Nowhere are the barriers to a functional health infrastructure more clearly on display than in the Goma region of Democratic Republic of Congo. Kaboru et al. report poorly integrated services for HIV and TB in this war-torn region. Priorities in conflict zones include provision of security, shelter, food, clean water and prevention of sexual violence. In Goma, immediate health priorities includ...

alī ibn ḥamzah al-kisā’ī is one of the seven reciters of the qur’an (ghurā’ al-sab‘ah) and the chief of the grammar school (maktab al-naḥwī) in kūfah. he was precepted by more than twenty-five grammar and recitation teachers to the extent that none of his teachers became as successful as him. most of his disagreement with other reciters returns to the verbal rules which has nothing to do with t...

nowhere are the barriers to a functional health infrastructure more clearly on display than in the goma region of democratic republic of congo. kaboru et al. report poorly integrated services for hiv and tb in this war-torn region. priorities in conflict zones include provision of security, shelter, food, clean water and prevention of sexual violence. in goma, immediate health priorities includ...

 In this paper, we consider a flexible skew-generalized normal distribution. This distribution is denoted by $FSGN(/lambda _1, /lambda _2 /theta)$. It contains the normal, skew-normal (Azzalini, 1985), skew generalized normal (Arellano-Valle et al., 2004) and skew flexible-normal (Gomez et al., 2011) distributions as special cases. Some important properties of this distribution are establi...

Mahmoud M. Ayoub has developed an Islamic model of redemption in his works particularly the Redemptive Suffering Islam. Assuming that is fulfillment through suffering, proposed alternative within context intercession (shafā’ah) Twelver Shī’īsm. In opinion, direct reward sufferings and martyrdom Holy Family (ahl al-bayt) so they can rescue their devotees from hell God’s punishment by this interc...

The subject of the Imam’s nature and scope knowledge, along with his other attributes, have been studied early on since discussions Imamate were ushered in Islamic world. Shia scholars, particular, adopted a variety approaches to topic put forward different, at times contradictory, views. It is thus befitting study more closely from comprehensive view by employing effective statements arguments...

In this paper we introduce the SpeakCorrect system which is a Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system for native Arabic students of English. The system is designed with optimized performance for the target users group. It is L1 dependent system and only the frequent pronunciation errors of native Arabic speakers are examined. Several adaptation techniques such as Speaker Adaptive Tr...

the sources have made little reference to ḥusayn b. rūḥ nawbakhtī (d. 326/938), a relative of nawbakhtī household, who was known to the imāmī shī‘as as the third deputy of the twelfth imam, or they have made no reference to his personality dimensions. the issue this article deals with is whether his specific deputyship has been addressed in the earlier sources including the historical, theologi...