’abd al-raḥmān jabartī got involved in writing egypt’s incidents at a time when this country was about to enter developments due to which the traditional features of egypt would undergo some transformations. the transformative trends were originated from the fact that since nineteenth century new european thoughts in various cases, including historiography, which jabartī had been witnessing sin...

JCB • VOLUME 214 • NUMBER 2 • 2016 122 Growing up in the Boston area, Cliff Brangwynne was a kid with distinct interests. He recalls performing one of his fi rst experiments after watching a TV program on quantum mechanics: spending an afternoon bouncing a tennis ball off a wall in an attempt to observe quantum tunneling. Through high school, he read pop-science books about the weirdness of the...

Rich Lenski decided he was onto a good thing from his very first encounter with digital evolution. It all began when he used the technology in which artificial organisms in the form of computer code evolve independently by selfreplicating, mutating, and competing to re-examine an earlier study with bacteria. The original study had contradicted ‘some influential theory’ suggesting that random mu...

OBJECTIVE To explore the quality and safety of medicines in Canada. DESIGN A retrospective review of drug recalls and risk communication documents conveying issues relating to defective (ie, substandard and falsified) medicines. SETTING The Health Canada website search for drug recalls and risk communication documents issued between 2005 and 2013. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA Drug recalls and ris...

À la fin des années 2010 est diffusée saison 1 d’une websérie sur militants LGBT. Lors castings s’est posée question du choix comédiens, pour incarner personnages gays. Ce dépend de plusieurs facteurs. D’une part, les responsables ont chacun un regard propre ce qui fait personnage LGBT fictionnel, en lien avec leur sexualité, leurs expériences, normes genre qu’ils adoptent et attendent série. D...

Stanisław Płaza (1927–2006) is a leading figure among scholars writing about local noble parliamentary assemblies. created synthesis of our knowledge Crown The author introduces the reader to scholar, his life. Before finished school he found himself (in 1940) with whole family in Soviet Gulag, like many Poles, as result occupation over half Poland after Hitler-Stalin pact 1939. After war retur...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate how dietary data collected from 24-hour dietary recalls were incorporated into the development of a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (QFFQ) for the Apache in Arizona. DESIGN A cross-sectional study was first conducted using 24-hour dietary recalls to identify foods for inclusion on a QFFQ that would be used to evaluate a nutrition intervention. SETTING The ...

YES is a simplified stroke-based method for sorting Chinese characters. It is free from stroke counting and grouping, and thus much faster and more accurate than the traditional method. This paper presents a collation element table built in YES for a large joint Chinese character set covering (a) all 20,902 characters of Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs, (b) all 11,408 characters in the Complete ...

the safavid era (1501–1736 ad) was the threshold of spreading security and welfare in the iranian society. the era provided the chance for the talented to set steps for advancement. one of the characters in the history of persian medicine who achieved successes in the shadow of the existing peace and security during the safavid empire was hakim imad al-din mahmud shirazi . while he was minister...