The objective of this paper was to present anthropometric measurements of term Sudanese neonates which will reflect intrauterine growth. Secondly, to compare such parameters with that of a previous study done about three decades ago to show if there is any secular changes. Normal term neonates born to healthy mothers between the period of October 2010 to January 2011 at Khartoum Teaching Hospit...

Obesity has dramatically increased in Irish adolescents and young adults and is related to changes in physical activity and diet (1,2). Severe obesity is associated with a much earlier presentation of type 2 diabetes (3–6), as noted in Irish Caucasian patients (7). Most studies of early-onset type 2 diabetes have been in minority populations with higher risk of type 2 diabetes than Caucasians (...

Leon Ehrenpreis was an outstanding world class mathematician and a wonderful, warm person. I had a privilege to consider myself his friend for the last two decades. It is hard to do justice to his manifold mathematics and personality, but I will try to at least add some recollections to this tribute volume. Leon Ehrenpreis has been one of my mathematical heroes for about 40 years. I first encou...

Waiting-time distributions allow us to distinguish at least three different types of dynamical systems, including (i) linear random processes (with no memory); (ii) nonlinear, avalanche-type, nonstationary Poisson memory during the exponential growth avalanche rise time); and (iii) chaotic systems in state a nonlinear limit cycle oscillatory phase). We describe temporal evolution flare rate λ(t...

in dry parts of asia and africa where the rain was sparse and the surface water inadequate, man has had to search for-other sources of water namely ground water. through this need he learned to tap ground water and extract it to the surface. thus qanats were developed in persia.techniques of qanat construction were later introduced by persians to parts of asia and dry lands of africa.constructi...