investigating the heritage of the islamic historiography requires case studies of muslim historian`s works in an inductive way so as to be able to show the process and procedure of its appearance, formation, development and finally its stagnancy. the development of islamic historiography has occurred through the three following stages: the first century, the stage of oral narration; the second ...

AIM To evaluate the downstaging of rectal cancer after preop R +/- CT. METHODS 392 patients (pts) with rectal cancer were observed. Only 172 pts (58%) with II and III stage cancer of middle and lower third were examined. Enrol-led pts were 168: 52 of them received preop R +/- CT (32 RT, 20 R + CT). Preop R +/- CT group included 14 middle third cancers (73%), 38 lower third (17%). In this grou...

This paper presents the design of Sharpened three stage CIC filter for decimation. The proposed decimation filter has Cascaded-Integrator Comb filter as first stage, Sharpened Cascaded-Integrator Comb filter as second and third stage. The CIC filter at first stage operates at input sampling rate, sharpened second stage operates at lower rate as compared to first stage and sharpened third stage ...

From 1997 to 1999, we identified seven human cases of infection by fourth stage larvae of Pseudoterranova decipiens in Chile. All identified larvae were coughed up by the patients. Subjects were 10-55 years old; five were female. Some patients complained of coughing, expectoration, pharyngeal pain, nausea or anal and nasal pruritus. Larvae of three patients were coughed up from 36 h to 7 days a...