The New Turn to Mecca

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....

The MECCA chemistry module

In this technical note we present the multipurpose atmospheric chemistry model MECCA. Owing to its versatility and modular structure, it can be used for tropospheric as well as stratospheric chemistry calculations. Extending the code to other domains (e.g. mesospheric or oceanic chemistry) is easily possible. MECCA contains a compre-5 hensive atmospheric reaction mechanism that currently includ...

To the Framingham data, turn, turn, turn.

New ways to turn on NKT cells

Natural killer T (NKT) cells are CD1d-restricted, lipid antigen-reactive T cells with powerful immunoregulatory potential. The prototypic antigen for NKT cells is a marine sponge-derived glycolipid, α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer), but this is not normally encountered in the mammalian environment. Thus, there is great interest in the identification of more physiological stimuli for NKT cells, a...

attention to the prophet in mecca(3)

in the previous articles, dr. tijani presented a theoretical discussion over the fact that how political concepts and ideas are present in the stories of prophets. in this article he studies the meccan verses addressed to the koreyshites. he believes that political ideas were present in all devine religions and that they exist in islam, as well, because it is the continuation of the previous re...