During March 2006-March 2009, a total of 6,355 suspected cases of avian influenza (H5N1) were reported to the Ministry of Health in Egypt. Sixty-three (1%) patients had confirmed infections; 24 (38%) died. Risk factors for death included female sex, age > or = 15 years, and receiving the first dose of oseltamivir >2 days after illness onset. All but 2 case-patients reported exposure to domestic...

The PETTLEP model of imagery (Holmes & Collins, 2001) was designed to produce more effective imagery. The PETTLEP acronym represents seven key elements (i.e., Physical, Environment, Task, Timing, Learning, Emotion, and Perspective) which should be considered by researchers and practitioners when delivering an imagery intervention. It is thought that by including these elements the functional eq...

BACKGROUND The burden caused by the coexistence of obesity and underweight in Low and Middle Income Countries is a challenge to public health. While prevalence of underweight among youth has been well documented in these countries, overweight, obesity and their associated risk factors are not well understood unlike in high income countries. METHODS Cross-sectional data from the Global School-...

salah abdul saboor as a pioneer of arabic poetry is one of the greatest contemporary poets of egypt. this paper is about his famous play named ”hallaj’s tragedy”. this play tries to unveil social and political dimensions of hallaj’s life and the age he lived in order to compare it with abdul saboor’s life and age. we can call this play “tragedy of abdul saboor”. abdul saboor in this play discus...

Using a longitudinal design, the present study examined developmental changes in the employment of (motor) imagery strategies on the hand laterality judgment (HLJ) task in children. All children (N = 23) participated three times, at ages of 5, 6, and 7 years. Error percentages and response durations were compared to a priori defined sinusoid models, representing different strategies to judge ha...

1 Department of Pathology, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt 2 Department of Hematology , Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt 3 Advanc Dental/Medical institute IPPT,USM, Malysia & Medicinial Chemistry Department of NRC,Cairo, Egypt 4 Department of Surgery. Faculty of Medicine (Kasr El Aini Hospital), Cairo University, Egypt 5 Department of Electron Microscop (Hematol...

The ability to perform movement imagery has been shown to influence motor performance and learning in sports and rehabilitation. Self-report questionnaires have been developed to assess movement imagery ability in adults, such as the Movement Imagery Questionnaire 3 (MIQ-3); however, there is a dearth of developmentally appropriate measures for use with children. To address this gap, the focus ...

During adolescence the body undergoes many physical changes. These changes necessitate an updating of internal models of action. Here, we tested the hypothesis that internal models undergo refinement between adolescence and adulthood. We investigated the chronometry of executed and imagined hand actions, which relies on internal models, in 40 adolescents (24 males; mean age 13.1 years) and 33 a...

followingthedeathofsaadzaghloul,oneofthenationalist leaders of egyptin1927,hispartysupportersprintedmanynotesabouthim.one of themostimportantoftheseworkswasthebooksaadzaghloulwrittenby mahmoudabbasaqqādin1936.in1939and1941,abdal-rahmanal-rafi publishedtwodetailedbiographyaboutmustafakameland mohammad farid, the other nationalist leaders of egypt. showing an ideal image of egypt's national ...