In 1278, Yemeni troops conquered the city of øafār (Fig. 1). They were sent by the Rasūlid sultan al-Muúaffar, son of the founder of the Rasūlid dynasty which dominated South-West Arabia until the middle of the fifteenth century.(1) The Rasūlid court historian al-¿azrajī describes the victory: “And when the sultan, may God have mercy on him, conquered the city of øafār (...) and Sālim son of Id...

Seyed Mohammadreza Hashemian, Robert G. Martindale , Hamidreza Jamaati , Ali Amirsavadkouhi , Salahaddin Mahmudi Azer , Mahdi Shadnoush , Seyed Hossein Ardehali , Atabak Najafi , Arezoo Ahmadi , Seyyed Reza Seyyedi , Ata Mahmoodpoor , Omid Moradi , Saeed Abbasi , Saeed Hosseini , Reza Shahrami , Saeed Abdi , Zahra Sepehri , Babak Omranirad , Seyed Amir Mohajerani , Pejman Rohani , Aliakbar Sayy...

All the ITER superconductors are tested as short length samples in the SULTAN test facility at CRPP. Eighteen TF conductor samples with small layout variations were tested since February 2007 with the aim of verification of the design and qualification of the manufacturers. The sample assembly and the measurement techniques at CRPP are discussed. Starting in 2010, another test facility for ITER...

Janet Abu-Lughod's most recent book, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities (1999), represents an impressive accomplishment. Framed with reference to contemporary debates on globalization and world cities, the book articulates a powerful appeal for a more historically nuanced perspective on contemporary forms of urban restructuring. Whereas scholars such as Anthony King (1991a,...

continents convened in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E between October 21–23 2013 at the First international conference on waterpipe tobacco smoking to review the evidence and recommend actions to curb the waterpipe tobacco pandemic. A declaration was issued on October 23, 2013. In Building on the Declaration of the 1st Conference adopted in Abu Dhabi, a second declaration was issued following the 2nd Confere...

BACKGROUND Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) should only be treated in cases of pregnancy or in-patients undergoing urologic procedures; however, unnecessary treatment of ABU is common in clinical practice. OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors for unnecessary treatment and to assess the impact of an educational intervention focused on these risk factors on treatment of ABU. DESIGN Quasi-experime...

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate the knowledge and attitude of women living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and their associated health benefits and risks. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed among 220 women aged 20-70 years old in the UAE mainly in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. The survey included 21 items; socio-demographic ...

The NMR characteristics of [14-38]Abu, a synthetic variant of BPTI that is partially folded in aqueous buffer near neutral pH, support a model of early folding events which begin with stabilization of the nativelike, slow exchange core [Barbar, E., Hare, M., Daragan, V., Barany, G., and Woodward, C. (1998) Biochemistry 37, 7822-7833 (1)]. In partially folded [14-38]Abu, urea denaturation profil...

To study the structural and functional roles of the cysteine residues at positions 36, 41, and 46 in the transmembrane domain of phospholamban (PLB), we have used Fmoc (N-(9-fluorenyl)methoxycarbonyl) solid-phase peptide synthesis to prepare alpha-amino-n-butyric acid (Abu)-PLB, the analogue in which all three cysteine residues are replaced by Abu. Whereas previous studies have shown that repla...

1Department of Forensic Medicine and Medical Ethics, Research Center for Behavioral Disorders and Substance Abuse, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. 2Department of Community Medicine, Research Center for Behavioral Disorders and Substance Abuse, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. *Corresponding Author E-mail:[email protected] Rhabdomyolysis Syndrome in...