Nour Salman

Water Quality of Nour City Rivers

The goal of this research is recognition of species of pollution and a rough estimate of rate of transmitted pollution through northern Iran rivers to Caspian sea. Sampling from 3stations up-river, mid-river, and down-river in Lavij rood, Gland rood, and Sabze rood in a 6 month period from 2008/5/22 to 2008/11/22 coincides with warm, low rain, cold and rainy seasons and parameters as temperatur...

Endotoxin - tolerant Mice Have Mutations in Toll - like Receptor 4 ( Tlr 4 ) By Salman

Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) provokes a vigorous, generalized proinflammatory state in the infected host. Genetic regulation of this response has been localized to the Lps locus on mouse chromosome 4, through study of the C3H/HeJ and C57BL/10ScCr inbred strains. Both C3H/HeJ and C57BL/10ScCr mice are homozygous for a mutant Lps allele ( Lps d/d ) that confers hyporesponsiveness to LPS cha...

Risk Factors for Early Preterm Birth at King Salman Armed Force Hospital in 2010

AIM To investigate risk factors for early preterm birth. METHODS AND MATERIAL A retrospective comparative study was conducted at Tabuk, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the period from January to December 2010. Five hundred and ninety-five patient's files and delivery registry logbooks were reviewed, the following information was collected; demographic data, current and past obstetric histories...

The Similarities Between Mikahil Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

Historical Truth in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children: A Question of Perspective

In the post-modern literary tradition, an absence of universal truth replaces prior notions of one absolute truth, in terms of history as well as such notions as identity and society. Just as postmodernism dismantles the concept of absolute truth, Linda Hutcheon’s concept of the “narcissistic narrative” exemplifies the postmodern undermining of prior traditions: “The origins of the self-reflect...