Cystic Fibrosis is the most common recessive autosomal rare disease found in Caucasians. It is caused by mutations on the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator gene (CFTR) that encodes a protein located on the apical membrane of epithelial cells. c.3909C>G (p.Asn1303Lys, old nomenclature: N1303K) is one of the most common worldwide mutations. This mutation has been found at high f...

AIMS HLA-DPA1 is an important marker in bone marrow and organ transplantation and a highly emerging screening parameter in histocompatibility laboratories. Being highly polymorphic, it has another significant value in detecting population origins and migrations. This is the first study to assess DPA1 allele frequencies in an Arab population. METHODS The HLA DPA1 alleles were identified using ...

INTRODUCTION The objectives of this study were to establish weight, height and body mass index curves and to calculate the prevalence of obesity by sex and age groups in Lebanese adolescents of private schools. MATERIAL AND METHODS Body weight, height and body mass index (BMI) were measured among 12299 adolescents aged 10 to 18 years from Lebanese private schools. Adolescents' growth charts w...

Abstract This essay explores the secular imaginary of contemporary elegy, with a focus on writers in U.S. Comparing recent poems by Natasha Trethewey, Danez Smith, Sam Sax, primarily, I examine variations figure apostrophe addressed to dead as imaginative critiques hope. These poets use precarious forms explore conceptual impasse posthumous personhood social world. Their writing disperses this ...

This special issue of Italica, titled Weaving Media in Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry, includes contributions by leading emerging scholars working on modern contemporary poetry. Most the articles result from seminar series devoted to intermediality twentieth- twenty-first-century poetry at Department Trinity College Dublin 2022 as part Network (www.weaving-media.com) which was possible ...

Reviewing past and current mobility assessments for the Lebanese road transport sector, road mobility demand has experienced a real explosion since 1990, and the trend is strongly upward over the decade to come. This growth is mainly attributed to the raise of daily passenger trips and the increase of car ownership. Moreover, this increase in mobility demand results in severe congestion, mostly...

To the Editor: 1 work at an overseas American institution, and there are extended delays in receipt of journals by our medical library. So, it was only a few days ago that I saw the article entitled “Weak Association between HLA-B27 and the Spondylarthropies in Lebanon,” which was published in the February 1997 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism (1). I would like to draw the attention of the Leban...

Of American poets taught regularly in secondary education, the two most ill-served, it seems to me, are Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson.1 [1] Students are typically introduced to these poets through their most-anthologized poems, and the majority of these are chosen in part for their accessibility--not too undaunting conceptually, and technically fluid--but also for a sort of charmingness, alb...

North American (Canadian) and Middle East (Lebanese) participants rated their reactions to four different humorous comments (self-enhancing, affiliative, self-defeating, and aggressive), presented by others in brief scenarios. Consistent with predictions generated from a humor styles model originally formulated in a North American context, all participants responded most negatively to aggressiv...

This study aimed to examine the proportion and socio-demographic correlates of Metabolically Healthy Overweight and Obesity (MHOv/O) among Lebanese adults and to investigate the independent effect of previously identified dietary patterns on odds of MHOv/O. Data were drawn from the National Nutrition and Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factor Survey (Lebanon 2008-2009). Out of the 337 adult parti...