A Remarkable Success Story in the Nile Delta An invitation to visit Mansoura University to view their ?caI progress and to give four lectures was accepted w'th enthusiasm and considerable interest, though with ?ome reservations as my wife was reluctant to leave Bristol where two new granddaughters had recently arnved. The Department of Urology and Nephrology at Mansoura had already been recogni...

My first view of Bangladesh was in 1977 when I joined the staff of the R.I.H.D. Hospital, classified as a Technical Assistant for the Overseas Development Ministry it reverted to an Administration in the Foreign Commonwealth Ministry with the return of the Conservative Government in 1979. These appointments are financed by the O.D.A. and an orthopaedic surgeon can usually manage only a 4 to 5 w...

Is 'traditional medicine' mumbo-jumbo, as I was given to understand as a doctor's son in then British-run Uganda? Any link the witch-doctors had with modern times was the constant pinching of syringes from Mulago Hospital. They plunged them into their customers with unsterilised needles, I remember overhearing. Victims often ended up being treated in Mulago, occassionally with cattle urine in t...

of Israel. Transjordan lost the 'trans' when it gained the West Bank from former parts of Palestine. Once more confined to the further shores of the river, Jordanians live more in hope than expectation of regaining their lost territory. The Allenby Bridge faint echoes of the Raj has become a difficult frontier for anyone to cross, especially Palestinians; yet cross it they must if they wish to ...

Registrar to be the first lecturer in Dermatology at University College, Ibadan joined the love of West Africa with my speciality and created lasting links with tropical dermatology, tropical diseases and leprosy. A visiting professorship at Korle Bu Hospital, Accra, Ghana, kept the process going and later work at Nixon Memorial Hospital, Segbwema, some 250 miles inland in Sierra Leone, made th...

In this paper we present a lossy image coder based in multiscale and directional contourlet transform which allows edge preserving in decompressed images. The preserving task is made by capture the edge points of an image using a robust and efficient edge detector known as Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus (SUSAN). The resulting edges coordinates are used as a priori knowledge of t...