It gives us great pleasure to introduce this special supplement dedicated to the subject of neural tube defects, as such defects constitute one of the most common malformations of human structure. This is the second special supplement on a Neuroscience topic published in the Saudi Medical Journal, the first being on Pediatric Stroke published in 2006. This supplement is sponsored by the Prince ...

Postmodern fiction, which appeared in a post-World War II period, bears distinctive qualities from other literary movements such as realism and modernism structurally, stylistically thematically. It can be perceived challenge against or attack on fixed language systems, subject matters, narrative style, plot development the face of modernist realist quest for meaning fragmentary world. One prin...

This paper includes four main stream writers of Indian origin, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Jaisree Misra and Anita Desai who have effectively projected an Intellectually Disabled character into mainstream writing. Though many a reading has been done on these writers, one aspect of scrutiny that has been constantly overlooked is the politics of representation of the Intellectually Disabled ...

Faris Q. Alenzi, Mohamed L. Salem*, Fadel S. Alyaqoub**, Fahad G. B. Alanazi***, Wafa G. Alanazi, Mona G. Alanazi, Abdulmajeed G. Alanazi, Majed G. Alanazi, Hamdan Al-Shehri, Abdulwahab A. Abuderman, Waleed Tamimi College of Applied Medical Sciences, Salman bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudia Arabia, *Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Egypt, **The International...

Tushar J. Vachharajani,* Shahriar Moossavi,* Loay Salman, Steven Wu, Ivan D. Maya, Alex S. Yevzlin, Anil Agarwal, Kenneth D. Abreo,** Jack Work, and Arif Asif *Dialysis Access Group of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Interventional Nephrology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Interventional ...

Graph concatenation for quantum codes Salman Beigi,1 Isaac Chuang,2 Markus Grassl,3 Peter Shor,4 and Bei Zeng5,6,a) 1Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 2Department of Physics and Department of Electric Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Centre for Quantu...

In contrast to the ‘whole picture’ described by Salman Rushdie, the media attention that concussion is currently receiving resembles a series of ‘pixels’. Not only journalists but coaches, athletes, parents and even medical colleagues often appear to focus on only one facet of the intricate picture that makes up the composite concussion portrait. Examples of ‘pixels’ include computerised cognit...

We thank Dr Salman and Professor Davis for their comments on our publication on the pharmacokinetics of sulfadoxinepyrimethamine in African women during pregnancy and postpartum. We reported that, compared to during pregnancy, pyrimethamine clearance was 18% higher postpartum, with large variability in the data across the four study sites, which sampled the patients at different times postpartu...

Postmodern literature is thought to be typically anti-traditional and anti-foundationalist. It can said that the major body of postmodern have started from 1950s onwards. The literary features are metafiction, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, writerly text, hybridity, magical realism, foreshadowing, irony, parody, anti-novel, anti-hero, fabulation, surfiction, hyperreality, use language games...