In his 1875 description of the language, Theodor Nöldeke describes Mandaic as among purest Aramaic languages and furthest from Western Aramaic, particularly with respect to its lexicon. As Mandæans identify their faith that John Baptist community followers, this observation is not without relevance for assessing veracity accounts reconstructing history prior advent Islam. Departing assum...

AIMS To evaluate differences in the triglyceride to HDL-cholesterol ratio (TG/HDL), thought to be a proxy measure of insulin resistance, between Palestinian and Israeli adults in view of the greater incidence of coronary heart disease and high prevalence of diabetes in Palestinian Arabs. RESEARCH METHODS A population-based observational prevalence study of cardiovascular and diabetes risk fac...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the burden and patterns of maternal morbidity during childbirth, particularly in the Middle East Region. Investigating the patterns of maternal morbidity can be useful in guiding improvement in the quality of maternal services, and informing policy debates on women's health. OBJECTIVE To examine the incidence, types and patterns of management of severe and non...

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a hereditary disease that leads to the progressive degeneration of retinal photoreceptor cells and to blindness. It is caused by mutations in several distinct genes, including the ciliary gene FAM161A, which is associated with a recessive form of this disorder. Recent investigations have revealed that defects in FAM161A represent a rather prevalent cause of heredita...

This qualitative study explores teaching and learning cultures in the context of a community-oriented pedagogical development process initiated during Finnish–Palestinian transnational cooperation. Research data include focus group interviews texts produced training program with Palestinian university instructors. The examines as constructed by discourses around university. A poststructuralist ...

one of the basic rituals of islam is fasting during ramadan. in this month, all able-bodied muslims abstain from food, fluids, smoking, and oral medications from sunrise to sunset. according to the quran, if fasting poses major health risks to individuals, fasting during this holy month is not allowed. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of fasting on maternal and fetal health. therefore, ...

A black bag, needed especially for home visits, has been used since the time of Hippocrates who, in his treatise "On good manners", gave the first detailed description of a medical bag with guidelines for the required equipment and structure. Ancient Egyptian and Palestinian references also date back at least two millenniums.

HASSAN A ALHAZMI, HAFIZ A MAKEEN, SAMI EL DEEB Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of pharmacy, Jazan University, P.O. Box 114, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of pharmacy, Jazan University, P.O. Box 114, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia. Institute of Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Al-Azhar Uni...

some thoughts and events are of a prominent position in human life as if they lead human to insistence and repetition by becoming a part of his concerns and at last they represent themselves as an individual and permanent feature in his conscious and unconscious. but permanent repetition of the mentioned imagery represents a subject  of whose reality there is no information available under norm...