IN continuance of previous studies of factors affecting the nature and amount of the unsaponifiable fractions of liver, it was shown that n-hexadecane is absorbed from the alimentary tract of the rat to the extent of 50 to 108 mg. daily, depending on the quantity of hydrocarbon included in the diet [Mahdi and Channon, 1933]. This result is of interest in relation to fat absorption, because it i...

INSPIRATION Investigators; Saeideh Mazloomzadeh; Shiva Khaleghparast; Behshid Ghadrdoost; Mostafa Mousavizadeh; Mohammad Reza Baay; Feridoun Noohi; Hamidreza Sharifnia; Arezoo Ahmadi; Sasan Tavan; Nasser Malekpour Alamdari; Fathi; Mahshid Soleimanzadeh; Mostafa; Navid Davoody; Maryam Zarinsadaf; Sara Tayyebi; Fahimeh Farrokhzadeh; Faeze Nezamabadi; Esmaeil Soomari; Parham Sadeghipour, MD; Azita...

Abstract More than 20 years on from the signing of Rome Statute, delivering victim-centred justice through reparations has been fraught with legal and practical challenges. The Court’s jurisprudence only began to emerge 2012 struggles find purchase implementation ground. In its first few cases Lubanga, Katanga, Al Mahdi eligibility forms have limited certain victims, subject litigation, faced d...

This article examines technology policy and change in the Sudanese banking industry. Attention is given to the context of a developing economy that is aiming to fast track into the international banking arena through the introduction and use of new technology that is consistent with banking IT associated with more advanced industrialised economies. Some of the problems of translating a technolo...

Background: Variances in blood group antigen have been related with susceptibility particular to diseases. Prothrombin time [PT], measures the efficiency of extrinsic and common coagulation pathways, although Activated partial Thromboplastin [APTT] test evaluates intrinsic pathways. Objective: To explore influence groups on APTT PT among Healthy University Students different ABO groups. Materia...

INSPIRATION Investigators; Saeideh Mazloomzadeh; Shiva Khaleghparast; Behshid Ghadrdoost; Mostafa Mousavizadeh; Mohammad Reza Baay; Feridoun Noohi; Hamidreza Sharifnia; Arezoo Ahmadi; Sasan Tavan; Nasser Malekpour Alamdari; Fathi; Mahshid Soleimanzadeh; Mostafa; Navid Davoody; Maryam Zarinsadaf; Sara Tayyebi; Fahimeh Farrokhzadeh; Faeze Nezamabadi; Esmaeil Soomari; Parham Sadeghipour, MD; Azita...

A spirin or acetylsalicylic acid has been utilised by physicians for hundreds of years as an analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic (1). Derived from plant sources, such as the willow tree, it has the ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cells and stimulate angiogenesis (2 4). Earlier research has established that the therapeutic benefit of willow is related to the prodrug, b-D-salicin, ...

Mahdi Pourfath, Hans Kosina, and Siegfried Selberherr Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien, Gußhausstraße 27–29/E360, A-1040 Wien, Austria Email: {pourfath|kosina|selberherr}@iue.tuwien.ac.at Graphite-related materials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene have been extensively studied in recent years due to their exceptional electronic, opto-electronic, and mechanical properties. How...

EDITORIAL NOTE: Dr Ibrahim Hassan Fahal cordially contributed this article and sent the original document of the late Dr Mahjoub Osman Karrar who wrote the first clinical report on Ebola virus disease worldwide in 1976. On 4 October 1976, an epidemiologist from the Central Ministry of Health, Sudan, Dr Ali Ahmed Idris, accompanied by a clinical team of physicians arrived in Maridi to investigat...