BACKGROUND Saba Bank Atoll, Netherlands Antilles, is one of the three largest atolls on Earth and provides habitat for an extensive coral reef community. To improve our knowledge of this vast marine resource, a survey of biodiversity at Saba Bank included a multi-disciplinary team that sampled fishes, mollusks, crustaceans, macroalgae, and sponges. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A single memb...

Saba Bank has always been an area of special importance to the neighboring island of Saba in the Netherlands Antilles. Sabans traditionally fished on the Bank as far back as 1907, but increasing foreign fishing pressures on the Bank in the 1970s and 1980s forced many Saban fishermen out. Concerns were compounded by the suspicion that shipping was also damaging the benthic habitat of the bank. F...

Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinases 1 and 2 Regulate the Balance Between Eccentric and Concentric Cardiac Growth Izhak Kehat, Jennifer Davis, Malte Tiburcy, Federica Accornero, Marc K. Saba-El-Leil, Marjorie Maillet, Allen J. York, John N. Lorenz, Wolfram H. Zimmermann, Sylvain Meloche, and Jeffery D. Molkentin Circ Res. 2011;108:176-183; published online before print December 2 2010, doi:10...

Saba Bank, a submerged atoll in the Caribbean Sea with an area of 2,200 km2, has attained international conservation status due to the rich diversity of species that reside on the bank. In order to assess the role of Saba Bank as a potential reservoir of diversity for the surrounding reefs, we examined the population genetic structure, abundance and health status of two prominent benthic specie...

Asthma control is improved by combining inhaled corticosteroids with long-acting beta2-agonists. However, fluctuating asthma control still occurs. We hypothesized that in patients receiving low maintenance dose budesonide/formoterol (bud/form), replacing short-acting beta2-agonist (SABA) reliever with as-needed bud/form would provide rapid symptom relief and simultaneous adjustment in antiinfla...

The Ulster Medical Society grants to all users on the basis of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence the right to alter or build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creation is licensed under identical terms. 4. Derouin F, Bultel C, Roze S. AFSSA (Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments). Toxoplasm...

the holy quran exerted great influence on hafiz sonnets. sometimes this influence has been symbolic and open to different poetic and figurative interpretations. hafiz has adopted quranic words and expressed them in beautiful ways with strong effect. it seems there is a high amount of correspondence between hafiz’s sonnet 216 and the story of solomon in the quran (surah naml) in wording, notio...

Asthma has become a major health problem in Asia, with a prevalence in many Asian countries approaching that of developed nations. The regular use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) has been shown in cohort and ecological studies to decrease hospital admission rates by up to 80%. 2 Asthma related mortality has also been shown to decline with ICS use, even at low doses. 3 4 Conversely, increased u...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate employees and managers’ satisfaction of transportation system in the steal and rolling Units of Saba in Mobarakeh Steel Company using the intuitionistic fuzzy data. The statistical population included the personnel of Saba Steel and Rolling Units from Mobarakeh Steel Company including 1800 people.

Helicobacter pylori adhesion to gastric epithelial cells constitutes a key step in the establishment of a successful infection of the gastric mucosa. The high representation of outer membrane proteins in the bacterial genome suggests the relevance of those proteins in the establishment of profitable interactions with the host gastric cells. Gastric epithelial cells are protected by a mucous lay...