L and easy to read, Mary Guinan’s account of her career as an epidemiologist accomplishes its goal, “To help readers better understand and value the public health system that exists for the protection of the nation’s health and for the prevention of disease and injury.” From the early definition of the “hole in the sole,” the epidemiologist’s trademark, to the description of the Sherlock Holmes...

The 9th Annual Dubai Medical Education Symposium was a professional development opportunity for medical educators, held at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Academic Medical Center Auditorium at the Dubai Healthcare City under the patronage of Haj Saeed Ahmed Al Lootah. The ceremony was formally inaugurated by, Mr. Saleh Saeed Lootah, Vice Chairman, Executive Board, Dubai Medical College on May 30, 2015....

Je zn??m??m faktem, ?že onemocnÄ?n?­ zp??soben?Š koronavirem nebo jinak ??ečeno COVID-19 se i nad??le ???­???­ cel??m svÄ?tem, a to prost??ednictv?­m na??ich společensk??ch aktivit. U osob, kter?Š sleduj?­ zpravodajstv?­ zejm?Šna soci??ln?­ch m?Šdi?­ on-line statut??, m???že vyvol??vat pocity paniky. Pandemie st??le p??edstavuje obrovskou hrozbu pro n???? ka?ždodenn?­ ?život, na??i zdravotn?­...

statement of problem: amalgam is the most widely used dental restorative material. however, because of continuous low-level release of mercury from amalgam fillings, its safety has been questionable. purpose: the aim of this study was the evaluation of concentration of mercury in saliva before and after amalgam fillings and its relation with numbers and surfaces of amalgam fillings. materials a...

We construct a locally finite graph and a bounded geometry metric space which do not admit a quasi-isometric embedding into any uniformly convex Banach space. Connections with the geometry of c0 and superreflexivity are discussed. The question of coarse embeddability into uniformly convex Banach spaces became interesting after the recent work of G. Kasparov and G. Yu, who showed the coarse Novi...

To discuss the global efforts needed to detect and control emerging infections, I will begin with a personal experience. In 1987, a large epidemic of meningococcal meningitis occurred during the haj, the annual pilgrimage of Moslems to Mecca. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent a team of epidemiologists and laboratorians to Kennedy Airport to meet the thousands of pilgrims...

The number of extremity amputations resulting from workplace mishaps, traffic accidents and other incidents has shown an increasing trend over time, although the importance of safety management and the prevention of such accidents is fully recognized. Since precise and complex motion may be very difficult in the daily activities of amputees, the development of prosthetic systems is necessary to...

using and calling on traditional heritage of the past is considered the most important literary techniques in contemporary arabic poetry, that unites the past with present, in fact the contemporary poet by calling the heritage of the past achieved rich and inexhaustible source, and the calling of traditional characteristics is considered one of the literary techniques. the character of “imam hu...

background: in this study, the chemical quality of water in some sub-basins of gamasiab river has been investigated for a long term planning of water consuming in the region . methods: the area is about 11 x10 3 km 2 , located in ramadan and kermanshah, the two western regions of iran. in this regard the results of the water samples, which were collected on the outlet of the 13 hydrometrical st...