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South Asia In 2020: Future Strategic Balances And Alliances, Michael R. Chambers Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

This volume consists of revised versions of papers presented at conference sponsored by the Asia/Pacific Research Center and the Center for International Security and Cooperation of Stanford University, and the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute on January 4-5, 2002. While there are numerous ways to approach the question of "whither South Asia?" the conference organizers decided to focus on the future of strategic balances and alliances in the region, with 2020 as the target date. This choice of topic allowed the conference participants to talk not only about the patterns of amity and enmity within the region, but …

South Asia In 2020: Future Strategic Balances And Alliances, Michael R. Chambers Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

This volume consists of revised versions of papers presented at conference sponsored by the Asia/Pacific Research Center and the Center for International Security and Cooperation of Stanford University, and the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute on January 4-5, 2002. While there are numerous ways to approach the question of "whither South Asia?" the conference organizers decided to focus on the future of strategic balances and alliances in the region, with 2020 as the target date. This choice of topic allowed the conference participants to talk not only about the patterns of amity and enmity within the region, but …

Prevalence Of And Factors Associated With Anxiety And Depression Among Women In A Lower Middle Class Semi-Urban Community Of Karachi, Pakistan, B S. Ali, M H. Rahbar, S Naeem, A L. Tareen, A Gul, L Samad

Community Health Sciences

Objective: To study the prevalence of, and factors associated with anxiety and depression among women.Design: A cross sectional survey.SETTING: A lower middle class semi-urban community of Karachi, Pakistan.PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1218 women between the ages of 18-50 years.METHODOLOGY: Systematically every third household was identified from which a woman was randomly selected. The Aga Khan University Anxiety and Depression Scale and a socio-demographic questionnaire were administered verbally by trained interviewers for assessing the prevalence of, and associated factors for anxiety and depression.Results: A prevalence of 30% was found. Increasing age, lack of education and verbal abuse were the associated factors …

Relevance Of Some Of The Theories Of Ibn Khaldoun In His "Al Muqaddimah" To Contemporary Medicine. A Personal Interpretation, Abdulla A. Al-Khader

Saudi Medical Journal

The subjects in this paper include Ibn Khaldoun9s thoughts on writing, and their implications on today9s medical writing. This paper discusses why people write, plagiarism, "Original" and "Copied9 writings and where history writing goes wrong and how this can be applied to Medical writing today. The paper also discusses the nature of Science and Knowledge as viewed by Ibn Khaldoun, the anatomy of intelligence, types of thought processes, and effects of environment and craftsmanship on intellect. Ibn Khaldoun9s definition of the "Medical" profession and its social standing is discussed as well as his emphasis of the importance of exercise, diet …

Research And Research Activities In A University In Eastern Saudi Arabia, Yussuf M. Al-Gindan, Abdulsalam A. Al-Sulaiman, Fahd A. Al-Muhanna, Mahdi S. Abumadini

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the present study was to obtain the views of faculty members regarding various aspects of scientific research, which is one of the essential functions of a University. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, between January and June 2001, using a standardized questionnaire to obtain the views of faculty members in both basic and clinical departments on issues related to scientific research. The questionnaire consisted of 41 items and the responses were assessed on a 5 point scale. The variables included specified objectives for …

Herbal Medicine In The Treatment Of Diabetes Mellitus, Norah A. Al-Rowais

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The use of herbs is common among diabetics. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of the use of herbs among diabetics and which herbs are used. Additionally, to investigate the effect of some demographic characteristics on the use of such herbs. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted on diabetic patients attending the outpatient clinics in 4 major hospitals in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These were: King Khalid University Hospital, King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Prince Salman Hospital and Riyadh Medical Complex over a 3-month period which started in September 1999. Patients were interviewed by …

Blood Sugar Control, Ophthalmology Referral And Creatinine Level Among Adult Diabetic Patients In Primary Health Care, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Yousef A. Al-Turki

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The objectives of the study were to review the blood sugar levels, duration of illness, referral to the Eye Clinic for Ophthalmology assessment, and basic renal function by creatinine level among adult diabetic patients in primary health care in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A retrospective study of medical records for diabetic adult patients at different age groups, of both sex, in 6 primary health care centers in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was carried out during the period from August 2000 to April 2001. RESULTS: The results of this study show that the duration of diabetes were …

Laparoscopic Versus Open Appendectomy In Females With A Clinical Diagnosis Of Appendicitis, Abdulrahman S. Al-Mulhim, Faisal M. Al-Mulhim, Abdulmohsen A. Al-Suwaiygh, Nabil A. Al-Masaud

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Appendectomy can be performed using either a laparoscopic technique (LT) or an open technique (OT). We compared the following items operative, anesthesia, length of stay, post-operative pain, medicine, wound healing, days to return to normal activity in both groups. METHODS: This study was carried out at King Fahad Hospital, Hofuf, Al-Hassa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from January 1999 to April 2000. We randomly assigned 60 female patients to appendectomy by LT or OT. The 2 groups were compared concerning demographic data. The differences were considered statistically significant at a P value < 0.05. RESULTS: The open group had shorter anesthesia and operative time (68, 50 versus 85, 65 minutes). The laparoscopic group had a significant reduced postoperative narcotic requirement (P<0.05), quicker reintroduction of diet and quicker return to normal activity. CONCLUSION: Laparoscopic appendectomy in female patients with clinical diagnosis of appendicitis is the procedure of choice for the diagnosis and the management of acute appendicitis.

Prevalence Of Hepatitis C Virus Antibodies Among Different Populations Of Relative And Attributable Risk, Mohamed A. Daw, Mohamed A. Elkaber, Aisha M. Drah, Mansour M. Werfalli, Abdulgadir A. Mihat, Ismail M. Siala

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies among 5 different population groups including; healthy individuals, blood donors, hospital health care workers, renal dialysis patients and multiple blood transfusion group. To compare the ratios, relative and attributable risk among these groups. To outline a specific policy to reduce the potential risk of HCV among the different groups studied. METHODS: A prospective study was carried out in the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tripoli, Libya, over a 2 year period for 1999 to 2001, to determine the prevalence of HCV-antibodies in sera collected from 5 distinct groups …

The Efficacy Of A Management Protocol In Reducing Emergency Visits And Hospitalizations In Chronic Asthmatics, Omer S. Alamoudi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether a simple protocol used in the outpatient’s asthma clinic was effective in reducing emergency room (ER) visits and hospitalizations in chronic asthmatics during a year of follow-up, and to evaluate which type of asthmatics, according to severity of asthma, may benefit more from the protocol. METHODS: Prospective assessment of a simple protocol (consisted of combined medical and educational aspects in the form of corticosteroids inhalation as a monotherapy and correction of the pitfalls of inhalation technique) in reducing ER visits, and hospitalization in chronic asthmatics. It was performed in the outpatients asthma clinic at King Abdul-Aziz …

Hematological Changes In Cement Mill Workers, Sultan A. Meo, Muhammad A. Azeem, Shoukat A. Arian, Merza M. Subhan

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Considering the hazards of exposure to cement dust, this study incorporated basic hematological parameters, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and the total leukocyte count. The idea was to identify a simple, readily available and cost effective screening test that could help in identifying the presence of disease, its severity, or both in cement mill workers potentially related to their work place. METHODS: This study was carried out in the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Hamdard University, Karachi and the University of Karachi, Pakistan, during the time frame 1999-2000. In this study a group of 50, apparently healthy …

Are We Underestimating The Leukemogenic Risk Of Hydroxyurea, Ali H. Al-Jam’A, Ibrahim A. Al-Dabbous, Adil A. Al-Khatti, Folayan G. Esan

Saudi Medical Journal

Hydroxyurea is an established drug that has been used for the treatment of myeloproliferative disorders and some solid tumors for some time. In recent years it has also been found to be effective in the treatment of sickle cell disease. Short term side effects are not serious, and are manageable. The major concern is the potential leukemogenesis with long term use. The risk of leukemogenesis is not defined with its use in benign hematological conditions. We report a case of acute myeloid leukemia with no preceding myelodysplastic syndrome, occurring after 2 years of hydroxyurea therapy in a patient with sickle …

Prevalence And Clinical Usefulness Of Thyroid Antibodies In Different Diseases Of Thyroid, Faiza A. Qari

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Associations Between Cardiorespiratory Fitness And C-Reactive Protein In Men, Timothy S. Church, Carolyn E. Barlow, Conrad P. Earnest, James B. Kampert, Elisa L. Priest, Steven N. Blair

Faculty Publications

Objective - This study examined the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and C-reactive protein (CRP), with adjustment for weight and within weight categories.

Methods and Results - We calculated median and adjusted geometric mean CRP levels, percentages of individuals with an elevated CRP (≥2.00 mg/L), and odds ratios of elevated CRP across 5 levels of cardiorespiratory fitness for 722 men. CRP values were adjusted for age, body mass index, vitamin use, statin medication use, aspirin use, the presence of inflammatory disease, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, and smoking habit. We found an inverse association of CRP across fitness levels (P for …

Random Graph Process Models For Angiogenesis, Louis V. Quintas, Eric M. Wahl

CSIS Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Mining Of Correlated Rules In Genome Sequences, L. Lin, L. Wong, Tze-Yun Leong, P. S. Lai

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With the huge amount of data collected by scientists in the molecular genetics community in recent years, there exists a need to develop some novel algorithms based on existing data mining techniques to discover useful information from genome databases. We propose an algorithm that integrates the statistical method, association rule mining, and classification rule mining in the discovery of allelic combinations of genes that are peculiar to certain phenotypes of diseased patients.

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Mae Worthey-Flennoy, Cate Weeks, Gian Galassi

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, November 1, 2002

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Assessment Of Quality Of Life In Obese Individuals, Thomas A. Wadden, Suzanne Phelan

Kinesiology and Public Health

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Impacts Of Local Economic Development Policies On Local Economic Outcomes: What Has Been Done And What Is Doable?, Timothy J. Bartik

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper argues that more rigorous evaluations of local economic development policies are feasible. Programs that aid selected small firms can be rigorously evaluated using an experimental approach, without excluding firms from assistance, by randomly assigning some firms to receive more intense marketing efforts by the program. Programs that aid distressed local areas can be rigorously evaluated by random assignment of the program among eligible distressed areas. If an experiment cannot be done, a variety of statistical approaches can be used to compare firms or areas that use the program with comparison groups of firms or areas that do not …

Vestibular Information Is Required For Dead Reckoning In The Rat, Douglas G. Wallace, Dustin J. Hines, Sergio M. Pellis, Ian Q. Whishaw

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Dead reckoning is an on-line form of spatial navigation used by an animal to identify its present location and return directly to a starting location, even after circuitous outward trips. At present, it is not known which of several self-movement cues (efferent copy from movement commands, proprioceptive information, sensory flow, or vestibular information) are used to compute homeward trajectories. To determine whether vestibular information is important for dead reckoning, the impact of chemical labyrinthectomy was evaluated in a test that demanded on-line computation of a homeward trajectory. Rats were habituated to leave a refuge that was visible from all locations …

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Catherine Beavis, Judith Kalman, Macrina Gómez, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May and November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English. Most of the studies appeared during the six-month period preceding the compilation of the bibliography (January through June 2002 for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; we make no attempt to include all research and research-related articles that appeared in the period under review. Comments on the bibliography and suggestions about items for inclusion may be directed to the bibliography editors. We encourage you to send your suggestions …

Toxoplasma Gondii Induces Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor And Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Secretion By Human Fibroblasts: Implications For Neutrophil Apoptosis, Jacqueline Y. Channon, Kristin A. Miselis, Laurie A. Minns, Chaitali Dutta, Lloyd H. Kasper

Dartmouth Scholarship

Human neutrophils are rescued from apoptosis following incubation with once-washed, fibroblast-derived Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites. Both infected and uninfected neutrophils are rescued, implicating a soluble mediator. In this study we investigated the origin and identity of this soluble mediator. Neutrophils were incubated either with purified tachyzoites or with conditioned medium derived from T. gondii-infected human fibroblasts. Conditioned medium was found to be a potent stimulus that delayed neutrophil apoptosis up to 72 h, whereas purified and extensively washed tachyzoites had no effect. Delayed apoptosis correlated with up-regulation of the neutrophil antiapoptotic protein, Mcl-1, and the neutrophil interleukin 3 receptor alpha subunit …

Special Feature: The Swiss In Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: Novelist Tracks Early Settlers, Sue Duffy, Perry Baker

Swiss American Historical Society Review

While writing three novels from her comfortable brick home in Lexington, Carol Williams lived many lives in the 18th-century backcountry of South Carolina. Writers do that sort of thing. To tell the story of Swiss immigrants in the lands along the Saluda and Congaree rivers, the author became the hunter, the farmer and the soldier desperate to survive in a severe and glorious wilderness.

Product Liabiity And Game Theory: One More Trip To The Choice-Of-Law Well, Michael I. Krauss

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Threats, Free Speech, And The Jurisprudence Of The Federal Criminal Law, G. Robert Blakey, Brian J. Murray

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Fishing For Cancer, David Schoenbrod

Other Publications

After protracted deliberations, the Environmental Protection Agency decided to dredge large quantities of sediment from the upper reach of the Hudson River in order to remove a small portion of the PCB's that came from two General Electric factories. They used these chemicals from the 1940s through the mid-1970s. The corporation will be required to pay for the clean up. The agency's administrators appointed by both Presidents Clinton and Bush as well as leading newspapers explained the decision to the public as required to protect the broad public from a significant risk to human health. This explanation is inconsistent with …

We Can Be Human Only Together, Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Moralized Discourses: South Africa's Intellectual Property Fight For Access To Aids Drugs, Debora Halbert

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Tanf Reauthorization: Is Congress Acting On What We Have Learned?, Peter Edelman

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.