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Building a corpus for Palestinian Arabic : a preliminary study
No full textThis paper presents preliminary results in building an annotated corpus of the Palestinian Arabic dialect. The corpus consists of about 43K words, stemming from diverse resources. The paper discusses some linguistic facts about the Palestinian dialect, compared with the
Modern Standard Arabic, especially in terms of morphological, orthographic, and lexical variations, and suggests some directions to resolve the challenges these differences pose to the annotation goal.
Furthermore, we present two pilot studies that investigate whether existing tools for processing Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic can be used to speed up the annotation process of our
Palestinian Arabic corpu
Jerusalem au tournant du XIXe siecle : une ville partagee
No full textVan Gucht,Dirk:S’appuyant sur des sources archivistiques locales et sur des récits de pèlerins, l’ouvrage de Vincent
Lemire sur la Jérusalem des dernières décennies de l’administration ottomane constitue pour
l’historien palestinien Musa Sroor une contribution importante à l’histoire de cette cité alors
partagée.
Le livre de Vincent Lemire sur « Jérusalem 1900 » traite de la période charnière à la fin de
l’empire ottoman, des années 1860 au début des années 1930. Cette époque de modernisation de la
ville connaît à la fois l’avènement d’une administration municipale interconfessionnelle et une
complexité sociale éloignée des stéréotypes conflictuels actuels. L’ambition de Vincent Lemire est
de relire cette période d’avant le mandat britannique, « où tout est possible », au prisme des sources
locales et de revisiter les sources exogènes qui ont contribué à façonner l’historiographie de la ville,
notamment les récits de pèlerins et les archives consulaires
A Distributed Service-Based System for Homecare Self-Management
No full textAging is becoming a critical issue for Europe and many countries around the world. It is imposing significant burden on societies and their national services. Enabling longer home independent living is seen one of the most promising ways to overcome this issue. However, to achieve a number of challenges need to be overcome, especially those related to management of
health and disease let alone other social and logistical barriers. One of these challenges is malnutrition, which is considered one of the root causes for the occurrence of other diseases. This paper presents the design of a distributed system that enables homecare in the context of management of self-feeding
through balanced nutritional intake. The design employs a service-based system that incorporates a number of services including monitoring of activities, nutritional reasoning for assessing feeding habits, diet recommending for food planning, and marketplace invocation for automating food shopping to meet dietary requirement
Implementing interoperable provenance in biomedical research
No full textThe provenance of a piece of data refers to knowledge about its origin, in terms of the entities and
actors involved in its creation, e.g. data sources used, operations carried out on them, and users enacting those operations. Provenance is used to better understand the data and the context of its production, and to assess its reliability, by asserting whether correct procedures were followed. Providing evidence for validating research is of particular importance in the biomedical domain, where the strength of the results depends on the data sources and processes used. In recent times, previously manual processes have become fully or semi-automated, e.g. clinical trial recruitment, epidemiological studies, diagnosis making. The latter is typically achieved through interactions of heterogeneous software systems in multiple settings (hospitals, clinics, academic and industrial research organisations). Provenance traces of these software need to be integrated in a consistent and meaningful manner, but since these software systems rarely share a common platform, the provenance interoperability between them has to be achieved on the level of conceptual models. It is a non-trivial matter to determine where to start in making a biomedical software system provenance-aware. In this paper, we specify recommendations to developers on how to approach provenance modelling, capture, security, storage and querying, based on our experiences with two large-scale biomedical research projects: Translational Research and Patient Safety in Europe (TRANSFoRm) and Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research (EHR4CR). While illustrated with concrete issues encountered, the recommendations are of a sufficiently high level so as to be reusable across the biomedical domai
Transboundary climate security : climate vulnerability and rural livelihoods in the Jordan River Basin
No full textThis study investigates the climate-related vulnerabilities of agricultural communities in (post)occupation environments. Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2012: 5), vulnerability is understood as the propensity or predisposition to be adversely affected by hazards or stresses, where climatic stresses are mediated by social vulnerabilities. Military occupation by foreign armed forces comprises an exceptional but under-researched condition of social vulnerability to climate-related stresses. We define (post)occupation as areas with current or historically recent experience of military occupation. The three study areas reflect distinct stages of occupational control within the same regional watershed (Jordan Basin). They encompass: protracted military occupation (West Bank), annexation (Golan Heights) and post-occupation (southern Lebanon). That the coercive control regime for all three areas is, or was, administered by the Israeli state (military or civil administration) creates a governance linkage for comparative analysis. This research project is the first comparative study of climate vulnerability in conditions of (post)occupation. While each of the three areas ha
Total quality management in Birzeit university and main library
No full textA project report submitted in partial fulfillment for advanced certificate course on "Modern Library Practices"
Under the guidance of Dr. R. Ravichandran Sr. Librarian & Coordinator of Modern Library Practices
National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research Taramani, Chennai — 600 113 India January, 201
Boundary shear stress in asymmetric rectangular compound channels
No full textA series of nine experiments was performed in a physical model of an asymmetric compound channel to quantify the boundary shear stress at the interface of the bed of a main channel and floodplain. Commonly used equations of shear stress distributions across the bottoms of the main channel and floodplain interfaces were analyzed and tested for various types of asymmetric compound channels and their flow conditions. The lateral momentum transfer between the deep main channel and the adjoining shallow floodplains was found to greatly affect the shear stress distribution at the bottoms of the main channel and the flood plain subsections. Different dimensionless ratios of shear stress distributions were obtained and related to the relevant parameters. Some important results concerning the uniformity of the shear stress distribution, which is significant in sediment-laden rivers to state the possible locations of erosion and deposition, are presente