As a country, the United Arab Emirates has developed very rapidly from a developing country with a largely nomadic population, to a modern and wealthy country with a Western lifestyle. This economic progress has brought undoubted social benefits and opportunities for UAE citizens, including a high and increasing life expectancy. However, rapid modernization and urbanization have contributed to ...

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Syarahan-syarahan Hikam Abu Madyan ialah karya yang mengandungi panduan perjalanan kerohanian ahli Tasawuf. Syarahan ini telah dilakukan terhadap dikarang oleh Syeikh Shu`ayb al-Maghribi. Namun begitu kajian tentangnya masih belum banyak dilakukan. Oleh itu, bertujuan menjelaskan biografi pengarang Madyan, penisbahan kepada beliau dan karya-karya dalam kategori syarah bagi ini. Pengkaji akan me...

BACKGROUND Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections. However, many cases treated as hospital-acquired CAUTI are actually asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU). Evidence-based guidelines recommend that providers neither screen for nor treat ABU in most catheterized patients, but there is a significant gap between these guidelines and cli...

INTRODUCTION Urinary tract infection (UTI) occurs in 1.1% of girls and 1.4% of boys during the first year of life. Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) is usually detected incidentally in 0.9% of girls and 2.5% of boys at this age. The aim of the study was to assess the usefulness of measurement of pro-inflammatory urine interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-8 concentrations and anti-inflammatory transforming gr...

primary bud necrosis in grapevine is a physiological disorder observed in the compound buds. this study was conducted to investigate the anatomical changes in cv. askari grapevine in winter dormant buds. bud samples were taken from askari grapevine at sisakht vineyards, south-western of iran. compound buds were dissected and assessed under a binocular microscope at 10-40x magnification and a di...

Performance comparison of phenotypic and molecular methods for detection and 1 differentiation of Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis 2 3 Suhail Ahmad*, Ziauddin Khan, Mohammad Asadzadeh, Ajmal Theyyathel, and Rachel Chandy 4 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, P. O. Box 24923, Kuwait 5 6 Running title: Detection of C. albicans and C. dubliniensis 7 8 9 *Co...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of additional acid etching and curing mechanism (light-curing or self-curing) of a composite resin on the dentin bond strength and compatibility of one-step self-etching adhesives. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixteen human permanent molars were randomly divided into eight groups according to the adhesives used (All-Bond Universal: ABU, Clear...