an important feature of the holy quran, which has often gone unnoticed, is its rich vocabulary and expressions employed to eloquently express various aspects of daily life. this aspect of the holy quran is often reflected in everyday conversations of people from various walks of life: the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the master and the peasant. this...

The enormous contribution of agricultural cooperative societies to the rural world has not gone unnoticed [...]

In January 2010, a 35-year-old mother from the village Baniyapur in Bihar, the poorest and second most populous state in India, had been weak and very ill for months with high fever, anemia, and wasting. She finally travelled by train to New Delhi to seek medical help in a major hospital. She was diagnosed with visceral leishmaniasis (VL), the most common febrile vector-born disease in Bihar, a...

BACKGROUND Foreign body ingestion complicated by perforation of the digestive tract is a well-known occurrence. Contrary to this, perforation by fishbones has most often been described in South East Asian populations, and has the unusual characteristic of often being paucisymptomatic until secondary complications occur. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 56 year-old man of asian origin...

In the context of Dolev-Yao style analysis of security protocols, we investigate the security claims of a proposed strong-security RFID authentication protocol. We exhibit a flaw which has gone unnoticed in RFID protocol literature and present the resulting attacks on authentication, untraceability, and desynchronization resistance. We analyze and discuss the authors’ proofs of security. Refere...

The Sun’s orbital motion around the Solar System barycentre contributes a small quadrupole moment to the gravitational energy of Mercury. The effect of this moment has until now gone unnoticed, but it actually generates some precession of Mercury’s orbit. Therefore the residual 43arcsec/cy, currently allocated to general relativity, has to account for this new component as well as a reduced rel...