Minbar is one of the most important additional architectural elements of any mosque. Its importance in emphasizing the Qiblah direction as well as the position of Imam in order to deliver sermon (khutba) leads to the flourish and interference of a fairly large number of handicrafts like wooden decorations and related features specific to the mosque architecture like tile works and stucco design...

conclusions urodynamic studies in children should be performed in preferred voiding position for each kid considering the culture and voiding habits. unfamiliar voiding position may turn the uroflowmetry to a stressful experience for child that make him uncooperative and cause misleading results. results comparison of uroflowmetric indexes between different genders and voiding positions showed ...

The majority of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) harbor intraluminal thrombi (ILTs). These thrombi have a biochemomechanically active role in aneurysm evolution [1]. Therefore, it is important to consider their influence when modeling aneurysm growth. A computational model of multi-layered ILT presented in Virag et al. [2] showed diverse effects that ILT has on the AAA enlargement. However, in...

Spasmodic (spastic) dysphonia (SD) is considered by some to be a neurologic syndrome and by others a symptom complex of multiple etiologies, neurologic and psychogenic. A case of a 26-year-old female psychiatric nurse with psychogenic SD (PSD) is presented. The dysphonia was alleviated within one session of voice therapy. Psychogenic etiology was established by the author, based on three diagno...

BACKGROUND Prolactin (PRL) secretion is quantifiable as mean, peak and nadir PRL concentrations, degree of irregularity (ApEn, approximate entropy) and spikiness (brief staccato-like fluctuations). HYPOTHESIS Distinct PRL dynamics reflect relatively distinct (combinations of) subject variables, such as gender, age, and BMI. LOCATION Clinical Research Unit. SUBJECTS Seventy-four healthy ad...

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. By H. T. Hyman, M.D. Second edition. (Pp. xxix t 716. 55s.) London: Lippincott, 1953. THIS is an unusual book and of a type which will be strange to British readers. It starts with a section in which are listed 1,585 symptoms and signs. Reference to any one of these directs the reader to some one of the 232 divisions of differential diagnosis, alphabetically arranged. Th...

Terms such as isochrony, syllable segregation, scanning speech and staccato-like rhythmic quality have been used to characterize the temporal regularity that may be a core feature of apraxia of speech. The present report describes a procedure to quantify temporal regularity in children with suspected apraxia of speech (sAOS). Conversational speech samples from 15 such children, together with sa...

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. By H. T. Hyman, M.D. Second edition. (Pp. xxix t 716. 55s.) London: Lippincott, 1953. THIS is an unusual book and of a type which will be strange to British readers. It starts with a section in which are listed 1,585 symptoms and signs. Reference to any one of these directs the reader to some one of the 232 divisions of differential diagnosis, alphabetically arranged. Th...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To study the epidemiology, presentation and laboratory findings of Chlamydia trachomatis pneumonia in hospitalized infants younger than 6 months. METHODS Between January 2001 and December 2005, infants younger than 6 months admitted to the children's medical center of Taipei Veterans General Hospital with the diagnosis of acute bronchiolitis, bronchopneumonia or pneumon...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Typewriter tinnitus, a symptom characterized by paroxysmal attacks of staccato sounds, has been thought to be caused by neurovascular compression of the cochlear nerve, but the correlation between radiologic evidence of neurovascular compression of the cochlear nerve and symptom presentation has not been thoroughly investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine wh...