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Jose Medina Pestana , MD , PhD , FRCS

JMP: After finishing medical residency training at the Federal University of São Paulo in 1983, I was offered a position leading a team aiming at increasing the number of kidney transplants at the same institution. At that time, less than 500 kidney transplants had been performed annually in the entire countrywith the vast majority retrieved from living donors. My previous experience had been s...

Position Paper—Medina: Combining Evidence to Build Trust

Security mechanisms require flexibility to accommodate the frailties of the imperfect people that use them. For example, password systems typically allow users who forget their passwords to reset their password after passing some other test. More generally, many human decisions of trust are based on weighing a preponderance of evidence in an ad hoc fashion. We present Medina, an authentication ...

Geochemical Study of an Equine Enterolith, Medina County, Ohio

An intestinal concretion (enterolith) was recovered during necropsy of a horse from Medina County, Ohio. The object is approximately spherical in shape and measures 9 X 8 X 7 cm in diameter. It is composed of struvite (NH4MgPO4 • 6H2O). The monohydrate dittmarite was not found. In addition to Mg and P, significant concentrations (^500 ppm) of Ca, K, and Fe and lesser amounts (^500 ppm) of Na, M...

Antibody to toxoplasma gondii among pregnant women in Medina Munawarah.

Variations in the prevalence of antibody to toxoplasma gondii is reported from various countries (Hong Kong 9.8%, London 22%, New York 30%, Paris 84%) and from various cities in the same country(Jeddah 32%, Abha 51%). An area densely populated with cats is believed to be heavily contaminated with toxoplasma oocysts, leading to an increasing infection. As MedinaMunawarah has a large number of ca...

Liberalization Between Global City and Islamic Medina : Jordan