Pilgrims' Progress

Physics Today Pilgrims' progress in search of the fundamental constants

Indian Pilgrims to Mecca

Having recently fulfilled ail engagement as ship's surgeon to a British vessel carrying pilgrims from Jeddah to Calcutta, I venture to bring to your notice some facts and impressions concerning the traffic which I hope may prove of interest. I shall endeavour in the first place to describe the town of Jeddah and its sanitary arrangements, and then, by way of sequel, the incidents of the voyage....

Not strangers, but pilgrims.

I had some difficulty with both the subject and the title, bearing in mind that this oration is a welcome to the new students to the Hospital. It is common practice to deliver a lecture of some historical interest, often on one's specialty. I have resisted that for three reasons. Firstly, Dr Reginald Hall has dealt with the history of dermatology in an earlier paper in a most distinguished mann...

Pilgrims Face Recognition Dataset -- HUFRD

In this work, we define a new pilgrims face recognition and face detection dataset, called Hajj and Umrah facial dataset. The new developed dataset presents various pilgrims’ images taken from outside the Holy Masjid El-Harram in Makkah during the 2011-2012 Hajj and Umrah seasons. Such dataset will be used to test our developed facial recognition and detection algorithms, as well as in the miss...

Hajj Pilgrims’ Knowledge about Acute Respiratory Infections

To the Editor: Hajj pilgrimage is a yearly event in which >2 million Muslims from around the world gather in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Such high density of crowding presents a risk for local outbreaks and for worldwide spread of infectious agents. Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is the leading cause of admission to Saudi hospitals during the Hajj (1). In Marseille, France, after administration of ...