Symptoms of gastroenteritis compatible with a food-borne outbreak started appearing among employees at the central headquarters of a “Bank” located in Beirut, Lebanon, on the evening of Monday 17 May 2004. Earlier on that day, many employees had had lunch at the bank cafeteria. All of those with signs and symptoms had eaten the main dish of chicken noodles au gratin served at the cafeteria on t...

A vedis Donabedian was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 7 January 1919. As a child he moved to a small town near Jerusalem in Palestine (now Israel) after his family fled the Armenian holocaust. However, in Palestine he experienced the social turmoil of that region. Although a Christian, he had Jewish, Arab, and Christian friends as he was growing up in Palestine. At the interpersonal level he was ab...

To the Editor: In 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was formed, with the aim of reducing infection with poliomyelitis virus. Two decades later in 2008, a total of 1,625 children contracted acute flaccid paralysis caused by poliovirus infection (1). This finding represented a 150% increase over the number of cases in 2007 (1) and resulted in the reemergence of polio as one of the wor...

Friday, October 28, 2016 1:00-1:10 Welcome by Suzanne Lenhart, NIMBioS Associate Director for Education & Outreach 1:10-2:00 Joaquin Bustoz, Jr. Lecture: Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University Mathematical Models for Malaria with Applications to Mali and USA Introduced by Suzanne Lenhart, NIMBioS 2:10-2:50 Federico Ardila, San Fransisco State University Using High-Dimensional Geometry to Move Rob...

TO THE EDITOR, " INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE." Dear Sir,?I was quite surprised to read in the Indian Medical Gazette of December 1889, volume xxiv, page 372, which has the heading " A Yunani School at Delhi." Under the above heading you have perhaps by mistake put the name of Nawab Abdul Lateef Bahadur, C. I. E., instead of Dr. Syed Ahmed, K. C. S. I., of Aligarh. I myself had the honour of attendin...

A particularly promising approach to the use of the Web for linguistic research is to build corpora via automated queries to search engines, retrieving and post-processing the pages found in this way (Ghani et al. 2003, Baroni and Bernardini 2004, Sharoff to appear). This approach differs from the traditional method of corpus construction, where one needs to spend considerable time finding and ...