background & aim : prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in males and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in palestine. although, many studies were conducted in de- veloped countries to evaluate quality of life (qol) in survivors of prostate cancer, the researchers could not find any study that was conducted in a developing country including palestine. therefore, the p...

A growing number of studies are investigating the way that aesthetic experiences are generated across different media. Empathy with a perceived human artist has been suggested as a common mechanism [1]. In this study, people heard 30 s excerpts of ambiguous music and poetry preceded by neutral, positively valenced, or negatively valenced information about the composer's or author's intent. The ...

BACKGROUND Psoriasis is a frequent skin inflammatory disorder that inflicts millions of patients around the globe. To meet their healthcare needs, patients with psoriasis often seek treatment outside the allopathic paradigm. Use of medicinal plants has emerged as one of the most common and preferred modalities of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The aim of this study was to investi...

Water scarcity in Palestine is a top national priority issue. Extensive research has analysed the causes of water Palestine, focusing on negotiations, occupation, climate change, environmental conditions, role international donors and funders, mismanagement. Nevertheless, how these representations are reflected Palestinian textbooks not been investigated. However, key because they reflect gover...

This paper presents the advances in expressive speech for the interactive installation The Muses of Poetry, as well as the results of an evaluation to assess the interaction and emotional experience of the participants. The objective of the installation is to bring poetry closer to a wider audience through the use of animated characters who not only read poetry, but also manifest the emotional ...

“Wild thorns” is a novel written by the Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh; it focuses on the colonisation of Palestine from a feminist point of view. She considers the Israeli colonisation as a patriarchy. This paper aims at investigating two types of colonization that have been represented in the form of patriarchy in the novel. The investigation of the issue of Palestine from a feminist poi...

546 doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001289 Instead of dance, Erato (“beloved”) governed romance as the Muse of Love Poetry. On this Italian card advertising a company cofounded by chloroform pioneer Justus von Liebig (1803 to 1873), a seated Erato (right) is pictured playing the cithara, the musical and etymological precursor to today’s guitar. If a 20th-century actor portrayed Erato poorly, that th...

Identical rhymes (right/write, attire/retire) are considered satisfactory and even artistic in French poetry but are considered unsatisfactory in English. This has been a consistent generalization over the course of centuries, a surprising fact given that other aspects of poetic form in French were happily applied in English. This paper puts forward the hypothesis that this difference is not me...

Several poetry generation systems that are in some way inspired or motivated by existing articles such as newspaper stories have recently appeared. However, most if not all of them employ template-based generation, which limits both the expressiveness of the system and the ability to faithfully convey the message of the source article. In this paper we present our work on a poetry generation sy...