Author details Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Radiation Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh 59046, Saudi Arabia. Endocrinology and thyroid Oncology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh 59046, Saudi Arabia. Radiation Oncology, NCI, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Histopathology, Kin...

This paper describes the treatment and conservation of an Egyptian wooden coffin box dating back to ca. 1st century. The treatment procedures entailed cleaning, removal of dust and sand, securing severely damaged wooden fragments and damaged resin as well as the use of a suitable gap filler. Studies included wood and microbiological identification. TECHNICAL PAPER 1. Conservation Dept. Faculty ...

While developing a suite of tools for statistical machine translation research, we recognized the need for a visualization tool that would allow researchers to examine and evaluate specific word correspondences generated by a translation system. We developed Cairo to fill this need. Cairo is a free, open-source, portable, user-friendly, GUI-driven program written in Java that provides a visual ...

1 Member (ASCE/EWRI), Environmental Engineering PhD Program, The American University in Cairo, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo 11835 2 Director of Egypt Solid Waste Management Center of Excellence, Ain Shams University, 1 El-Sarayat St., Abassia, Cairo 11517 Egypt. 3 Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The American University in Cairo, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo 11835, Egypt. Corresponding Au...

The objectives of this study were to document the background prevalence and incidence of HCV infection among HCWs in Ain Shams University Hospitals in Cairo and analyse the risk factors for HCV infection. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2008 among 1770 HCWs. Anti-HCV prevalence was age-standardized using the Cairo population. A prospective cohort was followed for a period of 18 months...

Studies have generally shown a positive association between socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity in low-income countries, but few have tested this relationship in the Middle East where obesity prevalence is extraordinarily high and the nutrition profile more closely resembles developed world contexts. The objective of this study is to examine the SES-obesity association in Cairo, Egypt. Multi...

Khaled Shaalan Azza Abdel Monem, Ahmed Rafea, Hoda Baraka The Institute of Informatics, The British University in Dubai, P O Box 502216, Dubai, UAE Honorary Fellow, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK Central Lab. For Agricultural Expert Systems (CLAES), Argiculture Research Center, P O Box: 100 Dokki, Giza, Egypt Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University 5 Ahmed Zew...