This paper demonstrates that the figure of St. Francis Assisi, as expounded by Bonaventure in his work Legenda Major (Major Legend), cannot be understood without certain philosophical and theological keys. Following an expository methodology, we point to Saint a aesthetic model. In this sense, focus on five characterisations found Legend, introducing their meaning, well significance Bonaventure...

1University of Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, Department of Hematology, Lahore, Pakistan 2University of Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Lahore, Pakistan 3Quaid-i-Azam University Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Islamabad, Pakistan 4University of Health Sciences of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, Laho...

Naeem Akhtar MS Scholar; Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal, Pakistan Saqib Ali and Muhammad Salman MS Scholar; Department of Management Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University Sub Campus Sahiwal, Pakistan Asad-Ur-Rehman MS Scholar; Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal, Pakistan Aqsa Ijaz BBA...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the cause of high morbidity and mortality worldwide, inflicting around one million people in Pakistan alone. The HCV genomic RNA harbors conserved structural elements that are indispensable for its replication. The 3' untranslated region (UTR) contains several of these elements essentially involved in regulating the major steps of the viral life cycle. OB...

context from the 1970s till the mid 1990s, hepatitis b was the most common etiological factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) in pakistan. afterwards, a shift in hcc etiology was observed with a steady rise in hepatitis c virus (hcv) related hcc cases. hcv-3a, which is the most prevalent genotype, is also most frequent in hcv related hcc. there was an increase in the proportion of non-b non-...

background: a known species lutztrema (lutziella) microacetabularae rhode, 1966 is being described for the first time from pakistan. this species is characterized by having body long and slender, oral sucker subterminal, acetabulum smaller than oral sucker lying in anterior third of the body, pharynx small, esophagus promi-nent which become gradually wider and bifurcates in to two rudimentary c...

Microscopic Feature Extraction Method Muhammad Sharif Department of Computer Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, 47040, Pakistan Email: [email protected] Mudassar Raza Department of Computer Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, 47040, Pakistan Email: [email protected] Sajjad Mohsin Department of Computer Sciences, COMS...

1Sindh AIDS Control Programme, Karachi, Pakistan. 2Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan. 3BRIDGE, Karachi, Pakistan. 4TB Control Programme, Karachi, Pakistan. 5Juvenile Jail, Karachi, Pakistan. ABSTRACT Jail inmates may be at increased risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB). We studied 386 detainees (mean age 17.7 years) in Karachi juvenile jail to determine the prevalence of TB...