framework. Instead, most saw the events in far more personal and local terms: the loss of a friend, the effect on a town or community, the Rethinking History 299 impact on their family or jobs (Kazin 2003). Using similar electronic techniques, researchers are already probing the Syllabus Finder database to investigate a variety of themes, such as the changing role of race and ethnicity in under...

Total marine fisheries catches by Oman were estimated from 1950 to 2010, including large-scale and smallscale commercial catches, subsistence, and recreational catches, as well as major discards. Reconstructed total catches increased from around 53,600 t∙year-1 in the 1950s to almost 200,000 t·year-1 in the 2000s. This estimated catch is 1.3 times the landings reported by the FAO on behalf of O...

THE ANCIENT WORLD AND THE BIRTH OF MEDICINE From the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Mediterranean, it is in the land of Egypt where medicine probably started. This is the story of a great period in the history of medicine. But let us start at the beginning. Imhotep, who flourished about 5,000 years ago, is the first person whose name is recorded not for being a king or a conqueror, but ...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis of breast lesions is usually confirmed by fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) or histological biopsy. Although there is increasing literature regarding the advantages and limitations of both modalities, there is no literature regarding the accuracy of these modalities for diagnosing breast lesions in high-risk patients, who usually have lesions detected by screening....

The medicinal plants have attracted great attention in the recent years for better therapeutic management of diseases. Nigella sativa is one of the most extensively studied plants and has gained more and more interest for potential medical use in recent years. Historical and traditional uses of this herb have been widely documented in ancient documents; and Nigella sativa have been broadly used...

Fro Ins an of tha Lis Yo Ma BACKGROUND People who are physically active have at least a 30% lower risk of death during follow-up compared with those who are inactive. However, the ideal dose of exercise for improving longevity is uncertain. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the association between jogging and long-term, all-cause mortality by focusing specifically on the effec...

it is true, it is true,the arts of book book in ottoman times drew their initial inspiration from those of iran. in some of the associated specialities, for example in most qur’anic illumination and in the illustration of verse romances, they did not progress significantly beyond this heritage. the timurid zafarnama and perhaps the most ilkhanid chingiznama had chronicled military exploits in a...

This special issue of Clinical Chemistry focuses on diabetes mellitus. Diabetes has been recognized for more than 3500 years, since an early description in 1552 BCE in the Ebers Papyrus. Surviving texts from the ancient Greeks, Chinese, Indians, and Persians also refer to the disease, which was subsequently named diabetes mellitus. The recent dramatic increase in the worldwide prevalence of dia...

The essay concentrates on a master narrative strategy presiding over the early emergence of modernity in the area in which contemporary Romania is situated. This narrative strategy richly illustrates the neoByzantine survival strategies of the Greek elites who ruled the Danubian Principalities (Moldova and Valahia) during the earlier stages of Romanian modernization (18th century). Early modem ...