What are the assets available to the incoming Obama administration for resolving or at least reducing the intensity of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? What liabilities and constraints will the next administration face and what opportunities might it attempt to exploit for this purpose? This document constitutes a first attempt by two experts— one Israeli, the other a Palestinian—to examine th...

Security for costs and security for claim are interim protective measures available during an arbitration. They are sought when one side is concerned that the other side may not have enough money to pay an adverse costs order or satisfy an award made against it. They require the party against whom they are ordered to set aside a sum of money to satisfy any eventual award or costs order. In theo...

Single-writer k-quorum protocols achieve high availability without incurring the risk of read operations returning arbitrarily stale values: in particular, they guarantee that, even in the presence of an adversarial scheduler, any read operation will return the value written by one of the last k writes. In this paper, we expand our understanding of k-quorums in two directions: first, we present...

OBJECTIVE To assess anaemia prevalence and correlated social and biological determinants among pregnant women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt). DESIGN A cross-sectional survey conducted among pregnant women attending/accessing UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) health centres in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in September and Oc...

The reader-writer problem [1] seeks to provide a lock that protects some critical section of code for two classes of processes: readers and writers. Multiple readers can have access to the critical section simultaneously, but only one writer can have access to the critical section to the exclusion of all other processes. The difficulties in solving the reader-writer problem lie not only in deve...

This article considers how the representation of Palestinians in popular imaging has shifted from nineteenth century to current day. It will utilise a mixture media, including photography, portraiture, film, political posters and television. longitudinal study charts relationship Orientalism biblification as systems – their respective connotations familiarity otherness delineating questions ind...

Writer recognition based on a small amount of handwritten text is one the most challenging deep learning problems because implicit characteristics handwriting styles. In convolutional neural network, writer supervised has shown great success. These methods typically require lot annotated data. However, collecting data expensive. Although unsupervised may address annotation issues significantly,...

anthony giddens, a prominent social theoretician of contemporary sociology, has done extensive theoretical efforts in the last three decades. central to his debates is the theory of structuration, which was first introduced in his book constitution of society (1984). the theory, aimed at giving an end to dominance of hermeneutic theories on the one hand and structuralism and functionalism on th...