this paper is a comparative study of legal aspect of islamic securities (sukuk), between iran (as shia fiqh) malaysia (as the first country that issued sukuk based on sonni fiqh) and england (as a chief western country in sukuk). results indicate many similarities between iran and malaysia rules despite specifications with england rules. different in definition of contract, asset valuation, lim...

1661 vitamin B12 than the control foetuses, showing that vitamin-Bl2 deficiency in the mother may seriously affect the vitamin-B12 stores of the foetus. It seems probable, therefore, that infants born of vitamin-B12-deficient mothers will start life with defective body stores of this vitamin, even though cord blood levels may not be very low. As was to be expected the levels in the breast milk ...

The six states that make up New England (NE) are Vermont (VT), New Hampshire (NH), Maine (ME), Massachusetts (MA), Connecticut (CT), and Rhode Island (RI). Cases where speakers in these states exhibit differences from other American speakers and from each other will be discussed in this chapter. The major sources of phonological information regarding NE dialects are the Linguistic Atlas of New ...

Medicine in Medieval England, by C. H. TALBOT, London, Oldbourne, 1967, pp. 222, 35s. Od. The author of this book, Dr. Talbot, is medievalist at the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. He has produced a book which will appeal to both expert and non-expert-medical or otherwise. The book is a hardback of 222 pages with a table of contents, an index and a bibliography, which lists books...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the impact on mortality of the heatwave in England and Wales during July and August 1995 and to describe any difference in mortality impact between the Greater London urban population and the national population. DESIGN Analysis of variation in daily mortality in England and Wales and in Greater London during a five day heatwave in July and August 1995, by age, sex, ...

OBJECTIVES We examined cross-national differences in perceptions of age discrimination in England and the United States. Under the premise that the United States has had age discrimination legislation in place for considerably longer than England, we hypothesized that perceptions of age discrimination would be lower in the United States. METHODS We analyzed data from two nationally representa...

OBJECTIVE Rates of premature mortality have been higher in Scotland than in England since the 1970s. Given the known association of diet with chronic disease, the study objective was to identify and synthesise evidence on current and historical differences in food and nutrient intakes in Scotland and England. DESIGN A rapid review of the peer-reviewed and grey literature was carried out. Afte...

BACKGROUND Scotland's mortality rate is higher than England and Wales' and this difference cannot be explained by differences in area-level socio-economic deprivation. However, studies of this 'Scottish effect' have not adjusted for individual-level measures of socio-economic position nor accounted for country of birth; important as Scottish born living in England and Wales also have high morta...