This study investigated three factors that contribute to social exclusion: group norms, individual characteristics, and stereotypes. Non-Arab American 12- and 16-year-olds (N = 199) judged their expectations about the inclusivity of Arab American and non-Arab American peer groups toward new peers characterized by: (a) different ethnic identity but similar interests (e.g., hobbies) and (b) same ...

the Grand President of the League, and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the Lady President. Consequently, when the Prince came into the garden from Clarence House at four o'clock, the lawns which lie in front of the State apartments were thronged. In the absence abroad of Lord Wolferton, the senior Honorary Secretary, the Prince was received by Sir William Collins and Sir James Harrison, Ho...

Unlike the joyous celebrations that accompany Independence Day in the USA, the Chinese New Year or Australia Day, Europe Day is unlikely to be marked by exuberant street parades, sumpt uous picnics or spectacular fireworks displays. In fact, few Europeans will even be aware that 9 May celebrates the anniversary of Robert Schumann’s proposal for a unified Europe. Within the EU’s member states, n...

opment posed by widening gaps in freedom, women’s empowerment and knowledge across the region. Looking at international, regional and local developments affecting Arab countries since that first report was issued confirms that those challenges remain critically pertinent and may have become even graver, especially in the area of freedom. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the status of Arab ...

The paper describes the VUB AI-Lab team competing in the small robots league of RoboCup '98 in Paris. The approach of this team targets for a longterm evolution of diierent robots, team-structures, and concepts. Therefore, the eeorts for the '98 participation focus providing a exible architecture, which forms a basis for this goal. In doing so, the development of the so-called RoboCube constitu...

The Standard Platform League is unique among RoboCup soccer leagues for its focus on software. Since all teams compete using the same hardware (a standard robotic platform), success is predicated on software quality, and the shared hardware makes quality judgments simpler and more objective. Growing out a league based on the Sony AIBO quadruped robots, the league has constantly evolved while mo...

The theoretical framework of the Arab Knowledge Report for the year 2010/2011 is determined through addressing the central concept, which the report aims to highlight and discuss thoroughly. This central concept is represented in ‘preparing the young Arab generations for the knowledge society’ as an objective and a means to achieve the desired Arab renaissance. This chapter addresses the concep...

Over the last few years protest movements such as the Arab Spring, the Spanish Indignados movement, and the Occupy protests, have cascaded through the Middle East and the rest of the world.1 All of these were portrayed as ‘Internet Revolutions’, or at least as having been accelerated by the communicative capabilities of the Internet (Hamdy 1The Arab Spring is also named ‘Arab Uprisings’ by some...

OBJECTIVES Our study was conducted to collect exploratory data on Arab mothers in the United States regarding their dietary and physical activity behaviors and to assess the relationship of acculturation to these behaviors. DESIGN Focus groups and interviews were conducted to collect data on dietary and physical activity behaviors of Arab mothers in Lubbock, Texas. The Social Cognitive Theory...

INTRODUCTION In Israel, 58.9% of Jewish and Arab Israeli women aged 25 to 64 years are overweight or obese (body mass index >or=25 kg/m(2)). The objective of this analysis is to describe body weight dissatisfaction differences between Jewish and Arab Israeli women with normal or overweight-obese body mass index. METHODS This analysis included 1,393 Jewish and Arab women who participated in th...