The genus Commiphora (Burseraceae) with more than 150 plant species, is distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions, especially occurring in northeastern Africa, southern Arabia and India (Langenheim, 2003). The plants of Commiphora species are characterized as small trees or shrubs with spinescent branches, pale-gray bark and reddishbrown resinous exudates. The resinous exudates of the...

1 DCT Image Steganography Analysis for Privacy Preserving Data Mining; Sahar A. El-Rahman Ismail, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt and Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Dalal Al Makhdhub, Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Amal A. Al Qahtani, Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Ghadah A. Al Shabanat, Princes...

1Faculty of Public Health, Balamand University, Beirut, Lebanon. 2Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. 3Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon. 4Division of Medical Sciences and Public Health, Lebanese Council for Scientific Research, Beirut, Lebanon. 5Chronic Care Centre, Hazmieh, Lebanon. Received: 14/05/03; accepted: 14/09/03 SUMMARY A ...

The larva, pupa, male and female of Simulium tergospinosum n. sp. are described and illustrated. The adults of this new species share many characters with species in the subgenus Psaroniocompsa, where it is placed. The larva of this species bears dorsal and lateral triangular tubercles on the abdomen and multiply branched scale-like setae on the body, suggesting that it belongs to the S. siolii...

We prove strong normalization of-reduction+-expansion for the Calculus of Constructions , thus providing the rst strong normalization result for-reduction+-expansion in calculi of dependent types and answering in the aarmative a conjecture by Di Cosmo and Ghani. In addition, we prove strong normalization of-reduction+-expansion+algebraic reduction for the Algebraic Calculus of Constructions, wh...

Atiyeh, Bishara S. MD, Ioannovich Division of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns, General State Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece, Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center Region Piemonte, Torino, Italy, Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, Palermo, Italy, Department of Plastic Su...

The computational treatment of subjectivity and sentiment in natural language is usually significantly improved by applying features exploiting lexical resources where entries are tagged with semantic orientation (e.g., positive, negative values). In spite of the fair amount of work on Arabic sentiment analysis over the past few years, e.g., (Abbasi et al., 2008; Abdul-Mageed et al., 2014; Abdu...

1 Department of Experimental Pathology Immunology and Microbiology Faculty of 8 Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon 9 10 2 Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon 11 12 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, 13 Beirut, Lebanon 14 15 4 Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Building 6L, ...

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