Amina, a 20 year-old woman, living in a small rural village of Morocco, is expecting her first baby. Her labour started when she was at term while her husband was far away; her mother-in-law was assisting her. After almost 24 hours of difficult labour, seeing the distress that Amina was going through, the mother-in-law called for her second son in order to help for a transfer to the nearest vil...

One of the challenging issues that has been frequently studied is the way Imām ‘Alī (a) addresses women in Nahj al-balāgha. Amina Inloes, the contemporary American researcher of Islam compares these statements with the qur’ānic discourse and early Shī‘a Kitāb Sulaym b. Qays. She believes that these statements are in conflict with the significations of the Qur’ān and the early ...

On the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Amina Aitsi-Selmi and Virginia Murray reflect on the importance of disaster preparedness.

Imagine a woman named Amina who owns a manufacturing company in Morocco. In 2004 she had to make 28 payments and spend more than 44 days (358 hours) to comply with tax regulations. Today, thanks to changes over the past 7 years, her administrative burden is lighter. The government merged many taxes and eliminated others, and now Amina needs to make only 17 payments a year as measured by Doing B...

Neste estudo, extratores à base de amina (Alamine 336, Alamine 308, Alamine 304 e Aliquat 336) diluídos em querosene foram usados para extração de urânio e separação de outros elementos associados. Alamine 336 foi o melhor extrator para o processo de extração de urânio de soluções de sulfato quando comparado com outros reagentes à base de amina, Alamine 308, 304 Alamine 336 e Aliquat 336. O com...

Basement m e m b r a n e is usually found where connective tissue comes into contac t wi th epithelial s tructures (1). I t occurs on the outer surface of the endothe l ium of small blood vessels, t hough it is flimsy and deficient about sinusoidal vessels of the spleen, liver, bone marrow, and frog hear t (2-6). Consisting of a feltwork of fine filaments embedded in a homogeneous ma t r ix (4,...