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 ...

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INTRODUCTION Participating in a community with other retired individuals to increase life quality can be possible for the older persons. Cultural and ethnical background is important for their social identity. OBJECTIVE To identify what the informants think is important in their surroundings in order to extend their healthy life period. STUDY DESIGN A structured questionnaire developed by t...

OBJECTIVES The government's Action Plan for Health and Social Services states as a goal that the Sami population's encounter with health and social services should be just as good as what the rest of the population experiences. The goal of this study is to investigate patient satisfaction with the municipal GP service in areas with both a Sami and Norwegian population. STUDY DESIGN A cross-se...

OBJECTIVES Unnatural deaths among Indigenous populations, including the Swedish Sami, occur more often than among the general population. To find prevention strategies, we explored the circumstances of the unnatural deaths of members of reindeer-herding Sami families. STUDY DESIGN The number of deaths from among a cohort of 7,482 members of reindeer-herding Sami families were retrieved from t...

Citation: Lai C-Z, DeGrandpre MD and Darlington RC (2018) Autonomous Optofluidic Chemical Analyzers for Marine Applications: Insights from the Submersible Autonomous Moored Instruments (SAMI) for pH and pCO2. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:438. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00438 Autonomous Optofluidic Chemical Analyzers for Marine Applications: Insights from the Submersible Autonomous Moored Instruments (SAMI) ...

BACKGROUND Pain is common in otherwise healthy adolescents. In recent years widespread musculoskeletal pain, in contrast to single site pain, and associating factors has been emphasized. Musculoskeletal pain has not been examined in Arctic indigenous adolescents. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence of widespread musculoskeletal pain and its association with psychosocial factors,...