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Trans-Nasal Route. The New Way Of Upper Gastrointestinal Technique Diagnostic Endoscopy, Mohamed A. Al-Karawi Jan 2000

Trans-Nasal Route. The New Way Of Upper Gastrointestinal Technique Diagnostic Endoscopy, Mohamed A. Al-Karawi

Saudi Medical Journal

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A Case For User Charges In Public Hospitals, Mohammed H. Mufti Jan 2000

A Case For User Charges In Public Hospitals, Mohammed H. Mufti

Saudi Medical Journal

The present decline in per capita expenditure on health in Saudi Arabia requires private funding to reduce pressure of health expenditure on the government budget. User charges would be an important source of revenue in the Kingdom where services cannot be cut and taxes are not imposed. User charges in public facilities would curtail over-utilization and reduce inefficient use of resources by providing a link between financial responsibility and the provision of services. The financial implication facing patients would encourage them to be more cost-conscience, and therefore their physicians would be encouraged to limit practices such as over prescribing drugs …

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Old And New Anti-Epileptic Drugs In Pregnancy, Giovanni Regesta, Paolo Tanganelli Jan 2000

Old And New Anti-Epileptic Drugs In Pregnancy, Giovanni Regesta, Paolo Tanganelli

Saudi Medical Journal

During the recent years, a significant number of anti-epileptic drugs have been approved for prescription in different countries. In addition, some other promising drugs are in various stages of development. Soon after each drug has found its place in the therapeutic arsenal, pregnancies with exposure occur, with an increased risk of birth defect and developmental disturbances. As regards the possible teratogenic effect of the new anti-epileptic drugs, apart some individual reports we have only the results of pre-clinical toxicological studies which are difficult to extrapolate to the human situation, because of the well-known interspecies differences in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Furthermore, …

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Adolescent Endocrinology In Saudi Arabia, Mohamed A. Abdullah, Hamad S. Al-Salhi, Mona A. Anani, Liza Q. Melendrez Jan 2000

Adolescent Endocrinology In Saudi Arabia, Mohamed A. Abdullah, Hamad S. Al-Salhi, Mona A. Anani, Liza Q. Melendrez

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The importance of providing special health care services for adolescents has been recently stressed. In Saudi Arabia, adolescents have no special services. In this study, we describe our first 5 years experience of an adolescent endocrinology clinic in Security Forces Hospital. We believe it is the first clinic with this objective in the Kingdom. METHODS: An adolescent endocrinology clinic was run by a team composed of pediatric endocrinologist, diabetic nurse educator, clinic nurse and a dietician in collaboration with other supportive staff and consultants from other disciplines. The methodology of setting up, staffing and running the clinic is described. …

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Thyroid Function In Cord Blood, Gerard Henry, Samia H. Sobki, Najla M. Al-Beshara, Mimmi E. Harkonen, Helen R Miller, Basil J. Al-Nakeeb Jan 2000

Thyroid Function In Cord Blood, Gerard Henry, Samia H. Sobki, Najla M. Al-Beshara, Mimmi E. Harkonen, Helen R Miller, Basil J. Al-Nakeeb

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the biochemical parameters of thyroid function in the cord blood of Saudi infants. METHODS: Cord blood samples sent to the Pathology Department for screening for congenital hypothyroidism were used to determine the reference ranges for thyrotropin, free thyroxine, free triiodothyronine, thyroxine-binding globulin and thyroglobulin. All the measurements were carried out by immunoassay (Elisa, microparticle enzyme immunoassay or chemiluminescence immunoassay). Reference ranges were calculated after exclusion of outliers. RESULTS: Reference ranges for thyrotropin, free thyroxine and thyroxine-binding globulin were similar to published values, whereas those for free triiodothyronine and thyroglobulin were different. CONCLUSION: For correct interpretation of the …

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Substance Dependence. A Hospital Based Survey, Nayyer Iqbal Jan 2000

Substance Dependence. A Hospital Based Survey, Nayyer Iqbal

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To collect basic data on multiple and diverse issues such as drugs of dependence, smoking, initiation age, injection related harm, nutritional status, trauma, accidents, abnormal laboratory parameters and co-morbid conditions. METHODS: Seven hundred and ninety nine subjects from a voluntary detoxification unit were studied. Four hundred and ninety seven charts from June 1995 to December 1995 were reviewed retrospectively. For the other 302 subjects admitted between September 1996 to December 1996, information regarding drug use, smoking, trauma, accidents and co-morbid conditions was recorded during the admission interview while the remaining data was later obtained from the charts. RESULTS: Sixty …

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Parkinson's Disease. Clinical And Electrophysiological Evaluation, Muneera A. Al-Bunyan Jan 2000

Parkinson's Disease. Clinical And Electrophysiological Evaluation, Muneera A. Al-Bunyan

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Identification of the clinical spectrum and the electrophysiological responses of a Saudi population with Parkinson9s disease as opposed to a matched normal population. METHODS: Fifty four subjects (41 males and 13 females) were selected for the study. The patients were clinically evaluated for the occurrence of Parkinson9s disease symptoms, as well as other associated medical conditions. All patients had brain computerized tomography scans. Electrophysiological tests were performed on all patients using the Medelec ST 10 Sensor 59394 Model. These tests included somatosensory evoked response of median nerves, brain stem auditory evoked responses and visual evoked responses. The significant differences …

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Smoking Habits Of Students In College Of Applied Medical Science, Saudi Arabia, Talal J. Hasim Jan 2000

Smoking Habits Of Students In College Of Applied Medical Science, Saudi Arabia, Talal J. Hasim

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To establish a baseline data on the smoking habits of health science students in a Saudi Arabian university environment. METHODS: The participating subjects were students of the College of Applied Medical Sciences within the age range of 18 to 26. An experimental design with pre-structured questionnaires, and simple random sampling was administered to 712 participants by a panel of experts in behavioral health sciences. RESULTS: Out of 647 respondents, 186 (29%) were current smokers. Of those that indicated that they were currently smokers, 127 (20%) were male and 59 (9%) were female. The 20-24 year old age group exhibited …

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An Unusual Association Between Oral Sarcoma And Bulbar Palsy, Tayseer M. Zein, Eivind J. Carlsen, Zein M. Mirghani Jan 2000

An Unusual Association Between Oral Sarcoma And Bulbar Palsy, Tayseer M. Zein, Eivind J. Carlsen, Zein M. Mirghani

Saudi Medical Journal

A 90 year old male presented with symptoms and signs of right lower cranial nerves palsy. A small mass was found on the right side at the back of his mouth. Light microscopy and histoimmunochemical studies of the biopsy of the mass showed an alveolar soft part sarcoma arising from the right myohyoid muscle. The unusual location and presentation of this rare tumor is discussed.

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Spontaneous Intraperitoneal Expulsion Of An Unruptured Hydatid Cyst, Bal G. Sharma, Krishn K. Gupta Jan 2000

Spontaneous Intraperitoneal Expulsion Of An Unruptured Hydatid Cyst, Bal G. Sharma, Krishn K. Gupta

Saudi Medical Journal

We report a 43-year-old man with a 20 x 20 cm hydatid cyst, spontaneously extruded out from the left lobe of the liver. This complication of hydatid cyst has not been recorded earlier, and makes the case unique in itself and worth reporting. The patient presented with a rare complication of biliary peritonitis of hydatid disease.

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Clinical Features Versus Laboratory Values. An Infant With Transient Neonatal Hypothyroidism., Shabih Manzar Jan 2000

Clinical Features Versus Laboratory Values. An Infant With Transient Neonatal Hypothyroidism., Shabih Manzar

Saudi Medical Journal

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Primary Malignant Lymphoma Of Bone, Suresh K. Dargan, Shakeel A. Qidwai Jan 2000

Primary Malignant Lymphoma Of Bone, Suresh K. Dargan, Shakeel A. Qidwai

Saudi Medical Journal

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Dealing With Histories Of Oppression: Black And Jewish Reactions To Passivity And Collaboration In William Styron's Confessions Of Nat Turner And Hannah Arendt's Eichmann In Jerusalem, David Abraham, Kimberly A. Mccoy Jan 2000

Dealing With Histories Of Oppression: Black And Jewish Reactions To Passivity And Collaboration In William Styron's Confessions Of Nat Turner And Hannah Arendt's Eichmann In Jerusalem, David Abraham, Kimberly A. Mccoy

Articles

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Disorderly Conduct: Day Traders And The Ideology Of "Fair And Orderly Markets", Caroline Bradley Jan 2000

Disorderly Conduct: Day Traders And The Ideology Of "Fair And Orderly Markets", Caroline Bradley

Articles

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Shifting Power For Battered Women: Law, Material Resources, And Poor Women Of Color, Donna Coker Jan 2000

Shifting Power For Battered Women: Law, Material Resources, And Poor Women Of Color, Donna Coker

Articles

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Coattail Class Actions: Reflections On Microsoft, Tobacco, And The Mixing Of Public And Private Lawyering In Mass Litigation , Howard M. Erichson Jan 2000

Coattail Class Actions: Reflections On Microsoft, Tobacco, And The Mixing Of Public And Private Lawyering In Mass Litigation , Howard M. Erichson

Faculty Scholarship

Ask anyone who follows legal news to name the two biggest litigation news stories in the United States at the start of the twenty-first century, and they will answer without blinking: Microsoft and tobacco. The Microsoft litigation, they will tell you, claims a place in the pantheon of antitrust landmarks that includes Standard Oil, Alcoa, and AT&T. The tobacco litigation is the most massive in a string of mass torts including asbestos, Dalkon Shield, and breast implants; it is arguably the most important public health matter ever litigated. Microsoft and tobacco each fit so well and so interestingly in their …

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Review Of Minding The Law, By Anthony G. Amsterdam And Jerome Bruner, James L. Kainen Jan 2000

Review Of Minding The Law, By Anthony G. Amsterdam And Jerome Bruner, James L. Kainen

Faculty Scholarship

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Delgado, Hegel And The Rodrigo Chronicles, George A. Martinez Jan 2000

Delgado, Hegel And The Rodrigo Chronicles, George A. Martinez

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Richard Delgado has made path-breaking contributions to the literature on race and American law. His Rodrigo Chronicles are already classics of the Critical Race Theory genre. It is, therefore, wholly appropriate that the Harvard Latino Law Review dedicated a symposium issue to an examination of the Rodrigo Chronicles and Delgado's other work. In this symposium essay, the author attempts to illuminate Delgado's project in the Chronicles through an examination of various aspects of Hegel's philosophy. Hegel's philosophy allows us to better understand Delgado's work in the Chronicles and elsewhere.

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Section 1983 Litigation - Supreme Court Developments, Martin A. Schwartz Jan 2000

Section 1983 Litigation - Supreme Court Developments, Martin A. Schwartz

Touro Law Review

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Kumho Tire Co. V. Carmichael: The Supreme Court Follows Up On The Daubert Test, Martin A. Schwartz Jan 2000

Kumho Tire Co. V. Carmichael: The Supreme Court Follows Up On The Daubert Test, Martin A. Schwartz

Touro Law Review

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Rit Dividends Winter 2000 Jan 2000

Rit Dividends Winter 2000

RIT Digital Archives

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2000-2001 Graduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology Jan 2000

2000-2001 Graduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

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Rit Financial Applications Jan 2000, Sponsored Programs Accounting Jan 2000

Rit Financial Applications Jan 2000, Sponsored Programs Accounting

RIT Digital Archives

This newsletter is published four times a year and will include regular features, process changes, sponsoring agency announcements, a calendar of upcoming events, and personal introductions to SPA staff.

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Evaluating A Change To Seminar-Style Teaching, Kirsten Anker, Catherine Dauvergne, Mark Findlay, Jenni Millbank Jan 2000

Evaluating A Change To Seminar-Style Teaching, Kirsten Anker, Catherine Dauvergne, Mark Findlay, Jenni Millbank

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

While the use of small to medium-sized seminar-style groups has long been a feature of some Australian law faculties, such as the University of New South Wales, it is a recent innovation in others, including the University of Western Australia and the University of Adelaide. In March 1996 the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney made a decision to move from a traditional lecture and tutorial structure to seminar-style classes of limited size. This article discusses the reasons for the move away from a traditional lecture/ tutorial format to an interactive seminar-style model of teaching. The paper explains …

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The Singapore Legal System – History, Theory And Practice, Andrew B.L. Phang Jan 2000

The Singapore Legal System – History, Theory And Practice, Andrew B.L. Phang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Law is central to order and stability and, without order and stability, societal as well as economic viability (let alone progress) are impossible The alternative is 'rule of man', and all the dangers of fallibility and (consequently) despotism that that entails. One central difficulty has, of course, been the maintenance of the argument that law is consonant with objective truth for if the law does not in fact possess this quality, then the 'rule of law' turns out to be the 'rule of man' after all. However, it is difficult, on rational grounds at least, to reject the concept of …

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Contract Law At Century's End: Some Personal Reflections, Andrew B.L. Phang Jan 2000

Contract Law At Century's End: Some Personal Reflections, Andrew B.L. Phang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

As we approach the end of the second millennium, the common law of contract-transplanted via colonialism into many lands and climes-has indeed flourished. It has certainly developed apace in the land of its origin, England, but has also evolved in distinct directions elsewhere, particularly in Australia and New Zealand.2 But this development is simply part of a continuous process and a great many interesting issues remain to be considered at the commencement of the next millennium and beyond. This is due, in part, to the very diversity that has been briefly alluded to. However, even on a more general level, …

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Some Remarks On Fair Exchange Protocol, Jianying Zhou, Robert H. Deng, Feng Bao Jan 2000

Some Remarks On Fair Exchange Protocol, Jianying Zhou, Robert H. Deng, Feng Bao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Fair exchange turns out to be an increasingly important topic due to the rapid growth of electronic commerce. An exchange is deemed to be fair if at the end of exchange, either each party receives the expected item or neither party receives any useful information about the other’s item. Several protocols for fair exchange have been proposed in recent years. In this paper, we first examine a newly published fair exchange protocol and point out its flaws and weaknesses. We then put forward a more efficient and secure protocol and give an informal analysis.

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The Implications Of The Knowledge Economy For Venture Promotion Policies, Teck Meng Tan, Wee Liang Tan Jan 2000

The Implications Of The Knowledge Economy For Venture Promotion Policies, Teck Meng Tan, Wee Liang Tan

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The advent of the knowledge economy brings with it needed new public policy initiatives on the part of governments desiring to ensure that enterprises in their economies are able to participate and excel in this new arena. The knowledge economy brings with it opportunities for new ventures as it embroils the global economy in a revolution where information technology is a pervasive and enabling force; where knowledge is the critical asset. This paper explores the implications this revolution for small and medium-sized enterprises and suggests policy initiatives that would assist in promoting ventures for this brave new world.

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Entrepreneurial Infrastructure In Singapore: Developing A Model And Mapping Participation, Teck Meng Tan, Wee Liang Tan, John E. Young Jan 2000

Entrepreneurial Infrastructure In Singapore: Developing A Model And Mapping Participation, Teck Meng Tan, Wee Liang Tan, John E. Young

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Entrepreneurial infrastructure, as the term is used in this article, represents the facilities and services present within a given geographic area which encourage the birth of new ventures and the growth and development of small- and medium- sized enterprises. The model of entrepreneurial infrastructure developed here and applied to the nation of Singapore suggests that they provide support to poten tial new business owners, owners of small growing businesses, and existing small- and medium-sized enterprises by way of assisting them with tasks, physical and monetary resources, information and knowledge. This article also develops a map ping function to predict the …

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The Wto, Looking Ahead, Mike Moore Jan 2000

The Wto, Looking Ahead, Mike Moore

Fordham International Law Journal

In this Essay, I would like to focus simply on some key points which I believe are central to the WTO's present, and also to its future. This Essay begins by discussing the importance of the rule of law to the WTOs work. Part II talks about changes that have come with an expanding membership. Part III concludes with a review of recent events and an optimistic outlook for the WTO.

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