In last issue of the Journal, Badr, et al (1) described a case report of 32 years old otherwise healthy man with bilateral epididymal agenesis. In medicine, agenesis refers to the failure of an organ to develop during embryonal time due to the absence of primordial tissue. Since secondary epididymal atrophy in this case could not be rolled out the term agenesis is inadequate and misleading. Par...

Abbasid caliphs in the Islamic world systematically encouraged translation of ancient Greek books on science and technology large numbers. And this process, knowledge related to automata also spread world. The leading scholars who touched development were Philo Byzantium Hero Alexandria. Philo's book "Pneumatics" was translated into Arabic Baghdad. Meanwhile, works Hero, including Mechanic, wit...

Badr Saad T. Alkahtani 1 and Abdon Atangana 2,* 1 Department of Mathematics, Colleges of Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 1142, Riyadh 11989, Saudi Arabia; [email protected] 2 Institute for Groundwater Studies, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +27-51-401-3744; Fax...

Wāridāt includes important data related to metaphysical aspects of Shaykh Badr al-Dīn’s thought. However, the work itself is inadequate draw a clear and complete picture. Moreover, its stylistic content-related structure makes continuous debates between researchers inevitable. ideas oscillate waḥdat al- mawjūd, which can also be considered as naïve pantheism, al-wujūd. On other hand, al-Dīn him...

Health disparities in sleep medicine: Responses to the american sleep medicine foundation Humanitarian projects award program Merrill S. Wise, M.D.1; Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D.2; Safwan Badr, M.D.3; Reut Gruber, Ph.D.4; Susan Redline, M.D.5; Steven A. Shea, Ph.D.5 1Methodist Healthcare Sleep Disorders Center, Memphis, TN; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 3Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; 4McGil...

The UK Drug Utilization Research Group's (DURG) Regional Meeting 'New Horizons: Pharmacovigilance' was hosted by the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) at Southampton on 19 May 2000. Opening the meeting, Dr Keith Beard, UK DURG chairman, welcomed delegates and speakers and thanked the DSRU team for hosting the meeting. With reference to the theme of the meeting - new horizons in pharmacovigilance...

African Neurology has come of age. On the 29–31 August 2015 a landmark meeting was held in Dakar, Senegal. Delegates from 33 African countries representing their national neurologic societies and associations gathered to decide on the future of Neurology in Africa. Themeeting was held under the aegis of theWorld Federation of Neurology (WFN) Africa Initiative Task and Advisory Force for Africa ...