Prosodie relations in prose, poetry and music are discussed with an emphasis on durational properties. In order to gain a deeper understanding of speech prosody, we are presently engaged in a comparison of the timing relations in such activities as the reading of poetry and music performance, where there usually is a strong and obvious rhythmic patteming of the produced sound sequences. Also th...

Existing poetry generation systems usually focus on particular features of poetry (such as rhythm, rhyme, metaphor) and specific techniques to achieve them. They often resort to template-base solutions, in which it is not always clear how many of the alleged features of the outputs were already present in the template employed. The present paper considers two specific features – thematic consis...

This article tries to approach the conflict of Palestine through novel Rsa'aytu Ramallah by Maorid Barghouti as seeking its parallel realities with historical facts. In so doing, genetical components are be analyzed employing Genetical Structaralism theory Lucien Goldmann. The genetic can seen in parallelism between literary facts and socio-historical along story. Thus, not only comprises a mer...

A Short History of Psychoanalysis in Palestine and Israel Rafael Moses, M.D. The history of psychoanalysis in Palestine/Israel begins with the emigration from Germany of one of Freud's “Group of Seven,” Dr. Max Eitingon. Actually, Eitingon was not the first zionistically oriented psychoanalyst to pass through pre-state Palestine in the early part of this century. Eitingon himself had visited Pa...

The universe is a grand book, Galileo noted in 1623, written in the language of mathematics (1). Those poor souls who don’t understand that language, he cautioned, wander about in a “dark labyrinth.” As languages go, mathematics can be intimidating. Plenty of people linger in the shade of Galileo’s labyrinth. To the uninitiated, equations, theorems, and proofs—to say nothing of their constituen...

Background: Questionnaire based surveys are an importance tool in epidemiology and public health research. Although there may be a certain degree of bias in this quality of care assessment tool since some of these measurements may be misleading, it remains an inexpensive tool for such assessments. The quality of services provided to diabetic patients in Palestine has not been studied previously...