Muhsin Sayyid Mahdi (1926–2007)

Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language

10.1 The forbidden experiment Language and culture separate humans from all other species. No human group lacks either, which must mean that both are deeply seated in human nature. What are the essential ingredients of these two most human of attributes? Our central task as linguists is to try to answer this question for language. One strategy for tackling this problem is to trace all existing ...

2 Lyases JASSEM G . MAHDI

Rania Al-Mahdi ́s thesis 25.10.15

The atypical MAP kinases ERK3 and ERK4 are activated by phosphorylation of a single serine residue lying within the signature sequence S-E-G in the activation loop. Thus far theregulation of ERK3 and ERK4 phosphorylation and thus activity is poorly understood. Herewe have screened mammalian dual-specificity MAP kinase phosphatases for their ability tointeract with ERK3 and ERK4 and ...

The Oracle of Hizbullah: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah

This is the full text (excluding notes) of the study by Martin Kramer, “The Oracle of Hizbullah: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah,” in R. Scott Appleby, ed., Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders in the Middle East (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), pp. 83-181. Refer to the paper version for the 324 footnotes. Much of the study, with notes, can be previewed at Amazon and...

Schedulability of Asynchronous Real - Time Concurrent Objects 1 Mohammad Mahdi

We present a modular method for schedulability analysis of real time distributed systems. We extend the actor model, as the asynchronous model for concurrent objects, with real time using timed automata, and show how actors can be analyzed individually to make sure that no task misses its deadline. We introduce drivers to specify how an actor can be safely used. Using these drivers we can verif...