Tekst poświęcony jest projektowi Bem Przemysława Branasa. Artysta wyruszył w 2016 roku podróż z Tarnowa do Aleppo, śledząc tym samym trasę, jaką 1929 przebyło ciało Józefa Bema, zmarłego i pochowanego 1850 właśnie na terenie współczesnej Syrii. Autorka artykułu dowodzi, że swojej twórczości Branas porusza istotne kwestie związane polską pamięcią zbiorową, ale problematyką dekolonizacji oraz zwr...

BACKGROUND Despite the growing burden of injuries worldwide, Syria and many other Arab countries still lack population-based estimates of different types of injuries. This study aims to provide first population-based estimates of major injuries in Syria and characterize groups at increased risk. METHODS An interviewer-administered population-based survey of adults 18-65 years residing in Alep...

Sarcoptes mite from collection to DNA extraction forms the cornerstone for studies on Sarcoptes scabiei. Whilst the new science era took a shy leap into the different facets of mite studies, the cornerstone was almost entirely neglected. Mite collection, cleaning, storage and DNA extraction were, basically, humble attempts to extrapolate, adapt, modify or ‘pirate’ those existing methods to the ...

The authors present the epidemiological status of brucellosis in cattle and small ruminants in Syria from 1990 to 1996, based on laboratory findings at the Brucellosis Centre, Damascus. Initial investigations using the Rose Bengal plate test, the complement fixation test and a miniaturised variant of the slow agglutination test were conducted throughout the country in 1990 and 1991, revealing a...

Monitoring the impact of changes in land use/land cover (LULC) and surface temperature (LST) is great importance environmental urban studies. In this context, study aimed to analyze dynamics LULC its on spatiotemporal variation LST two largest cities Syria, Damascus, Aleppo. To achieve this, changes, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), were calculated from multi-temporal Landsat data...