Awad E Osman1*, Habiba Alsafar2, Guan K Tay3, Jasem BJM Theyab4, Mohamed Mubasher1, Nezar Eltayeb-El Sheikh1, Hanan AlHarthi1, Michael H. Crawford5 and Gehad El Ghazali6 1PCLM, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh 11525, Saudi Arabia 2Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 3Centre for Forensic Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, West...

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE. E-mail: a Centro de Investigaciones Cient́ıcas Av Qúımica Fundamental, Universidade de C Fraga 10, 15008 A Coruña, Spain Laboratoire d'Ingénierie Moléculaire Appliq UdS, ECPM, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasb School of Sciences, Indiana University Koko Laboratoire de Chimie Bioorganique et Méd rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg, F...

Schrödinger’s view of life and his suggestion that “Organization is maintained by extracting 'order' from the environment” in fact anticipated the notion of order out of chaos that has become the motto of complexity theory. And indeed, three decades later, in December 8, 1977, Ilia Prigogine (1977) in his Nobel lecture demonstrated that in certain circumstances matter too behave as if it has li...

Ilia L. Rasskazov,* Sergei V. Karpov, and Vadim A. Markel L. V. Kirensky Institute of Physics, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia Laboratory for Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy and Department of Photonics and Laser Technologies, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk 660041, Russia Siberian State Aerospace University, Krasnoyarsk 660014, Russia Departments of Radiology and Bioengineering and the Gr...

The paper describes an application of a recently developed machine learning technique called Mondrian predictors to risk assessment of ovarian and breast cancers. The analysis is based on mass spectrometry profiling of human serum samples that were collected in the United Kingdom Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening. The paper describes the technique and presents the results of class...

Seatbelt legalisation was implemented in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in January 1999. This provided the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of the legislation in the Eastern District of Abu Dhabi Emirate in the UAE by establishing levels of injury severity from motor vehicle crashes (MVC) before and after the legislation and the rate of compliance with the legislation. Data were obtain...

Inhibitors of calpains, calcium-activated neutral proteases, protect against cell death produced by anoxia and a variety of toxicants both in vitro and in vivo. The problems with known calpain inhibitors are a lack of specificity, low membrane permeability, and/or low potency. The goal of this study was to determine the effects of seven novel dipeptide and tripeptide calpain inhibitors on calpa...

Skeletal scintigraphy, which has now been established as a useful and accurate method of detecting early skeletal metastases and assessing their response to treatment, has been investigated for its pathological basis. Histological examination of several hyndred necropsy specimens, from sixty-eight patients who died from malignant disease, showed a significant increase of osteoid and immature wo...

The Melkites, Jacobites, and Nestorians were the main Christian communities under Muslim rule. Several pre-Islamic Arab Christian authors wrote treatises concerning their beliefs in Arabic, some of which date back to the early Islamic centuries. The multiplicity of such polemical works suggests an intellectually open society and a degree of tolerance shown by Muslim leaders. Abu Raʾita...