abstract abu alaa ma’ari denuded the writers’ philosophical attitude and established a new foundation in the literature. taha hussein a writer philosopher founded new grounds in the field of literature on the sociology and psychology productions by fusing philosophy, literature, sociology and deepening the sense of the literature. most of the time and on several occasions taha hussein loved...

On December 23, 2007, the neuroscience community lost one of its most popular and prolific young scientists when Alaa El-Din El-Husseini died suddenly in a water accident while vacationing in Cuba with his fiancé, Andrea Hadyu. Alaa’s unique combination of scientific creativity, experimental genius, public service, and contagious optimism propelled Alaa to the crest of the international neurobi...

In 2005, the Maari Ma Chronic Disease Strategy of the Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation in far west NSW identified the importance of addressing the fetal, infant and child origins of chronic disease in adults. In 2008a process for developing a strategic framework to improve the development and wellbeing of children was initiated. The process incorporated all organisations involved with chi...

Internet-based syndromic monitoring of acute respiratory illness in the general population of Germany, In March 2011, the German sentinel surveillance system for influenza (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Influenza (AGI)) was complemented by an Internet-based syndro-mic monitoring system (GrippeWeb) for acute respiratory infections (ARI) and influenza-like-illness (ILI). To assess representativeness of Gri...

BACKGROUND The number of patients seeking health care is a central indicator that may serve several different purposes: (1) as a proxy for the impact on the burden of the primary care system; (2) as a starting point to estimate the number of persons ill with influenza; (3) as the denominator data for the calculation of case fatality rate and the proportion hospitalized (severity indicators); (4...

Maari is a spontaneously alkaline fermented food condiment made from baobab tree seeds. Due to the spontaneous nature of maari fermentations growth of the opportunistic human pathogen Bacillus cereus is occasionally observed. Bacillus subtilis strains are important for alkaline seed fermentations because of their enzymatic activities contributing to desirable texture, flavor and pH development....

Background. Cholesterol lowering drugs HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) and PPARα activators (fibrates) have been shown to reduce host inflammation via non-disease specific immunomodulatory mechanisms. Recent studies suggest that commonly prescribed drugs in general practice, statins and fibrates, may be beneficial in influenza-like illness related mortality. This retrospective cohort stu...

109 Anesthetic Considerations in a Parturient with a Klippel-Trenaunay Weber Syndrome Abstract Type: Case Report/Case Series Alaa A. Abd-Elsayed, M.D., M.P.H.; Joseph Baus, M.D.; Thomas James, M.D. University of CincinnatiType: Case Report/Case Series Alaa A. Abd-Elsayed, M.D., M.P.H.; Joseph Baus, M.D.; Thomas James, M.D. University of Cincinnat

Stability limits modulate whole-body motor learning 1 2 Gregory C. Manista and Alaa A. Ahmed 3 4 Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 5 6 * To whom correspondence should be addressed 7 Alaa A. Ahmed 8 Department of Integrative Physiology 9 University of Colorado 10 Boulder, CO 80309-0354 11 office: +1.303.492.6063 12 email: [email protected] 13 14 15 Ru...

BACKGROUND To reduce the burden of severe influenza, most industrialized countries target specific risk-groups with influenza vaccines, e.g. the elderly or individuals with comorbidities. Since children are the main spreaders, some countries have recently implemented childhood vaccination programs to reduce overall virus transmission and thereby influenza disease in the whole population. The in...