T fact that most N in soils is associated with orNitrogen (N) immobilization in sterilized (abiotic) and non-steriganic matter has led many forest soil scientists and lized (biotic) O and A horizons was studied to determine the relative ecologists to assume that N retention in forest ecosysimportance of biotic and abiotic processes in N retention in forest tems is controlled almost exclusively ...

In the article, I present issues of presence, existential absence, and sense dignity a person with disability. these for first time attempt to show disability “from within”, perspective which am no stranger as myself disabled. The absence human have always fascinated me. Hence, in this text, they are “filtered” through my dramatic sometimes even traumatic personal experiences. conveying experie...

Joe William Trotter, Jr ’s sweeping yet concise book, Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America, presents a compelling, highly readable case that African American workers—far from being burden or threat to body politic—have been assets and contributors global capitalist development, urbanization, community political transformation transatlantic slave trade present millennium [ ]o...

Neonatal diabetes mellitus (NDM) can be transient (TNDM) or permanent (PNDM). Data on NDM from the Gulf region are limited to few studies on PNDM.The objective of this study was to describe the genetic and clinical spectrum of NDM and estimate its incidence in AbuDhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirate (UAE). Patients were identified from the pediatric diabetes clinics and sequencing of known...

Studies on the oxidation and bromination of citric acid to pentabromoacetone were reported as early as 1847 by Cahours (1). This reaction has since formed bhe basis for many of the procedures for determining citric acid. A qualitative test by Stahre (2), reported in 1897, was adapted fol quantitative analysis by Kunz (3). Pucher, Sherman, and Vickery (4) described the first microphotometric met...

The number of Internet users around the world has steadily grown, and this growth has provided the impetus and the opportunities for global and regional e-commerce. However with the Internet, different characteristics of the local environment, both infrastructural and socioeconomic, have created a significant level of variation in the acceptance and growth of e-commerce in different regions of ...

OBJECTIVE To study the etiology, clinical presentation and outcome of infantile onset diabetes mellitus (IODM). DESIGN Descriptive cohort study. Retrospective study from 1999-2007 and prospective from 2008-2012. SETTING The diabetic clinic at a Pediatric tertiary care referral institute in Chennai. METHODS All infants diagnosed to have diabetes at less than one year of age were studied. S...

FOR THE PAST 100 yr or so, the Flexner 2 2 model of medical education has been the dominant paradigm for undergraduate medical curricula (4). The recognition of disadvantages with this approach has prompted a growing movement of curricular reform, beginning with a focus on pedagogical format and, more recently, resulting in the transition to integrated curricula designed to foster a stronger co...