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التحكم في مرض السكري - النوع الثاني و السيطرة على مستوى السكر في الدم : نتائج من دراسة عيادات محافظة رام الله -فلسطين
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Enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in accordance with Palestine legislation, Riyad and New York conventions : a comparative study
No full textThe use of statistical methods in the study of the role of children in the home environment in the province of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Palestine
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Molecular characterization of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in three different Arab world countries
No full textKamel,ADWAN:An-Najah N. University
Tamer,ESSAWI:Clinical Laboratory
Mohammad,Farraj:Clinical LaboratoryMolecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates in three different Arab world countries
(West Bank of Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq) was the aim of the study presented here. This is done on the basis of spa sequencing and
staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing. The majority (92%) of the spa-tested isolates belonged to spa type t932
and possessed the (SCCmec) type III. These data suggest that MRSA clone, which harbors the spa type t932 and (SCCmec) type III,
had been transferred throughout the three studied countrie
HQSF Study on employment opportunities and market assessment for university graduates in Palestine: the relevance of HQSF fields of support
No full textHani Qaddumi Scholarship Foundation (HQSF) is a not-for-profit foundation that believes in the power of
education and philanthropy to promote development and societal progress in Palestine. The Foundation
provides scholarships and financial aid to talented and gifted young Palestinians to complete their
undergraduate and graduate studies in Palestine and abroad.
The Foundation is looking to reexamine its grant mandate and policies to ensure their compliance with the
needs of the Palestinian labor market. As it stands, HQSF offers scholarships to Palestinian undergraduate
students in the fields of Engineering and Information Technology (IT) exclusively, who are currently
attending or planning to attend local universities or the American University of Beirut (AUB). Graduate
scholarships are offered to students to allow them to study in a select group of accredited universities,
in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Canada, in more diverse fields that include
Engineering, Computer Sciences and IT, MBA, and Fine Arts.
This study surveyed a pool of Palestinian undergraduate and graduate students that have received support
from HQSF, and completed their studies, according to academic concentration and specialization. The
study also examined the breakdown of unemployment levels by the field of specialization during the same
period. The comparison between the two data sets provided an approximation of the mismatch between
supply and demand in the Palestinian labor market. This information was then used to evaluate the current
scholarship offerings of HQSF and their alignment with the actual needs of the Palestinian labor market.
The demand-side assessment was complemented with interviews with various employers in the Palestinian
market to evaluate their preferences and needs in terms of hires. The interviews shed light on the needs
of the Palestinian marketplace along the lines of the sectors associated with the specializations under
consideration. Besides the academic qualifications required, the interviews shed light on the types of skill
sets needed to
make graduates more employable. Across all sectors, the lack of adequate “soft skills” was highlighted by
all interviewees. These skills comprise of communication, presentation, writing, and even language skills,
including both Arabic and English. This information greatly assisted in assessing the supply and demand
gaps given the current conditions, in addition to the analysis of various sources of secondary data from
the past three years.
The HQSF grantees were reached to assess their labor market outcomes through two sets of
questionnaires: one set for undergraduate grantees and one set for graduate grantees. The questionnaire
focused on three dimensions: job search, salary, and employment sector. The gathered data helped
inform the study of the specific academic backgrounds and specializations that gave the scholarship
recipients the most competitive advantages in the market
Effect of different plastic liners on the quality of fresh-cut Jew’s mallow leaves (Corchorus olitorius L.) during storage under different temperatures
No full textThe postharvest quality of Jew’s mallow was tested using two types of plastic liners and two temperatures, 4ºC and 10ºC. The plastic liners were normally sealed low density polyethylene and modified atmosphere package. Six quality parameters (weight loss, chlorophyll content, decay level, dryness level, yellowing level and chilling injury) were studied. It was found that Jew’s mallow leaves had a longer shelf life at 4ºC than at 10ºC. Modified atmosphere package liner showed a good result with respect to decay level. The shelf life was two weeks
On the Conditional Independence Implication Problem: A Lattice-Theoretic Approach
No full textA lattice-theoretic framework is introduced that permits the study of the conditional independence (CI) implication problem relative to the class of discrete probability measures. Semi-lattices are associated with CI statements and a finite, sound and complete inference system relative to semi-lattice inclusion is presented. This system is shown to be (1) sound and complete for saturated CI statements, (2) complete for general CI statements, and (3) sound and complete for stable
CI statements. These results yield a criterion that can be used to falsify instances of the implication problem and several heuristics are derived that approximate this “latticeexclusion” criterion in polynomial time. Finally, we provide experimental results that relate our work to results obtained from other existing inference algorithm
Provenance-aware Pervasive Computing in Clinical Applications
No full textPervasive computing applications bring together heterogeneous network-connected devices, services and resources to enable context-aware information integration. The increasing adoption of pervasive computing technology in the healthcare domain offers a healthcare model that delivers high quality service with fewer resources. In this paper, we briefly review the
existing pervasive healthcare solutions and propose a novel provenance-aware system design that can enhance the performance of such solutions by means of including provenance capture functionality. We argue that our system architecture can improve quality of clinical data, efficiency of its collection, and its integrating ability with other data sources. To demonstrate our system and explain its provenance capacity, we use a clinical research example in which patient’s condition is closely monitored in order to assess the safety and efficacy of medications and treatments prescribed to hi