ahmad matar is the prominent iraqi poet and a committed character of this age who in the contemporary arab world enjoys great fame. since the holy qur'an and religious texts, are the inspiring references to all arab poets, ahmed matar is no exception. the borrowing of qura'nic verses and contents in his poetry is due to his understanding and his wisdom in a unique manner. this article intends t...

The year 2015 marks the 750th birth anniversary of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). It is less known that Dante had a sound level of medical knowledge, probably derived by his academic studies. In his works, medieval notions of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology (e.g. the connection between brain and spinal cord, function of optic nerve and peripheral nerves, knowledge of vegetative ...

In FSE 2014, an authenticated encryption mode COBRA [4], based on pseudorandom permutation (PRP) blockcipher, and POET [3], based on Almost XOR-Universal (AXU) hash and strong pseudorandom permutation (SPRP), were proposed. Few weeks later, COBRA mode and a simple variant of the original proposal of POET (due to a forging attack [13] on the original proposal) with AES as an underlying blockciph...

If the goal of eliciting accurate user preferences over a com­ plex value space is to be realized, the elicitation process must be through while at the same time not overly burdensome to the user. An ideal preference elicitation tool would max­ imize the information about preferences acquired from the user while minimizing the number of queries required. To this end, we present POET: the Online...

BACKGROUND In February, 2007, the Associated Press (AP) conducted a poll of 1,002 adults in the United States about their attitudes towards the war in Iraq. Respondents were remarkably accurate estimating the current death toll of US soldiers, yet were grossly inaccurate in estimating the current death toll of Iraqi civilians. We conducted a search of newspapers reports to determine the extent ...

A process time diagram showing the execution his tory of individual processes and the interactions be tween processes can be a very useful tool in under standing the behavior of a distributed or concurrent application Managing the size of these visualizations via suitable abstraction facilities is essential for long running and complex applications This paper de scribes Poet a tool that collect...

To what extent have Iraqi engineering research emphases changed over the past fifteen years or so? Exploration of Iraqi publication patterns shows a dramatic rise in activity through 1990, followed by a precipitous decline through early 2003. Iraqi engineering research emphases include chemistry and chemical engineering, information technology, applied math and simulation, applied physics, and ...

While the advantages of production sharing agreements (PSAs) for multinational oil companies are clear, there is a severe shortage of independent analysis of whether PSAs are in the short-, mediumand long-term interests of the Iraqi people. Unfortunately, the Iraqi people have not been informed of the pro-PSA oil development plans, let alone their implications, which have transformed so seamles...

oday ibn zeid ebadi lived during the reign of khosro parviz and was a contemporary of naaman. he had a controversial life. on one hand he was living in pleasure & drinking and on the other hand he was a poet, a literary man and a politician. he is known for philosophical poetry. he reached high status in two imperial courts but conspiracies of envious enemies finally caused him imprisonment by ...

Travelling is at the core of the romantic experience of life, as it implies a form of reaching out in quest of experience, which will then be, to quote famous words, “recollected in tranquillity”. The romantic poets travelled considerably, both physically and mentally, and I will try to address the two forms of journey in this paper, since I believe that imaginary excursions colour our view of ...