What is the relationship to 'contemporary' — 'now' in Scottish Gaelic poetry? How are idea of ‘present’, minoritized status Gaelic, and evolving between language landscape (and meaningless) figured poems? Taking these questions as a starting point, this essay explores through ideas Agamben, Latour, Christopher Whyte range contemporary poems by writers (including Meg Bateman, Ruaraidh MacThòmais...

Carine Sebaaly, Sahar Kassem, Elena Grishina , Hussein Kanaan, Alaa Sweidan, M. Said Chmit, Hussein M. Kanaan* Laboratory of Biotechnology of Natural Substances and Health Products, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon, Laboratory of the Medical Analyses Center, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine STATE SCI...

The history of medicine has conventionally been studied by research into prose medical texts, which provide an index of the depth of the professional knowledge available to the contemporary physician, but examination of poetry gives a measure of the diffusion of this knowledge into the laity. William Harvey's monumental discovery of the circulation of the blood in 1628 is now acknowledged as a ...

Recent progress in neural learning demonstrated that machines can do well in regularized tasks, e.g., the game of Go. However, artistic activities such as poem generation are still widely regarded as human’s special capability. In this paper, we demonstrate that a simple neural model can imitate human in some tasks of art generation. We particularly focus on traditional Chinese poetry, and show...

Deletion polymorphisms for the glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene are associated with increased risk of cancer, and are implicated in detoxifying mutagenic electrophilic compounds. GST Polymorphic variants were reported for different populations. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequencies of GSTM1 and GSTT1 null genotypes among Bahraini, Lebanese and Tunisian Arabs. GST genotypi...

Contemporary French-speaking literatures are enriched by creative voices whose dif-ferent forms of expression show the renewal and permeability literary artistic genres. In this theoretical context, we frame our proposal which entails analyze themes outlined in Le Piano oriental (2015) Zeina Abirached (Beyrouth, 1981), a Franco Lebanese artist, living Paris since 2004. This graphic novel explor...

The Atlas Group created a digital mixed-media archive of contemporary Lebanese history, made up produced and found documents. These archives look immediately ambiguous: they don’t collect historical documents; actually contain visual artefacts by the artist Walid Raad. — partly accessible on web but also physically exhibited performed are not intended to preserve memory past, become indeed usef...

The pharmaceutical sector plays a fundamental role in supporting the economic development of a country. The performance of this sector is influenced by employees’ performance, which can be affected by the way employees perceive fairness at their workplace. Fairness perception can be affected by the equity sensitivity type and the personality traits of employees. The Lebanese context lacks studi...

Authorship attribution and identifying time period of literary works are fundamental problems in quantitative analysis of languages. We investigate two fundamentally different machine learning text categorization methods, Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Naïve Bayes (NB), and several style markers in the categorization of Ottoman poems according to their poets and time periods. We use the coll...

eulogizing mohammad (pbuh), with the long history as we know it, has always been in the center of attention for poets since his birth. as we know, one of the most notable poems, categorized as religious poems, is that of bordeh bosiri which was written in 7th century and revitalized the eulogy of the prophet. since then, following bosiri’s style, many have portrayed their genuine affections on ...