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Copy right Idea Grou p Inc . Copy right Idea Grou p Inc . This paper considers a system for massive course generation. The output of this system is a course arranged in a hierarchical structure of chapters and pages. Each page consists of multimedia components such as text, sound, music, image, video, animation, and graphics. The system has a hypermedia capability that is built on top of open I...

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Biotechnology research and development in Egypt was addressed in the 2009 annual American University in Cairo (AUC) research conference held at the AUC new campus in Cairo, Egypt, that took place on April 5th 2009. The aim of the event was to present examples of ongoing biotechnology research activities in Egypt with focus on agricultural and biomedical biotechnology and to highlight the expans...

The pregnancy results of 17337 inseminations carried out in a dairy herd near Cairo over a period of 12 years were retrospectively analyzed in relation to environmental temperature and temperature-humidity index (THI). The overall average of pregnancy rates to all inseminations was significantly (P

1 King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 2 Beni-Suef University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Beni-Suef, Egypt 3 Cairo University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Giza, Egypt 4 King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 5 Cankaya...

The No. 1 Australian Stationary Hospital disembarked on the 23rd of January, and entrained for Cairo. On arrival we were sent to Maadi, an English suburb of Cairo, near which the Light Horse camp was situated ... Our life settled down into a dull routine, with the exception of my own, for, on the 10th of February, I developed pleurisy and bronchopneumonia, finally being sent to the No. 1 Genera...

Pesticides are used on a large scale for agricultural purposes. The adverse effects of pesticides on both human health and the environment are a matter of public concern. Thus both the actual state and residue levels of pesticides in agricultural products should be extensively monitored. One of the new classes of pesticide is the triazole derivatives, which are very effective fungicides. In thi...