Bangladesh, an alluvial and deltaic land of 147,570 square km, is prone to various natural disasters such as cyclones, floods, and droughts (Ahmad et al., 2001). The total population is about 130 million. The people of this country are still overburdened with various infectious diseases and ailments due to malnutrition. Unfortunately one more environmental hazard from geological sources – arsen...

What do we know with certainty about the life of Masud Khan? Khan was born in 1924 in the Punjab, the second son of a marriage that united an elderly Shiite Muslim father who had acquired power and wealth in the service of the British and a bride who was still in her teens. Khan apparently suffered a depression during his adolescence and was treated by a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. In 1946,...

The frequency with which bacterial cholangitis complicates choledocholithiasis or benign postoperative biliary strictures has been the subject of several studies (Elkeles and Mirizzi, 1942; Anderson and Priestley, 1951; Edlund, Mollstedt, and Ouchterlony, 1959; Scott and Khan, 1967). The magnitude of the bacterial population present in this condition had, however, been crudely assessed until in...

Vafa Ghazi-Moghadam M. Kaveh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ABSTRACT This paper addresses some practical issues in active array signal processing, such as signal design, calibration and algorithmically e cient processing for range and angle determination. First, the operation of an experimental ultrasound-in-air active sensing system is...

OBJECTIVE To describe the outcome of cases with subacromial impingement syndrome managed with arthroscopic subacromial decompression. STUDY DESIGN Quasi-experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Section of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi from April 2005 to March 2006. METHODOLOGY Thirty patients with impingement syndrome who underwent a...

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Meraj Hasan Khan is the first author on 'The Sharpin interactome reveals a role for Sharpin in lamellipodium formation via the Arp2/3 complex', published in Journal of Cell Science. Meraj is a PhD...

Kiran Shaikh, Shahirose Premji, Khurshid Khowaja, Suzanne Tough, Ambreen Kazi, Shaneela Khowaja Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery, Karachi, Pakistan University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Director of Nursing Al Noor Hospital, Al Ain and Associate Professor, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Department of Pediatrics and Community Health, University of Calgary, Alberta, Can...

This master’s thesis is a part of ‘Human Spare Parts’ research program by BioMediTech. The aim of the research program is to integrate different branches of biomedical engineering and stem cell research to discover new and better therapies and treatments. However, this thesis concentrates on biomaterials and sensor technology. The first part of the thesis, entitled the theoretical part is dedic...

Introduction: Cephalometry is an efficient tool for anthropometric studies. This study sought to assess facial dimensions and types of adults residing in Qazvin (Iran) and Dera Ghazi (DG) Khan (Pakistan). Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 300 ethnic populations of Qazvin and 365 ethnic populations of DG Khan aged between 18-55 years were randomly selected and evaluated. Th...