In the present study, Biomphalaria snails collected from five Egyptian governorates (Giza, Fayoum, Kafr El-Sheikh, Ismailia and Damietta), as well as reference control Biomphalaria alexandrina snails from the Schistosome Biological Supply Center (SBSC) (Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Egypt), were subjected to species-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays to identify the collected...

Mona El-Sheikh and her colleagues have assembled an impressive series of studies for this monograph. To date, researchers interested in the consequences of marital conflict on children have focused primarily on the main effects of psychological variables. Although these studies have been invaluable in helping us to better understand risk and resiliency factors associated with children’s exposur...

The year 2022 offered the international community an opportunity to take concrete steps in reducing impacts of climate change. In November 2022, State Parties United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Paris Agreement, as well representatives organizations, corporations, civil society activists met Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt discuss current state change measures that are capable prot...

To be considered for publication, solutions should be received by September 1, 2011. 1866. Proposed by Sadi Abu-Saymeh and Mowaffaq Hajja, Mathematics Department, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan. Let ABC be a triangle, and L and M points on AB and AC, respectively, such that AL = AM. Let P be the intersection of BM and CL. Prove that PB = PC if and only if AB = AC. 1867. Proposed by Ángel Pla...

ÇIĞDEM USUL AFŞAR1, FERYAL KARACA2, MERAL GÜNALDI3, İSMAIL OĞUZ KARA4, MELEK ERKIŞI4, BERKSOY ŞAHIN4, BERNA BOZKURT DUMAN5, SEMRA PAYDAŞ4, VEHBI ERCOLAK6 1Ministry of Health, Istanbul Education and Research Hospital, Department of Medical Oncology, Istanbul 2Adana Numune Education and Research Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Adana 3Bakirkoy Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital...

BACKGROUND Two distinct trends are emerging with respect to how data is shared, collected, and analyzed within the bioinformatics community. First, Linked Data, exposed as SPARQL endpoints, promises to make data easier to collect and integrate by moving towards the harmonization of data syntax, descriptive vocabularies, and identifiers, as well as providing a standardized mechanism for data acc...

In order to interpret experimental Omics-data, ecotoxicologists are faced with an array of disconnected bioinformatics databases and algorithms. These include tools for microarray analysis, gene annotation, functional gene set enrichment, and network analysis. Drawing together these Web tools and resources is a frequently labour-consuming technical exercise in identifying links across database ...

PURPOSE To assess the prevalence of allergic conjunctivitis in Gambia and to determine its epidemiologic features, seasonal variations and associated ocular and systemic conditions. METHODS Records of patients clinically diagnosed with allergic conjunctivitis between April 2007 and March 2008 were reviewed. Variables including age, sex, date of presentation, and systemic and ocular findings w...