BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world's deadliest communicable diseases. In Ethiopia, tuberculosis patients have different pattern of health care seeking behavior. They usually adopt other approaches like traditional healers and spiritual holy water sites before consulting public health facilities. This study was aimed to assess the prevalence of smear positive pulmonary tubercu...

For any integer N ^ 3 we will construct a 3-manifold which can be described as +1 surgery on N distinct knots in S. We will also give examples of 3-manifolds which are i^-fold cyclic branched covers of S over 2 distinct knots. Brakes (2) discovered the first examples of 3-manifolds with multiple knot surgery descriptions. Our construction is much different and follows directly from the construc...

story has long been exploited to transfer human culture and concepts. it is the most consistent verbal form to the human mind. therefore, its audience spectrum is more widespread and its influence power is higher. though the qur'an's main language is the language of religion and spiritual guidance, it exploits the storytelling method in its complete form to disseminate its message.  u...

A number of application-specific searching mechanisms, including keyword searching in textual databases, can he implemented naturally in a relational DIIMS using abst.rnct clat.atypes and user-defined operators. For qur:~-y efficicucy these operators and abstract datat,ypes must be supported by indices. A new indexing scheme is p~.oposcd which allows 3 large class of query predicAea 14~ bc eval...

Membaca dan memahami Al-Qur‟an adalah suatu keharusan karena merupakan sumber utama bagi umat Islam dalam menjalankan kehidupan sehari- hari. Kemampuan siswa membaca masih belum maksimal. Hal ini terlihat dari yang paham tentang hukum bacaan ilmu tajwid lemah pelafasan huruf sehingga ada benar menerapkan ketika Al-Qur‟an. Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana metode tahsin digunakan o...