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The aim of the paper is to investigate of differences in driving behavior between Greece and Palestine (West Bank Area) via applied of AUTH drivers' questionnaire (ADQ) on different categories of drivers through the analysis of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) based on the structure of four factors. Data were collected from the driver' participants randomly for each country to assess the diversity of drivers behavior and performance. The analysis stage included descriptive analysis, statistical tests, EFA, and logistic regression analysis. The study found that there was a difference in the distribution of the participants according to socio-demographic data and was statistically significant between their responses. The EFA results supported the distinction between the behaviors of drivers in both countries depending on the factors that emerged. The study suggested the names of the factors considering to the question groups, which included commitment of traffic rules and safe driver behavior, driving errors and ordinary violation, weather conditions and daytime, and essential supplies and financial status. The study concluded that road accidents are affecting due to the diversity of drivers' countries. In addition, the ADQ is appropriate to use and analysis of data according to the proposed set of factors and for evaluating the difference between countries in terms of driver behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents evidence for feasting in the late Iron Age I Philistine culture from a circumscribed locale in Area A at the site of Tell es-Safi/Gath. The remains are characterized by architectural features, installations and rubbish dumps containing a rich array of animal bones, symbolic objects, and a series of unique installations all dating to the tenth and eleventh centuries B.C.E. These activities are informed by parallels from Mycenaean Late Bronze Age feasting events, though at Tell es-Safi/Gath they may have served a different purpose, specifically, the maintenance and promotion of Philistine cultural identity through the adoption of behaviors and symbols from the Aegean past by portions of the Philistine population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how grassroots refugee-activists and 'solidarians' in Greece articulate a collectivist political vision and praxis of care through an expanding network of social obligation that upends narrow understandings of refugees' 'basic' rights and moral obligations of care. The refugees draw on a wide range of universalising collectivist frames including Islamic, Anarcho-Marxist and Palestinian-liberationist frames to articulate visions of solidarity and nurture trust and mutual care amongst refugees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]