Abstract Based on Ivan Marcus’s concept of “open book” and considerations medieval Ashkenazic concepts authorship, the present article inquires into circumstances surrounding production Sefer Arugat ha-Bosem , a collection piyyut commentaries written or compiled by thirteenth-century scholar Abraham b. Azriel. Unlike all other commentators, ben Azriel inscribed his name commentary claims to sup...

This paper presents an extended discussion of issues associated with the role of information privacy in IS research. This discussion was initiated in conjunction with a panel session at ICIS 2002. Following the conference, each of the panelists reworked and extended their position statements, and provided a commentary on the position statements of the other panelists. The paper is framed with h...

Released in October 2020, Our Sixties: An Activist’s History is Paul Lauter’s new book, a fine piece of social history masterfully woven into very moving, honest, and personal memoir. In carefully conceived 13 chapters tracing the various phases activist’s history, book combines politics, pedagogy, theory. Beautifully written, it offers solid information sound, sharp commentary on events that m...

The extraction of important sentences is a key technique for automatic summarization. Whereas most research in this area has targeted written language, we are conducting research on spoken language monologues such as presentations and TV news commentary programs. We collected 50 TV news commentary programs, and experimented with the extraction of important sentences from transcriptions. We used...

With each new year, one cannot help but reflect on the need to maintain tradition, yet also celebrate change—and when it comes to our journal Pediatrics, that is certainly the case. For the past 7 years (since we have been at the helm of the journal), we have published a commentary in which we share thoughts from our editorial board and managing editorial staff, and we are once again continuing...

this article is a commentary of an overview on “medical tourism” submitted by lunt and marrion, which describes a framework for the study of the issues related to medical tourism. the commentary attempts to differentiate between the current interest in medical tourism and the time-honored and well-established treatment abroad from countries with underdeveloped health systems. the commentary als...

BACKGROUND The language faculty is probably the most distinctive feature of our species, and endows us with a unique ability to exchange highly structured information. In written language, information is encoded by the concatenation of basic symbols under grammatical and semantic constraints. As is also the case in other natural information carriers, the resulting symbolic sequences show a deli...

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

The Holy Quran was descended from Almighty Allah to the Holy Prophet (AS) about the last 14 centuries and there has been a time interval between descent of the Quran and its existing readers and commentators. This Question is posed whether this time interval between descent of the Quran and commentator will effect on verses understanding and their commentary or not? As one of commentary princip...

Linguistic errors are pervasive in second language (L2) students’ writing. Depending on their gravity, the errors may cause a minor degree of irritation to the reader or even lead to total communication breakdown. As such, errors have always been a major concern to both students and teachers, and error correction has also assumed a central position in language teaching. Students generally expec...