OBJECTIVE: Determine whether dexamethasone treatment added to salbutamol reduces time to readiness for discharge in patients with bronchiolitis and possible asthma. METHODS:We compared efficacy and safety of dexamethasone, 1 mg/kg, then 0.6 mg/kg for 4 more days, with placebo for acute bronchiolitis in patients with asthma risk, as determined by eczema or a family history of asthma in a first-d...

Escherichia coli O157:H7 can enter into a viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state under stress conditions. Pathogens in this dormant state may escape detection if conventional methods are employed, and potentially pose serious threats to human health. Studies have shown that many intervention and preservation processes that are commonly used in the food industry may instead induce a VBNC state ra...

non-commercial fish species of shrimp trawls were studied monthly from october 2005 to september 2006 in mahshahr creeks (darvish, doragh, bihad, ghazaleh, ghanam, zangi and patil). the trawl nets had a cod-end mesh size of 24mm. total catch was 6431 individuals weighing 55.5kg, and included 14 species of non-commercial fish species belonging to 14 families. the caught shrimp species were from ...

Inspired by the tenets of postcolonial ecocriticism, theories settler colonialism, and indigenous ecologies, this study examines connection Mahmoud Darwish establishes between colonized people natural elements in his poem “The Red Indian’s Penultimate Speech to White Man” while making reference Native American oral traditions Chief Seattle’s speech. This article argues that Darwish’s expresses ...

This study analyses the depiction of European nature by an Egyptian poet, Ali Mahmoud Taha. Taha spent a considerable period his life travelling across cities and provinces Europe, noting in particular, manifestations so different from own country. These manifestations, being part poetic experience, find detailed reflections poetry, at times approaching abstract. applied aesthetic thematic anal...

Islamic financial jurisprudence has always had the stated aim of enhancing human welfare, and therefore prohibitions must be seen through the lens of welfare-enhancing regulation of financial practices. In today’s age of financial engineering, utilizing many of the legal and financial advances of the past two decades, it is quite easy to synthesize the contracts that classical and contemporary ...

mahmoud taymour (1894-1973) is one of the great contemporary arab fiction writers, who has contributed a lot to the arabic literature. he was a pioneer of the modern arabic novel and short story and he was called the father of contemporary arabic fiction. one of his most important works is shams and layl which is a real travelogue mixed with the writer’s wondrous fantasy. in this paper the auth...