Abu Mansur's Al-Abniya a pioneering work on pharmacological treatise in Persian language, has not received the attention that it richly deserves. This work provides as a starting point to probe into the hitherto neglected field of study regarding the relationship of medical systems prevalent in Central, West and South Asia-Greco-Syriac, Iranian and Ayurvedic medical sciences.

The effect of the emerging omicron variant on willingness to take or continue with COVID-19 vaccination in Middle EastTareq L. Mukattash, Anan S. Jarab, Rana K. Abu-Farha, Rania Itani, Samar Karout, Razan Z. Mansour, Shorouq Abuhishmah

The present study deal with determination of Se:Hg ratio in six fish species collected from Shatt Al-Arab river during the period June 2010 to Augest 2010. Muscles most important commercial C. Carpio, B. luteus, L. abu, T. zilli, sharpeyi and ilisha have been analyzed after wet digestion a mixture concentrated acids (HClO4 / HNO3).The obtained results show that abu having highest ratio, while l...

It has been recently suggested by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali that gravity may become strong at energies not far above the electroweak scale and thus remove the hierarchy problem. Such a scenario can be tested at both present and future accelerators since towers of Kaluza-Klein gravitons and associated scalar fields now play an important phenomenological role. In this paper we examine se...

Microbial acquisition of nutrients in vivo is a fundamental aspect of infectious diseases, and is a potential target for antimicrobial therapy. Part of the innate host defense against microbial infection is nutritional restriction of access to sources of host nutrients (Abu Kwaik and Bumann, 2013; Eisenreich et al., 2013). Despite this host nutritional restriction, there has been a long held pr...

Streptococcus agalactiae causes both symptomatic cystitis and asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU); however, growth characteristics of S. agalactiae in human urine have not previously been reported. Here, we describe a phenotype of robust growth in human urine observed in ABU-causing S. agalactiae (ABSA) that was not seen among uropathogenic S. agalactiae (UPSA) strains isolated from patients with ac...

General reviews on var ious aspects of this subjec t were m a d e recent ly b y M Ö H L M A N N (1), R Ö H R E R (2), Z A T O C I L and G ILKA (3), N A U R Y Z B A E V (4), W I T T M A N N (5) and H E S S (6). The re have also been m a n y brief discussions as wel l as i m p o r t a n t new data repor ted on t h e sub jec t s ince the reviews. Nevertheless, m u c h of the m o r e i m p o r t a ...

1Division of Science and Math and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB), New York University Abu Dhabi, P.O. Box 129188, Abu Dhabi, UAE 2Center for Systems Biology and Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland 3National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and ...

Normal face-based judgements of social characteristics despite severely impaired holistic face processing Susanne Quadflieg a c , Alexander Todorov b , Renaud Laguesse c & Bruno Rossion c a Division of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE b Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA c Department of Psychology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Bel...