Stroke affects around 20 million people around the world every year. Clinically, stroke is a result of brain damage due to the shortage of oxygen delivered to the nerve cells. To minimize suffering and costs related to the disease, extensive research is performed on different levels. The focus of our research is to achieve fundamental understanding on how the lack of oxygen in brain tissue acti...

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The Idiocerinae of Pakistan are reviewed and a new species, Tasnimocerus sindhensis sp. nov. (Pakistan: Tandojam), is described and illustrated from Pakistan. Two new junior synonyms of Idioscopus nitidulus (Walker) are recognized: Idioscopus karachiensis Ahmed, Naheed & Ahmed syn. nov. and I. freytagi Ahmed, Naheed & Ahmed syn. nov. Idioscopus nagpurensis (Pruthi) is newly recorded from Pakist...

Allah Resûlü’nün vefatından sonra İslam dünyasında yaşanan siyasi çalkantılar, sıkıntılar, haçlı tehdidi vb. sebeplerle Müslümanlar manevi destek arayışına girmişlerdir. Ayrıca şairler, ruhi ve bedeni rahatsızlıklarına şifa ummak, gönüllerindeki peygamber sevgisini izhar etmek, edebi sanatların öğrenilmesine katkı sağlamak gibi düşüncelerle Hz. Peygamber’i konu alan kasideler yazmışlardır. H. 7...

PURPOSE Long-term intraocular pressure reduction by glaucoma drainage devices (GDDs) is often limited by the fibrotic capsule that forms around them. Prior work demonstrates that modifying a GDD with a porous membrane promotes a vascularized and more permeable capsule. This work examines the in vitro fluid dynamics of the Ahmed valve after enclosing the outflow tract with a porous membrane of e...

Activation of Nrf2 by Ischemic Preconditioning and Sulforaphane in Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury: A Comparative Experimental Study By Ahmed A. Shokeir*, Nashwa Barakat*, Abdelaziz M. Hussein†, Amira Awadalla*, Ahmed Harraz*, Shery Khater*, Kamel Hemmaid $ , Ahmed I. Kamal* From *Urology and Nephrology Center, †Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura, University, $ Faculty of Sc...

The population-ecology approach (the natural-selection model) used to be a major orientation in consideration of organizational change and transformation. It is presented by its proponents as a theory distinct from structural contingency theory. This theory begins by rejecting the claim of contingency theory that organizations are adaptive. Contingency theory understands that the social and bus...

The primary education sector in Pakistan faces many challenges relating to access to education and quality of resources. This paper evaluates the Educational Voucher Scheme (EVS) in Lahore, Pakistan aimed at increasing access to primary schooling for low income families residing in the underdeveloped areas of Lahore by using the four criteria for evaluating privatization plans in education outl...

Abdi Ahmed Bonahy, Houssam Sabbah, Ahmed Haiba Med Vadell, Nacer Eddine Med Baba Département Mère et Enfant, Faculté de Médicine de Nouakchott, Mauritanie, Maternité du Centre Hospitalier National (CHN) de Nouakchott, Mauritanie, Service d’Anatomopathologie du Centre Hospitalier National (CHN) de Nouakchott, Mauritanie Corresponding author: Abdi Ahmed Bonahy, Département Mère et Enfant, Faculté...

The purpose of this paper is to study common fixed point theorems for a setvalued and single-valued mappings in a metric spaces. Generalizations and extensions of known results are thereby obtained. In particular, the theorems by Ahmed [1], Ahmed [2], Rashwan and Ahmed [13], Skof [16], Rhoades, Tiwary and Singh [14] and Kiventidis [10] are improved.