Nitric oxide modulates the expression of matricellular genes involved in fibrosis in renal glomerular mesangial cells Dissertation Submitted for the acquisition of the degree of Ph. Acknowledgements Praise be to Almighty Allah who is worth all the praises and from whom I seek help and guidance. Thanks to the All-Compassionate and the Most-Merciful who gave me the courage and the strength to com...

Autonomous UAVs offer advantages in industrial, agriculture, environment inspection, and logistics applications. Sometimes the use of cooperative is important to solve specific demands or achieve productivity gain these An technical challenge precise positioning between two more a task flight. Some techniques provide solutions, like GNSS positioning, visual LIDAR slam, computer vision intellige...

besides being applied in various fields such as ethics and history, sīra of the apostle of allah (s.a.w.) has been employed in jurisprudence and is referred to in jurisprudential impressions, as well. the degree of validity of the reports contained in books of sīra in view of the jurists and their rules and methodology of reference to reports of the sīra books is a topic that has attracted less...

Early in the autumn of 1931, when the United States and much of Europe were still mired in a severe economic depression, a freshman at the Yale University School of Medicine wrote to his parents who lived in Brooklyn, New York: "I am very well here, and have spent some of the best days of my life here. Everything is so informal and designed for the good of the students... ." The writer of this ...

This article examines the influence of slavery and race on medical education, practice and research in the American South. Drawing on the published autobiography, case-histories, and correspondence of American slave surgeon and 'pioneer' gynaecologist, James Marion Sims, the contribution highlights a lesser known episode from his early career, namely his surgical treatment of enslaved infants s...

London-born Dr. John de Sequeyra ( 17 12-1 795), who arrived in Virginia around 1745, was no ordinary newcomer to America. His distinguished family of Portuguese Jewish origin produced several noted physicians during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.' A descendant of the de Sequeyras who possesses and has access to extensive family records has provided some genealogical data.2 The first ...