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International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 4(12), 2013 ; The aim of this paper is to uncover the reasons behind what so-called total failure in e-government project in Jordan. Reviewing the published papers in this context revealed that both citizens and employees do not understand the current status of this program. The majority of these papers measure the quality of e-services presented by e-government. However, according to the minister of Communication and Information Technologies (MOCIT), only three e-services are provided by this program up to writing this paper. Moreover, he decided to freeze the current working on e-government programme. These facts drove the authors to conduct this research. General review of the existing literature concerning e-government implementation in Jordan was applied, then a qualitative research was utilised to uncover the reasons behind the failure of the e-government program in Jordan. The collected data then was analysed using Strauss and Corbin's method of grounded theory. This paper illustrates that Jordanian government need to exert strenuous efforts to move from the first stage of e-government implementation into an interactive one after fourteen years of launching the program, considering that only three e-services are presented up to October 2013. Reasons behind the failure of e-government in Jordan have also been identified. ; http://thesai.org/Downloads/Volume4No12/Paper_23-The_Failure_of_E-government_in_Jordan_to_Fulfill_Potential.pdf

Mon article porte sur les pèlerinages et les sanctuaires chrétiens du Proche- Orient du IVe au XVIIe siècle. Il propose une réflexion en quatre temps : premièrement, il vise à tracer l'historique de cette pratique depuis son apparition ; il a ensuite pour but de réfléchir sur l'acception théologique de cette pratique d'un point de vue chrétien depuis le IVe siècle, date de reconnaissance officielle du christianisme par l'Empire. II cherche, en troisième lieu, à décrire les différents rituels et pratiques accomplis par les pieux pèlerins lors de leurs visites des lieux saints, et à répertorier finalement quelques lieux saints de la région visités depuis l' Antiquité tardive en passant par le Moyen Âge jusqu'au XVIIe siècle, durant la période ottomane.2 Évidemment, l'étude ne sera pas consacrée à la Palestine qui a fini par accaparer à elle seule I 'appellation de Terra Sancta. Elle privilégiera, dans le cadre de sa dernière partie, la présentation d'autres lieux saints visités en marge du grand pèlerinage, que j'ai désignés dans deux publications antérieures par « lieux saints secondaires »

To all readers who followed Hawiiyat, the University of Balamand Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from its first issue, I have the pleasure to offer them this Florilege issue after an interruption of four years. It contains mainly philosophical, literary and political studies, as well as research in other domains written by colleagues from the University of Balamand, the Lebanese University, the University of AI-Yarrnouk, the University of Jordan, and the University of Mascara in Algeria. These articles, unveil, in some way, the basic interests of our Balamand Faculty as well as the interests of all those who have participated in this volume. It truly merits our attention. The study by Ghomari Taibi focuses on the current political situation in the Arab world and defends, in its interpretation of the events that are shaking Arab societies, the thesis of "social disintegration". This social disintegration has made those societies open to the ideas and actions of all sorts of adventurers and manipulators. The researches done by Mazen Naous, Peter Williams, Nada Sayed-Ziade and Frank Darwiche analyze various academic questions posed by the literary works that they examine in order to understand and rediscover the authors. Dealing with the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson and of Imru' a1-Qais; dealing with the City in French contemporary poetry; dealing with a novel of Vladimir Nabokov or with the problem of "god" in Heidegger's philosophy and the Sufism of Ibn' Arabi , these studies, written with ardour and passion, deserve our admiration. They make us love the works and understand the said authors by giving us profound insight into the human soul. The article by Charbel Dagher, which focuses on the relationship between aesthetics and citizenship, is astonishing and enticing when it relates the aesthetic expressions to political citizenship. Finally, the article of Rajai Khanji and Muhammad Saraireh on the strategies of translation gives new insight into the difficulties of the work of the translators, the go-betweens or passeurs of cultures. The melange of trilingual studies of this ISlh issue of Hawliyat is innovative. I am sure it will elicit reflection and debate. Returning to its annual rendez-vous, Hawliyat is committed, beyond unforeseeable events of the time and the world, to remaining, in the forthcoming issues, a major centre of scientific university research and intellectual life in the pure humanist tradition: the one of freedom of the spirit and intellectual independence.

Este texto propõe algumas questões sobre o uso do conceito de burguesia interna para a análise do bloco no poder nos governos petistas. Partimos da teoria poulantziana para pensar a reprodução interiorizada e induzida do capital-imperialismo nas formações sociais dependentes através da atuação de aparelhos de hegemonia que operam associando a burguesia brasileira à estadunidense. Especificamente, investigamos as movimentações e posicionamentos da burguesia brasileira em relação à política externa e às reformas neoliberais nos governos do PT. Para isso, utilizamos como fonte o arquivo de telegramas enviados pela Embaixada e Consulados dos EUA no Brasil para Washington e vazados pela WikiLeaks. A partir disso, observamos, ao contrário do esperado de uma burguesia interna neodesenvolvimentista, 1) a formação de consensos burgueses em favor da aproximação ao capital-imperialismo estadunidense e contra as políticas de coalizões sul-sul e de protecionismo da indústria e dos recursos naturais estratégicos, e 2) a unidade do conjunto burguês em torno do ajuste fiscal e da desestatização. Por fim, debatemos a centralidade das tensões entre as diferentes escalas de concentração e centralização do capital (isto é, entre o capital monopolista e o não-monopolista) para analisar os fracionamentos burgueses no período.

This study examines whether community-level social disorganization and community engagement initiatives are associated with public high school performance. Analyzing data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) School Attendance Boundary Survey (SABS), a latent variable measuring community-level social disorganization is examined within a structural equation model for 302 traditional public high schools in Florida. The study finds a statistically significant and large negative association between community-level social disorganization and a latent variable representing Florida Department of Education performance metrics. Correspondingly, the recognition of receiving the Florida Five Star School award for satisfying recommended community engagement criteria is positively associated with high school performance with social disorganization factors simultaneously considered. This research hopes to further provide an emphasis for recognizing and engaging community within the context of addressing disparities in public education performance.

With the end of 60 years since the termination of the British Mandate on Palestine and the first round of failure to effect a two-state solution of the conflict over Palestine, both sides to the conflict are no closer to a just, durable and peaceful solution. The peace process proved to be an end in itself, to be a fetish which commands elaborate rituals but one which tenders no genuine faith. There is a simple reason for this, namely, that the more powerful side to the conflict, blinded by the supremacy of its military might, has been pursuing a solution that reflects the imbalance of power, pure and simple. Like individuals who are immune to learning, there are also peoples who never learn. History teaches us that there are only two alternative bases for conflict resolution, each with entirely different prospects for stability and durability: (1) a basis which reflects the balance of brute force and weight of conquest; and, this is doomed to be unstable and short-lived; (2) a basis which reflects fidelity to moral norms and international rules of law; and, this is the basis which assures long-term stability and durability.

Pituitary adenomas are the third most common benign intracranial tumor seen in neurosurgical practice. They represent ≥ 15 % of all primary intracranial tumors with 25 % prevalence as reported in autopsy series. Advances in biomedical assays, imaging studies support their diagnosis and tailor their management. The direct endonasal transsphenoidal surgery is the recommended intervention for adenoma resection in more than 95 %. The safety and efficacy of this intervention was enhanced by microsurgery and more recently by the introduction of neuronavigation, assisted endoscopy and intraoperative MRI. Anticipation of clinical, biochemical, radiological and surgical pitfalls by a multidisciplinary team is of paramount importance in improving treatment and preventing potential complications.