In December 2006, a 7 year-old boy from Baghdad (Iraq) attended our Urology outpatient clinic, Baqiyatallah Hospital, Tehran, Iran, with gross hematuria of one month duration. Hematuria was painless and intermittent, and was accompanied by clots. The patient also had a history of dysuria, frequency and urinary retention for 1 month. Family history was unremarkable. Urine was sterile on culture....

In this paper we discuss the applicability of the knowledge representation and reasoning language AnsProlog (Answer Set Programming) for the design and implementation of a query answering system (QAS) for homeland security. We discuss our work to date on using AnsProlog to axiomatize the travel domain. We illustrate how it can be used to represent defaults, causal relations, and other types of ...

To compare the neurotic characteristics of two samples of Iraqi medical students previously assessed in BAGHDAD at 1980, 1990, respectively with a similar study carried out at 2001 using the same CCEI instrument, The three decades representing different socioeconomic era revealed decline of total mean scores than that of the previous two studies and that males scored higher than females in all ...

Ammar Hussein Mutlag 1,2,*, Azah Mohamed 1 and Hussain Shareef 3 1 Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia; [email protected] 2 College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Techniques, Middle Technical University, 10022 Baghdad, Iraq 3 Department of Electrical En...