WILLY J. MALAISSE, CARMEN SÁNCHEZ-SOTO, M. ELENA LARRIETA, MARCIA HIRIART, HASSAN JIJAKLI, CONCEPCIÓN VIÑAMBRES, MARÍA L. VILLANUEVA-PEÑACARRILLO, ISABEL VALVERDE, OLE KIRK, MARCEL M. KADIATA, AND ABDULLAH SENER Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Brussels Free University, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium; Department of Biophysics, Institute of Cellular Physiology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méx...

It is with great sorrow that we heard of the passing away of Ahmed H. Zewail, the father of Femtochemistry and the pioneer of ultrafast electron-based Science, on August 2, 2016. This represents a tremendous loss not only for the scientific community but also for humanity, as he was a real Statesman. In 1987, Ahmed Zewail published a short communication in the Journal of Chemical Physics that s...

vibrio cholerae o1 are classified into two biotypes, classical and el tor based on susceptibility to bacteriophages and some biochemical properties, each encoding a biotype-specific genetic determinants. before 1961, most epidemics had been caused by the classical biotype. however, with the passage of time, the classical biotype missed from the scenario and the el tor emerged as the major bioty...

The influence of explant nodal positions on the in vitro shoot growth and proliferation were studied in the two rose cvs. ‘Bianca’ and ‘El Torro’. Third, fourth and fifth nodal explants were cultured on the modified MS medium supplemented with 1.0 and 5.0 mg/l BA. In both the cultivars, higher rate of proliferation (‘Bianca’ 3.75; ‘El Torro’ 2.65) were obtained from the explants distal to the a...

We present Hassan, a virtual human who engages in Tactical Questioning dialogues. We describe the tactical questioning domain, the motivation for this character, the specific architecture and present brief examples and an evaluation.

Hassan FathyTraducción: Cristina RamosArquitectura para los pobresEdiciones Asimétricas, 2021

Islamic legal theory (popularly known as uṣū al-fiqh in term) runs into difficulties when dealing with social and humanities issues. Religious texts, according to Hassan Hanafi’s perspective, should not only be positioned a source of law, but also at the same time must seen phenomenological experiences religiosity. The dialectic religious text today's empirical context needs reformulated. By us...