Nowadays, Alcohol is widely used in medicine and industry. On the other hand, it is well-known for its intoxicant and addictive effects and they were common in the past. Discovery of it was imputed to Mohamad ibn Zakaria Razi (Rhazes, 925 AD) or Jaber ibn Hayan (Geber, 815 AD). The Islamic researchers’ viewpoint about alcohol and their knowledge about this substance are aimed to be explored in ...

A 17-year-old woman had undergone exploratory laparotomy because of a huge cystic pelviabdominal mass equivalent of 36 weeks' gestation. A closed system drainage maneuver was applied via using a laparoscopic trocar to drain a revealed large left paraovarian cyst. This maneuver was found to be a simple and effective method to safely aspirate giant paraovarian cysts; thus allowing their total exc...

High temperature is the prevalent characteristic of subtropical and tropical regions and higher temperature has become an important limiting element for tomato production and yield. Although, tomato crops exhibit anatomical, morphological, physiological, phonological, and molecular responses to tackle with heat stress, but their reproductive stage and yields are extremely influenced by the high...

O UT OF discordant, often strident, conflicting voices that emanate from the East and the West, a new composition is slowly arising. The synthesized tune has a limited register and on many issues divergent voices will continue to be heard. It is sure to be accorded"divergent interpretations in various parts of the world and over time. Yet the new tune might well suffice to provide stronger supp...

Pitcher plant, Nepenthes spp., is one of the carnivorous plants, which produces unique pitcher structure from the tip of leaf tendril for trapping and digestion of insect prey to acquire nutrients at habitats that are deprived of nitrogen. Nepenthes ampullaria is special when compared with other pitcher plants as it has evolved a detritivore habit for the acquisition of nutrients from leaf litt...

During the Sassanid Empire in Persia (226-652 AD), there was a renaissance of humanistic sciences, including medicine, in the city of Gondi-Shapur. When the Islamic center of power moved to Baghdad in about 750 AD, physicians of Gondi-Shapur, including the dean of the medical school (a Nestorian Christian), gradually moved to Baghdad constructing hospitals and medical schools. Aided by the Pers...

WAMIS 2006 Program Committee Alex Gray, Cardiff University, UK Andre Trudel, Acadia University, Canada Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech., USA Barry Eaglestone, University of Sheffield, UK Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, UK Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy, France Chi-Chun Lo, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan David Duce, Oxford Brookes University, UK Ee-Peng Lim, Nany...

Communities gather Web services that provide a common functionality, acting as an intermediate layer between end users and Web services. On the one hand, they provide a single endpoint that handles user requests and transparently selects and invokes Web services, thus abstracting the selection task and leveraging the provided quality of service level. On the other hand, they maximize the visibi...