The penultimate part of the Riḥla by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa recounts his return journey to Morocco from Middle East through North Africa—and another short tour in al-Andalus—between January 1348 and March 1350. At that time, all these territories plague pandemic known as Black Death was raging references it punctuate this work like a tired refrain. As numerous studies have shown borrowings adaptations oth...

Methods. "Ameijeiras Brother's" and "Cmdt. Manuel Fajardo" Hospitals enrolled 64 patients (multicentre retrospective cohort) with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage and rebleeding. The patients were admitted to the Stroke Unit (SU) between January 1, 2006, and December 1, 2013. Demographic, clinical, and radiological variables were examined in logistic regression to evaluate independent factor...

The outcome of 11046 infants, from 20 weeks' gestation, born to mothers of different ethnic origins within one London borough has been analysed. There was no difference in perinatal death rates between the Asian and white infants. Among those with mothers from Africa and the West Indies there were overall significantly more intrauterine deaths (26.8/1000 and 20.0/1000) and neonatal deaths (8.6/...

OBJECTIVES Inferior outcomes for black kidney transplant recipients in the USA may not be generalisable elsewhere. In this population cohort analysis, we compared outcomes for black kidney transplant patients in England versus New York State. DESIGN Retrospective, comparative, population cohort study utilising administrative data registries. SETTINGS AND PARTICIPANTS English data were deriv...

The article builds on Badious observation, that black is simultaneously characterized by lack and excess. In the Dark Souls trilogy “dialectics in black” are realized as a law of movement, which structures how game world acquired. games highlight series conflicting temporalities, play experience being-in-the-present. From perspective assemblage, this dynamic temporalities can also be conceptual...

Compared to White Americans, Black Americans are at higher risk of morbidity and mortality associated with chronic kidney diseases (1,2). Blacks are at 3-4 times higher risk of developing kidney failure compared to Whites. While only one in eight Americans is Black, one-third of kidney failures happen among Blacks (1). These figures make inequality in morbidity and mortality attributed to kidne...