OBJECTIVE To assess coffee consumption in the Sami and Norwegian populations and to investigate the impact of unfiltered boiled coffee consumption on serum cholesterol concentrations. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. Information was collected by self-administrated questionnaires and total serum cholesterol was analysed. Participants were divided into three ethnic groups: Sami I (Sami used as h...

Nasser al-Din Muhammad, son of Asad Sherko, Shadi, was the only heir when his father died in 564 AH, so he given regions Homs, Rajba, and all other areas that were Sherko’s Iqta, by Noor Mahmoud Zanghie. However, a few months after death, took back territories from Naser al-Din. Therefore, Muhammad moved to Egypt stayed there 567 569 then members family Egypt, while cousin, Salah ruler Egypt. A...

Pan African Medical Journal. 2016; 24:55 doi:10.11604/pamj.2016.24.55.8930 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/24/55/full/ © Sami Aziz Brahmi et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2....

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common malignancies in men with approximately 0.9 million newly diagnosed cases and 0.26 million deaths in 2008 worldwide (Jemal et al., 2011). Until now, the exact carcinogenic mechanism of prostate cancer has remained unclear (Mahmoud et al., 2014). It is widely accepted that carcinogenesis of prostate cancer is affected by genetic susceptibility and e...

OBJECTIVES Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is recognised as a reliable long-term predictor of adverse health outcomes. Elevated prevalence rates of MetS and chronic lifestyle diseases have been documented in different indigenous groups. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of MetS and diabetes mellitus in relation to ethnicity in Northern Norway. In addition, we discussed different cut-off values for ...

Sami C. Al-Izzi, George Rowlands, Pierre Sens, and Matthew S. Turner Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS, Physical Chemistry Curie, F-75005 Paris, France Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 168, F-75005 Paris,...

Al-Btriuni's book on pharmacy and materia medica, ed. with English translation by H. M. Said and R. E. Elahie, Karachi, Hamdard National Foundation, 1973, volume 1, pp. viii, 376+430 pp. (Arabic text), $30.00; Introduction, commentary and evaluation, by S. K. Hamarneh, volume 2, pp. 152, illus., $6.00. SAMI K. HAMARNEH, The physician, therapist and surgeon Ibn al-Quff (12331286), an introductor...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to document that the Sami people, constituting an ethnic minority in northern Norway, experience an equally available specialist health care service as the one offered to Norwegians in general. We aimed to use cancer and radiotherapy treatment as the instrument to clarify the situation. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective registry-based study. METHODS The...

The Synthetic Aperture Microwave Imaging (SAMI) diagnostic is a Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) diagnostic based at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. The acceleration of the SAMI diagnostic data processing code by a graphics processing unit (GPU) is presented, demonstrating acceleration of up to 60x compared to the original Interactive Data Language (IDL) data processing code. SAMI will now be...

The Sydney–AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey is an ongoing project to obtain spatially resolved spectroscopic observations of ∼3400 galaxies by mid-2016. To date, a total of ∼1000 galaxies have been observed, making the SAMI Galaxy Survey the largest integral field survey in existence. In July 2014 the early data release for the SAMI galaxy Survey occurred, with ...