BACKGROUND Most laboratory research on aggressive behavior has focused on intraspecific intermale aggression tests. The intraspecific confrontation is not available for the evaluation of female aggressiveness, since androgens are critical for maintenance of this behavior, whereas aggressive biting behavior toward inanimate objects (ABI) occurs in both males and females. NEW METHOD We propose ...

Objectives: This paper reviews the current literature on acquired brain injury (ABI) with a focus on ABI burden, importance of community integration, and community integration definitions suggested by the literature. Methods: Literature review Results: Acquired brain injury (ABI) is referred to a diverse range of disabilities resulted of injury in different parts of the brain. People with AB...

This is a study and translation of the section on pericarditis in Al Taisir book written by the Muslim physician Ibn Zuhr Avenzoar who lived and practiced in Eshbeelia nowadays Seville, Andalusia, Spain between 1091-1162 AD. Ibn Zuhr described the serous type of pericarditis as well as the pathological findings in fibrinous pericarditis. His description of the latter may also fit with the pictu...

OBJECTIVE Autism Behavior Inventory (ABI) is a new measure for assessing changes in core and associated symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in participants (ages: 3 years-adulthood) diagnosed with ASD. It is a web-based tool with five domains (two ASD core domains: social communication, restrictive and repetitive behaviors; three associated domains: mental health, self-regulation, and ch...

This work is the latest product of Albert Dietrich's investigations into the transmission and expansion of the Materia medica of Dioscorides in the medieval Islamic world; here he publishes, with German translation and commentary, a text by the renowned Andalusian physician Ibn Juljul (d. c. 384/994) describing 62 items not mentioned by Dioscorides. Such works were important contributions to th...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate the association between newly revealed abnormal ankle-brachial index (ABI) and clinical outcomes in patients with significant coronary artery stenosis. BACKGROUND Little is known about the prevalence and clinical implications of ABI in patients with no claudication or previous history of peripheral artery disease who undergo diagnostic coronary angiogr...

ABI-007, an albumin-bound, 130-nm particle form of paclitaxel, was developed to avoid Cremophor/ethanol-associated toxicities in Cremophor-based paclitaxel (Taxol) and to exploit albumin receptor-mediated endothelial transport. We studied the antitumor activity, intratumoral paclitaxel accumulation, and endothelial transport for ABI-007 and Cremophor-based paclitaxel. Antitumor activity and mor...

The purpose of presenting review was to share the medicinal and surgical contribution of Greco-Arabic Muslim scientists in diagnosis, surgery and natural medicines for the management and treatment of urolithiasis. The contribution of Al-Antaki, Al-Baghdadi, Al-Baitar, Al-Bokhari, Al-Razi, Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Zuhr was highlighted. The data compilation was preliminary and much more efforts ...

The authors regret that there is a mistake in the university name in one of the author’s affiliation. It is written over the article as ‘‘Al-ImamMuhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University’’. The correct one is as follows: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Al ImamMohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), P.O. BOX 90950, 11623 Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The authors ...

This paper introduces a new way of representing bankruptcy rules. These representations are used to show that the minimal overlap rule is a composition of the Ibn Ezra rule and the constrained equal losses rule, a result originally obtained by [1]. The residual minimal overlap rule is analysed as an alternative extension of the Ibn Ezra rule, by using a composition with the constrained equal aw...