The Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, is famous worldwide due to the magnificent temple of Heliopolitan Jupiter at Baalbek. In recent years, new research revived interest in unsolved problems posed by Baalbek monuments, including original dating and construction phases, relationships with landscape, nature cult practiced. a preliminary paper, we used archaeoastronomy propose that project Temple was unifie...

Sir, Scopulariopsis, which is a genus of non-dermatophytic filamentous fungi, contains a number of common sa-prophytic fungi found in soil, vegetables, air, and organic waste. To date, eight species of Scopulariopsis have been reported to cause human infections. Of these, S. brevi-caulis is the most common; although is not generally considered to be a skin pathogen, the organism is isolated rel...

The issues of digital preservation of shapes and internal structures of historical and cultural objects are discussed. An overview of existing approaches to computer modeling of shapes is presented and corresponding problems are considered. We propose a digital preservation paradigm quite different from the currently popular "scan and mesh" approach yielding visible surface models. Our approach...

In this research project we created systems that can scan images and video to locate items of interest. For example, such a system should be able to scan a travel documentary for images of distinct locations and objects, like ``Buddhist temples'', ``gothic cathedrals'', or ``statues on horseback''. We believe that by leveraging our existing work in this area, we can play a key role in setting t...

(1) The patient, a man, had had dark brown hair until the age of 25. Discoloration progressed until at the age of 30 the scalp hair was snow white. Other body hair was unaffected and he remained in good health. At the age of 53 he was admitted to hospital after an accident and was found to be anaemic. The results of investigations, including jejunal biopsy, were consistent with adult coeliac di...