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BACKGROUND Over the last decade, the Internet has become an important source of health-related information for a wide range of users worldwide. Yet, little is known about the personal characteristics of Egyptian Internet users who search for online health information (OHI). OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to identify the personal characteristics of Egyptian OHI seekers and to determine any...

A total of 26 554 Egyptians was ascertained to study the incidence of consanguineous marriages. They were of different ages, different socioeconomic standards, and from different areas. There were 7646 from urban areas, 11 280 from suburban areas, and 7628 from rural areas. The incidence of consanguineous matings in the general population was found to be 28.96% with an average inbreeding coeffi...

Again, this can be viewed as a change of variables; on the left-hand side, there are n diagonal free parameters wjj and n(n−1) 2 off-diagonal free parameters wjk, j < k in the matrix W (the remaining offdiagonal parameters are fixed, as W is symmetric); on the right-hand side, there are n free parameters in the matrix Λ and (n − 1) + (n − 2) + . . . + 1 + 0 = n(n−1) 2 free parameters in the mat...

Rising wildfire suppression expetizditures on public land in the United States have led to increased scrutiny of wildfifne managemefzt practices. One area that has received particular attention is the Forest Service's increasing reliance on contract fire crews. Because a contract crew rate includes several costs that are not included in the wage costs of a Forest Service crew, it is difsicult t...

This third volume in our ISCANEE (International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economics) / ISLET (Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends) series places the phenomenon of interest-bearing debt in its historical context by tracing its dynamics from Sumer down through the neo-Babylonian epoch, and relating what is known about early Egypt, Nuzi and other neighboring regi...

ibn nabatah, one of the most popular poets in the mamluk period is compared with his contemporaries. in most issues, language is open to complain in his poems on various subjects, such as life, death, poverty and infectious diseases investigated note this article explains ibn nabatah poverty in food, housing, clothing and supplies, which the compositions and methods tailored to the tragic and s...