infections Widad Al-Nakib, FRCPath, FIDSA; Sahar Essa, BSc, MSc, PhD; Haya Altawalah, BSc, MBBS, FRCPath; Abdullah Owayed; Mousa Khadadah; Nasser Behbehani; Microbiology Department Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Ministry of Health, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait; Paediatrics, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Medicine, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medici...

The Middle East and North Africa (henceforth MENA) are areas of conflict and opposed perceptions. The last three months have seen unprecedented protests and revolutions in almost all Arab countries (“Arab Spring”), starting in Tunisia with the flight of Ben Ali and his family, spreading to Egypt with the overthrow of Mubarak and his government, and to Libya with its civil war and most recently ...

- former germany president charged with corruption - pakistan court extends bail for former president musharraf - turkish parliament approves amendments to anti-terrorism legislation - trial of mubarak ends after judge recuses himself - hrw urges yemen to stop executing juvenile offenders

In 2005, reviewed current research literature in view morphing and matching for single views, and discussed a feature based approach to sparse view morphing that also shows promise for compression of the model data corpus. Worked on a new Bayesian approach for the problem from a mid-level segmentation problem. We obtained good results for feature-based morphing, as well as preliminary demonstra...