The nonstinging house ant, Monomorium pharaonis (pharaoh ant), was recently identified as a cause of respiratory allergy. This study was performed to evaluate the extent of sensitization to pharaoh ant, and its clinical significance in asthmatic patients. We carried out skin prick tests in 318 patients with asthma. Specific IgE (sIgE) to pharaoh ant was measured by ELISA, and cross-reactivity w...

Dimitrov, D. S., 2014. the lachrymal gland in manchurian and Pharaoh Japanese quails – A histometrical investigation. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 20: 1498-1501 the study was carried out on 40 sexually mature and clinically healthy Japanese quails (20 females and 20 males) from the stock hybrids manchurian Golden and Pharaoh. After weighing and determination of metric parameters, 80 lachrymal glands w...

Pharaoh is a widely-used state-of-the-art decoder for phrasal statistical machine translation. In this paper, we present two modifications to the algorithm used by Pharaoh that together permit much faster decoding without losing translation quality as measured by BLEU score. The first modification improves the estimated translation model score used by Pharaoh to evaluate partial hypotheses, by ...

This course examines images of Middle Eastern women and their reception in the Middle East and the West. Through an exploration of notable women such as Cleopatra, Mary mother of Jesus and the Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, we address how political and social issues have been and are played out upon women. Our knowledge of real Middle Eastern female role models is expanded by discussion of women ...

Previous studies have confirmed the potential of hyperspectral spectroscopy (HS) to detect charcoal rot toxin effect on soybean (Glycine max). However, there is no evidence that it can differentiate among difference responses effect. This research tested HS (900–2400 nm) different caused by fungal pathogen Macrophomina phaseolina. Known susceptible ‘Pharaoh’ and resistant ‘Spencer’ cultivars se...

In Exodus 2, Moses has two mothers; his Hebrew mother, who nurses him and the daughter of Pharaoh, financially supports adopts him, names him. Pharaoh’s appears in scholarly discussions, yet little attention is given to her role as mother Moses. Indeed, this motherhood downplayed biblical texts, also scholarship, wherein Pharaoh absent from many discussions mothers at times relegated beneath bi...