Introduction: Blood safety presents a serious challenge in Egypt, having the highest prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV). Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of blood donor recruitment strategies, the seroprevalence of positive infectious markers among volunteer donors (VD) and family replacement donors (RD) at a University Hospital Blood Bank was studied. Methodology: Donors’ records c...

Nader Nakhleh, DO; Richard Francis, PhD; Rachel A. Giese, BS; Xin Tian, PhD, You Li, PhD; Maimoona A. Zariwala, PhD; Hisato Yagi, PhD; Omar Khalifa, MD; Safina Kureshi, MD; Bishwanath Chatterjee, PhD; Steven L. Sabol, PhD; Matthew Swisher, MD; Patricia S. Connelly, MS; Mathew P. Daniels, PhD; Ashok Srinivasan, PhD; Karen Kuehl, MD, MPH ; Nadav Kravitz; Kimberlie Burns, BS; Iman Sami, MD; Heymut...

From the College of Nursing (VR, TT, LW, OB, HA, IA, FT, MD) and Department of Family Medicine (HJ), Wayne State University, Detroit; Wayne County Department of Health and Wellness Promotion (AK), Detroit; Community Health & Research Center, ACCESS (HJ, AH, SA), Dearborn; Michigan. Virginia Hill Rice, PhD, RN; Thomas Templin, PhD; Linda Weglicki, PhD, RN; Hikmet Jamil, MD, PhD; Adnan Hammad, Ph...

From the College of Nursing (TT, VR, HG, LW, HA, IA, OB, FT, MD) and Department of Family Medicine (HJ), Wayne State University, Detroit; Community Health & Research Center, ACCESS, Dearborn (AH, HJ, SA); Wayne County Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, Detroit (AK); Michigan. Thomas Templin, PhD; Virginia Hill Rice, PhD, RN; Hesham Gadelrab, MA; Linda Weglicki, PhD, RN; Adnan Hammad, ...

Globalisation aims at bringing the world closer like a global village. But it has not had much impact on small-scale farming communities in Africa due to several barriers. These include illiteracy which hinders access to printed and electronic information; poverty which does not allow farmers to have the purchasing power to acquire equipment, such as television sets, radio sets, computer, etc, ...

The success of the Internet has launched McLuhan’s idea of the global village. Over the years, the Internet has become a real political medium which has inspired the emergence of the concept of e-democracy. Despite some successful applications, many limitations prevent its wide expansion. Some of these limitations can be solved with social software, in particular with the emerging Web 2.0 appli...

Information technology is currently taking center stage and transformed the whole world into a global village with a global economy, which is increasingly dependant on the creative management and distribution of information. The enormous advantages it has in easing the delivery of information around the world. The paper discusses the impact of information technology and role of libraries in the...

People have always been mobile. In the Middle Ages, masses moved because of pilgrimages. Today, these masses are called holiday travellers. People have never been more mobile than today. Because of increasing prosperity and the abolishment of many borders in Europe, "freedom" has become a new symbol. Freedom causes movement. We have yet to overcome the borders of the countries behind the former...

Fina Lovren, Yi Pan, Praphulla C. Shukla, Adrian Quan, Hwee Teoh, Paul E. Szmitko, Mark D. Peterson, Milan Gupta, Mohammed Al-Omran, and Subodh Verma Division of Cardiac Surgery, Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Division of General Internal Medicine, and Cardiometabolic Risk Initiative, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto; Canadian Cardiovascular Research Network, Toronto; T...

The ultrasound technology has been used for various functions particularly as a tool in beef and dairy research for many years. It has become more available to the commercial livestock agriculture recently. Application of transrectal real-time ultrasonography in the study of bo‐ vine reproduction represents a technological breakthrough that has revolutionized the knowledge of reproductive biolo...