1 Department of Pediatrics, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon. 2 School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 3 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. 4 Department of Family Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Leba...

finally preserved the banding chromosomes as a useful representation of the whole picture. This was useful for patients, clinicians and geneticists alike. The history of genetic mapping develops as successive techniques were invented. The text is full of suggestive rhetorical and conceptual terms, which explain in a very precise manner how the laboratory bench came to have epistemological super...

Shortly after the discovery of X-rays by the German physicist Wilhelm C. Roentgen in November 1895, the first X-ray apparatus was installed in 1898 in Beirut at the Prussian Hospital affiliated since 1887 with the Medical School of the Syrian Protestant College founded in 1867 (later American University of Beirut in 1920). The first chest radiographs were produced after a long exposure time in ...

history - narrative interaction is one of the most important issues have being discussed in critical philosophy of history. a historian normally compiles the historical events, as the essential parts of history recording, and imports them besides some connectors through a narrative structure.  the existing relation between such a narrative and the reality is of considerable concerns which are e...

Recent technological advances now make possible the full integration of sound in instructional software. Sounds may gain and focus learner attention, reduce distracting stimuli, and make learning more engaging. In addition, they may help learners condense, elaborate on, and organize details, highlighting interconnections among new pieces of information and making connections to preexisting know...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 2 Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 4 Department of Experimental Patholo...

This article addresses two subjects relating to the topic of this issue Scandinavian Journal History from a ‘difference approach’ in narratology. means that we assume words like ‘narrative’ and ‘fiction’ are used denote different things it is important distinguish between these uses. We also narrative texts share similar surface structures can still ‘do’ approached differently by readers. The f...