted by israelis and stresse...

The paper attempts to provide an overview of the value system in addressing practice multilingual speakers. Scholars' interest this area is not accidental rather deliberations field have turned it into interdisciplinary linguistic research. awareness or knowledge (axiology) systems reflect several mechanisms from socio-cultural perspectives, consequently promoting mutual sharing and understandi...

For health care, never has the classical expression “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” appeared more appropriate. Never has health care been blessed with such a wide array of pharmaceuticals, treatment strategies and resources to improve the health care of our patients. At the same time providers are faced with an ever-growing loss of autonomy and ever-increasing financial pr...

This paper presents the MARIO’s CGA (Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment) module for the Kompaı̈ platform that aims at autonomously performing and managing the execution of specific tests required in the CGA process. The application relies on the CGA ontology, which is part of the Mario Ontology Network (MON), as a support to the execution of the assessment process and a reference model for stori...

This RFC is a proposed elective protocol for the Internet community and requests discussion and suggestions for improvement. It describes a method for compressing the headers of TCP/IP datagrams to improve performance over low speed serial links. The motivation, implementation and performance of the method are described. C code for a sample implementation is given for reference. Distribution of...

the focus on public policy and health equity is discussed in reference to the current global health policy discussion on universal health coverage (uhc). this initiative has strong commitment from the leadership of the international organizations involved, but a lack of policy clarity outside of the health financing component may limit the initiative’s impact on health inequity. in order to add...

In modern computers, a single “random” access to main memory often takes as much time as executing hundreds of instructions. Rather than using traditional compiler approaches to enhance locality by interchanging loops, reordering data structures, etc., this paper proposes the radical concept of using aggressive data compression technology to improve hierarchical memory performance by reducing m...