We present the current status of Abu-MaTran (http://www.abumatran.eu), a 4-year project (January 2013–December 2016) on rapid development of machine translation for underresourced languages. It is funded under Marie Curie's Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways 2012 programme. This is a consortium-based project with 5 partners (4 academic and 1 industrial).

The precise detection of genotoxic effects induced by environmental contaminants is an essential part of any genetic toxicology screening programme. Fish, however, provides a sensitive monitor for environmental genotoxicity in aquatic environment. Mugil cephalus genome has now been employed in this study for detection of clastogenic and cellular lesions induced by aquatic contaminants in Abu-Qi...

BACKGROUND Worldwide, human brucellosis remains an important and widespread infection. In the past, there were limited data on the occurrence of human brucellosis in the United Arab Emirates and the reported incidence appeared to be low compared with similar areas. In 2009, a new web-based infectious disease surveillance system was introduced in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. This paper reports data...

The normal flora furnishes the host with ecological barriers that prevent pathogen attack while maintaining tissue homeostasis. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) constitute a highly relevant model of microbial adaptation in which some patients infected with Escherichia coli develop acute pyelonephritis, while other patients with bacteriuria exhibit an asymptomatic carrier state similar to bacteri...

Rapid population increase coupled with urbanization and industrialization has resulted in shortages of water in the Middle East. This situation is further exacerbated by global climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions. Recent research advocates that solutions to the global water security and scarcity crisis must involve water-energy nexus approaches. This means adopting policies and strat...

investigating a hadith narrated from the fifth shi‘a imam (abu ja‘far muhammad al-baqir) in two quranic commentaries of al-tibyan and majma‘al-bayan, the present essay finds its origin in al-masabih fi tafsir al-qur’an by abu al-qasim wazir maghribi (370-418 a.h.). wazir maghribi attributes that hadith to abu ja‘far in an ambiguous way. however, that hadith is neither narrated in shiite books o...

abu lu’lu was an iranian pov who killed the second caliph, omar, in 23 ah in the mosque of medina. he immediately killed himself afterward. centuries later, a shrine was built for him in kashan and he took on a new personality for the people who lived there. this essay describes the life and works of this character.

abu ahmad askari - the scholar, philologist and hadith teller - was living in askar makram city that unfortunately this city and his literary works have lost. he wished to meet the scientist – saheb ibn abad. but why the works of abu ahmad and his hometown scientists were lost while they caused the progress of literature especially in elementary literary criticism and created a dam against the ...

s of AAPA Poster and Podium Presentations Head shape of adult males as a possible indicator of economic changes in northern Jordan (1900-1978). A. Abu Dalou. Dept. of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia,