Stroke is defined by World Health Organization (WHO) as rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (or global) disturbance of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting 24 h or longer, or leading to death, with no apparent cause other than of non-traumatic vascular origin1.Stroke is the third most common cause of death in the developed world after heart disease and cancer, after the age of 40 and...

1Central Department of Maternal and Child Health, Ministry of Health, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 2Department of Haematology, Central and Al Jazira Hospitals, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Received: 10/04/03; accepted: 15/03/04 ABSTRACT In January 2002, a pilot programme of neonatal screening for sickle cell disease was launched in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 3 districts of Abu Dh...

since the appearance of the knowledge of syntax the grammarians made an effort to develop the rules of arabic language, through which the quran was sent down. to do this they considered some principles:1 ) to develop the rules of syntax they only referred to the language of arab noble and eloquent tribes. 2) they developed the rules of syntax based on the widespread and prevalent language of ar...

this study attempts to review and analyze abu-firas's roomiia ode and identify the elements composing it by going through the text rhetorically and semantically. in this research the special quality of the ode has affected the selection of the method and coming to a result. in this paper, the authors have taken advantage of the method called discourse analysis of poem, the effective technique t...

The material object in this study is the poem “Abu Tamam book Al Muwazanah Baina Syiir Abu Wa Buhturi”. formal of research Michael Riffatere's semiotic theory. method descriptive qualitative. results through "heuristic reading, reading hermeneutics, matrices and hypograms on Tamam's syiir entitled "Al-Dua li Al-Diyar Bi Al-Saqayaa Al-Khosbu Al-Nabaat", first stanza convey message about hope for...