Postgraduate Program in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan Km.10, Makassar, Indonesia Medistra Hospital, Jl. Jendral Gatot Subroto Kav. 59, Jakarta, Indonesia Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan Km.10, Makassar, Indonesia Faculty of Medicine, University of Tarumanagara, Jl. Letjen S. Parman No...

The Raya port (eighth to 12th centuries) on the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, was one of the important port cities for the Red Sea trade. We performed on-site analyses of Islamic glass vessels (used in eighth to 11th centuries) mainly from this site in Egypt using a portable XRF spectrometer. The aim of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of the chemical compositions of early Islamic gla...

1 Department of Oral Microbiology, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, 1757 Kanazawa, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido, 061-0293, Japan 2 Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Indonesia, Salemba Raya No.4, Jakarta Pusat 10430, Indonesia 3 Postdoctoral Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 5-3-1, Kouji-machi, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, 102-0083,...

BACKGROUND The harmful infant feeding practices of prelacteal feeding is widely practiced in Ethiopia. Hence, it is vital to appreciate the cultural basis and potential factors on infant feeding practices in different parts of Ethiopia. This study aimed to investigate prelacteal feeding practices and associated factors among mothers of children aged less than 24 months in Raya Kobo district, No...

SIR—We were very interested in the paper by Abou-Raya et al. [1] regarding bone health and Parkinson's disease. In our rural community of Ceredigion, West Wales, we carried out a similar study in 2007. We were prompted by a spate of hip fractures amongst our patients attending the movement disorder clinic. We looked at 50 patients (31 males) and enrolled their carers as controls for vitamin D l...

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Karina Raya-Díaz 1,* ID , Carelia Gaxiola-Pacheco 1, Manuel Castañón-Puga 1 ID , Luis E. Palafox 1, Juan R. Castro 1 and Dora-Luz Flores 2 ID 1 Facultad de Ciencias Químicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Calzada Universidad 14418, Tijuana 22390, Mexico; [email protected] (C.G.-P.); [email protected] (M.C.-P.); [email protected] (L.E.-P.); [email protected] (J....

Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Pelita Harapan/Siloam Hospital, Lippo Village, Jl. Siloam No.6, Tangerang, Indonesia Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology, Jl. Boulevard Jenderal Sudirman 1668, Lippo Village, Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia Klinik Hati Prof. Ali Sulaiman, Jl. Cilamaya No. 46, Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medic...

Analysis of soil samples collected from sewage and tube well irrigated soils of Ludhiana, Amritsar Jalandhar and Mandi Gobindgarh, revealed that Diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid extractable nickel ( DTPA-Ni) was found to be higher in sewage fed soils. Sewage irrigation increased soil DTPA-Ni content by 3.04 times over the tube well irrigated soils. The content of DTPA-Ni showed decreasing t...