In his article on poetry in health care education, Neil Pickering puts forward an argument of radical unpredictability: as we can never know in advance how a poem will be interpreted, it can be of no external use.(1) It is, however, exactly this potential to give rise to multiple interpretations that makes the poem valuable. We hold that the poem should be read and discussed with no other inten...

purpose: the bust?ni family has an efficient role in the development of contemporary literally advance of lebanon. each member of the family did the best to work on reviving the cultural heritage and arabic civilization and old thoughts and also to teach the young generations of lebanon. bust?nis, as the dynamic heads of the contemporary literature published regularly new boos and translations ...

as a modern solution to portrait poets’ emotions, free verse is essentially important. there is a lot of difference in attitude toward the exact date of its arising and disadvantages and advantages in contrast to classic and traditional verse among critiques. some of them believe that arabic free verse is stemmed in acrostic verse – a type of vernacular verse that was appeared in andalusia. oth...

Standard English PoS-taggers generally involve tag-assignment (via dictionary-lookup etc) followed by tag-disambiguation (via a context model, e.g. PoS-ngrams or Brill transformations). We want to PoS-tag our Arabic Corpus, but evaluation of existing PoStaggers has highlighted shortcomings; in particular, about a quarter of all word tokens are not assigned a fully correct morphological analysis...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a new minimally invasive technique to treat achalasia. METHODS We performed a review of the literature of POEM with a special focus on technical details and the results obtained with this technique in patients with achalasia and other esophageal motility disorders. RESULTS Thousands of POEM procedures have been performed worldwide since ...

With the accumulation of clinical trials demonstrating its efficacy and safety, peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has emerged as a less invasive treatment option for esophageal achalasia compared with laparoscopic Heller myotomy. However, the difficulty in determining the exact extent of myotomy, a critical factor associated with the success and safety of the procedure, remains a limitation. Al...

with the update of practical knowledge such as pharmacology by adding information taken from books composed by authors contemporary with him including ibn Wafid (see Bos’ introduction, pp. xvii–xxii). This short analysis illustrates the importance of publishing the Arabic texts of Maimonides’ medical works, when we explore the history of medicine. Bos has made a great contribution to the schola...

Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has been developed in the context of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) as a minimally invasive endoscopic treatment for symptomatic esophageal achalasia, which is a chronic progressive benign disease with severe morbidity and difficult management. Since September 2008, POEM has been successfully performed in more than 200 consecutive patie...

Modern Hebrew and Modern Standard Arabic, both Semitic languages, share many orthographic, lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic similarities, but they are still not mutually comprehensible. Most native Hebrew speakers in Israel do not speak Arabic, and the vast majority of Arabs (outside Israel) do not speak Hebrew. Machine translation (MT) between these two language has the potential...

Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a new endoscopic treatment for achalasia with very good short-term results in adults. Data about POEM in pediatric patients are missing. We present the case of a 10-year-old male patient with type I (classic) achalasia, successfully treated with POEM. The procedure was accomplished in a similar fashion to the technique used in adults. Short-term results were...