This paper attempts to demonstrate that it is not only the universal principles of Islam that ground our everyday actions, but also the practical and immediate issues which we confront. Although Islam provides a universal set of principles to make life meaningful, I shall argue that these principles are vernacularized and localized in specific narratives. By offering seven diverse zones of Isla...

Department of Surgery; Department of Clinical Oncology; Medical Statistics, Leiden University Medical Centre, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden; Department of Surgery, De Weezenlanden Hospital; Department of Surgery, St. Sophia Hospital, Zwolle; Department of Oncology, St. Laurentius Hospital, Roermond; Department of Surgery, St. Gregorius Hospital, Brunssum; and Department of Pathology, Leiden Unive...

1Department of Rheumatology, and 2Department of Orthopaedics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; 3Sophia Rehabilitation, The Hague, The Netherlands; 4Rijnlands Rehabilitation Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; 5Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 6Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Vancouver, Canada. Theodora P.M. Vliet Vlie...

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New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, has identified the “self-organising collaborative communities” on the net as one of the world’s ten flattening forces (Friedman, 2004). These communities have gathered individuals around areas of interest (Prahalad & Ramaswamy, 2004) and managed to create a new mode of production quite distinct from markets and hierarchies based around the concept of...

From the * Department of Immunohematology and Blood Bank, University Hospital Leiden, 2300 RC Leiden, the Netherlands; ‡ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Free University Hospital, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands; § Department of Pathology, University Hospital Leiden, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; and i Cancer Immunology Program, Cardinal Bernadin Cancer Center, Loyola University ...

Apolipoprotein (apo) E3-Leiden is a variant of apoE that is associated with dominant expression of type III hyperlipoproteinemia and that is defective in binding to the low density lipoprotein receptor. Therefore, the structure of apoE3-Leiden was investigated. Upon sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis apoE3-Leiden and its 22-kDa amino-terminal thrombolytic fragment migrate...

normal hemostasis requires balanced regulation of prothrombotic and antithrombotic factors. inherited alteration of factor v and prothrombin gene, the g20210a mutation, increases the resistance of factor v to degradation and booster production of prothrombin respectively. these alterations can increase hypercoagulability leading to thrombotic consequences. we aimed to assess the frequencies of ...

To determine whether factor V Leiden (FVL) and/or prothrombin gene G20210A mutation (PT20210A) are risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in Argentinean children. One hundred and thirty consecutive children with VTE were prospectively assisted at a single centre. Blood samples were available from 110 of them for detailed haematological analysis. The prevalence of both mutations was compa...

The allegation that, 'Being Muslim means that you cannot be British' is often made. In view of this, we conducted a small survey (n=75) utilising purposive sampling on Muslims residing in the United Kingdom. Participants were recruited in a King's College London Islamic Society event in November 2014 in Guy's Hospital, London. 75/75 (100%) of the participants recruited responded. 69/75 (94%) of...