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Health Hazards Of Welding Fumes, Sultan A. Meo, Thamir Al-Khlaiwi Nov 2003

Health Hazards Of Welding Fumes, Sultan A. Meo, Thamir Al-Khlaiwi

Saudi Medical Journal

Even in the twenty-first century, welding is still a common and a highly skilled occupation. The hazardous agents associated with welding processes are acetylene, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, ozone, phosgene, tungsten, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, manganese, nickel, silver, tin, and zinc. All welding processes involve the potential hazards for inhalation exposures that may lead to acute or chronic respiratory diseases. According to literature described earlier it has been suggested that welding fumes cause the lung function impairment, obstructive and restrictive lung disease, cough, dyspnea, rhinitis, asthma, pneumonitis, pneumoconiosis, carcinoma of the lungs. In addition, welding …

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Students Perception Of The Various Teaching Methods Used In The Primary Health Care Course In The Abha , College Of Medicine, Ismail Abdelmoneim Nov 2003

Students Perception Of The Various Teaching Methods Used In The Primary Health Care Course In The Abha , College Of Medicine, Ismail Abdelmoneim

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To describe students perception of the various teaching methods used in the Primary Health Care (PHC) course concerning the scientific material presented, information processing as well as motivation and importance attached by the students to each method. METHODS: A self-administered anonymous questionnaire was filled by the students of the sixth year (n=51) at the end of the course. This was structured into 3 main parts: a general part addressing the objectives of the course, the suitability of the course contents, the references and the importance of the course for the future career. The second part dealt with the suitability …

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Deniz: The Electronic Database For B-Thalassemia Mutations In The Arab World, Ghazi O. Tadmouri, Resul I. Gulen Nov 2003

Deniz: The Electronic Database For B-Thalassemia Mutations In The Arab World, Ghazi O. Tadmouri, Resul I. Gulen

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Data on the distribution of beta-thalassemia mutations in Arab populations are usually destined to disparate locations and much of these become increasingly difficult for an average researcher to locate. That is why we aimed at establishing an electronic database network, called Deniz, for beta-thalassemia allele frequency distributions in the Arab world at http://biobase.fatih.edu.tr. METHODS: The scheme of the database combines the benefits of the relational and hierarchical systems. Detailed statistics of the frequencies of beta-thalassemia mutations are retrieved in tabular forms. Multiple permanent connections allow flexible movement within the database. Queries are processed by the systems language and sent …

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Quick Gene Expression Profiling Of Promyelocytic Cell Line Hl-60, Syed S. Hussain, Hala S. Khalil, Tala M. Bakheet Nov 2003

Quick Gene Expression Profiling Of Promyelocytic Cell Line Hl-60, Syed S. Hussain, Hala S. Khalil, Tala M. Bakheet

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: A number of techniques have been developed to perform gene expression profiling. We report preliminary results from our exploratory study, using sequential analysis of gene expression (SAGE) technique, to profile the undifferentiated and differentiated HL-60 cells in line with our interest to characterize the cancer phenotype. The aim of the study is to evaluate the technique and to understand the molecular bases of these 2 states of cells. METHODS: HL-60 cells were differentiated after treatment with dimethyl sulfoxide. Tag libraries were prepared from the messenger RNAs of the undifferentiated and differentiated cells according to the SAGE protocol. The search …

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Primary Hyperparathyroidism, Hayan A. Bismar, Abdelkarim A. El-Bakry Nov 2003

Primary Hyperparathyroidism, Hayan A. Bismar, Abdelkarim A. El-Bakry

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to present the clinical pattern, surgical indication and management of primary hyperparathyroidism in a teaching hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS: The records of patients who underwent surgical treatment for primary hyperparathyroidism at the King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, KSA from March 1992 to October 2002 were reviewed for epidemiological data, biochemical, radiological investigation, operative procedures, histopathology result, preoperative localization studies included neck ultrasonogram, neck computerized tomography and thallium-technetium subtraction scan. All patients underwent surgery under general anesthesia and procedures were bilateral, unilateral neck exploration, or minimal invasive parathyroidectomy. RESULTS: …

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Metallothionein Expression In Human Prostate Gland, Ziad M. Bataineh, Mohamad K. Nusier Nov 2003

Metallothionein Expression In Human Prostate Gland, Ziad M. Bataineh, Mohamad K. Nusier

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: This study is conducted to detect metallothionein (MT) distribution in the epithelial cells of prostate gland from patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy and adenocarcinoma. METHODS: Prostatic tissues from patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy and adenocarcinoma were processed for immunocytochemistry using indirect peroxidase antiperoxidase procedure and primary antibody against MT. The samples were collected over a period of 2-3 years and were processed at Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan in the year 2002. RESULTS: All prostatic tissues showed a positive reaction for MT. In benign prostatic hypertrophy, MT was mainly localized in the nuclei of epithelial cells …

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Pelvic Hematoma Resulting In Obstructive Uropathy, Ahmed A. Abdulwahab, Salah Hassan, Lulu Al-Nuaim, Rabie Abdel Halim Nov 2003

Pelvic Hematoma Resulting In Obstructive Uropathy, Ahmed A. Abdulwahab, Salah Hassan, Lulu Al-Nuaim, Rabie Abdel Halim

Saudi Medical Journal

The use of anticoagulants, for whatever indication, may carry a high risk of hematoma formation following surgery. Obstructive uropathy is a very rare but possible example of complication secondary to an extensive pelvic hematoma. We describe a case of a patient with rheumatic heart disease and aortic valve replacement, who developed a massive postoperative pelvic hematoma following bilateral tubal ligation, resulting in bilateral ureteric obstructions. This was treated with bilateral ureteric stent through cystoscopy.

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The Pathological Expressions Of Brunners Gland Hyperplasia Into Adenoma And Hamartoma, Fayek A. Al-Hilli, Ashok K. Malik, Sarah M. George Nov 2003

The Pathological Expressions Of Brunners Gland Hyperplasia Into Adenoma And Hamartoma, Fayek A. Al-Hilli, Ashok K. Malik, Sarah M. George

Saudi Medical Journal

The terms Brunners gland adenoma and hamartoma are 2 pathological expressions of hyperplasia of these glands. We report 3 patients and review the recent literature to support our hypothesis of common pathology. Awareness of the existence and character of Brunners gland lesions will increase the possibility of their accurate diagnosis.

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Preference Of Medical Students In Clinical Year, Nadia M. Fida Nov 2003

Preference Of Medical Students In Clinical Year, Nadia M. Fida

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Prevalence Of Antibodies Against Rubella In Pregnant Women In Kerman, Iran, Tahereh A. Ganjooie, Mohammad M. Mohammadi Nov 2003

The Prevalence Of Antibodies Against Rubella In Pregnant Women In Kerman, Iran, Tahereh A. Ganjooie, Mohammad M. Mohammadi

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Remarks On The Presentations By Professors Shapiro And Levin, Mary M. Schroeder Nov 2003

Remarks On The Presentations By Professors Shapiro And Levin, Mary M. Schroeder

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Outsourcing Government Regulation, Sidney A. Shapiro Nov 2003

Outsourcing Government Regulation, Sidney A. Shapiro

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Pervasive Problem Of Court-Sanctioned Secrecy And The Exigency Of National Reform, David S. Sanson Nov 2003

The Pervasive Problem Of Court-Sanctioned Secrecy And The Exigency Of National Reform, David S. Sanson

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Shareholder Value And Auditor Independence, William W. Bratton Nov 2003

Shareholder Value And Auditor Independence, William W. Bratton

Duke Law Journal

This Article questions the practice of framing problems concerning auditors' professional responsibility inside a principal-agent paradigm. If professional independence is to be achieved, auditors cannot be enmeshed in agency relationships with the shareholders of their audit clients. As agents, the auditors by definition become subject to the principal's control and cannot act independently. For the same reason, auditors' duties should be neither articulated in the framework of corporate law fiduciary duty, nor conceived relationally at all. These assertions follow from an inquiry into the operative notion of the shareholder-beneficiary. The Article unpacks the notion of the shareholder and tells a …

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“Vacation” At Sea: Judicial Remedies And Equitable Discretion In Administrative Law, Ronald M. Levin Nov 2003

“Vacation” At Sea: Judicial Remedies And Equitable Discretion In Administrative Law, Ronald M. Levin

Duke Law Journal

Scholars have rarely examined the remedial issues that federal courts may face when they find that an administrative agency has acted unlawfully. This Article presents a broad survey of that topic in the course of exploring a narrower doctrinal issue: the validity of "remand without vacation." That term denotes a practice whereby a court remands an agency action for further work but allows the action to remain in place during the remand proceedings. In recent years many appellate panels have resorted to this practice in order to minimize disruption of an ongoing administrative program or to protect private reliance interests. …

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Sec Enforcement Heuristics: An Empirical Inquiry, James D. Cox, Randall S. Thomas, Dana Kiku Nov 2003

Sec Enforcement Heuristics: An Empirical Inquiry, James D. Cox, Randall S. Thomas, Dana Kiku

Duke Law Journal

This Article examines the overlap between SEC securities enforcement actions and private securities fraud class actions. We begin with an overview of data concerning all SEC enforcement actions from 1997 to 2002. We find that the volume of SEC enforcement proceedings is relatively modest. We next examine the scope of the recently enacted "Fair Fund" provision that authorizes the SEC to designate civil penalties it recovers from defendants to benefit defrauded private investors. We conclude that this provision offers only limited potential relief for private investors. We complete this Part of the Article with an analysis of the serious resource …

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Preventing Defendants From Mooting Class Actions By Picking Off Named Plaintiffs, David Hill Koysza Nov 2003

Preventing Defendants From Mooting Class Actions By Picking Off Named Plaintiffs, David Hill Koysza

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Managed Care’S Crimea: Medical Necessity, Therapeutic Benefit, And The Goals Of Administrative Process In Health Insurance, William M. Sage Nov 2003

Managed Care’S Crimea: Medical Necessity, Therapeutic Benefit, And The Goals Of Administrative Process In Health Insurance, William M. Sage

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Exporting U.S. Corporate Governance Standards Through The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Unilateralism Or Cooperation?, Minodora D. Vancea Nov 2003

Exporting U.S. Corporate Governance Standards Through The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Unilateralism Or Cooperation?, Minodora D. Vancea

Duke Law Journal

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Perspectives On State And Federal Antitrust Enforcement, Stephen Calkins Nov 2003

Perspectives On State And Federal Antitrust Enforcement, Stephen Calkins

Duke Law Journal

This Article reviews federal and (especially) state antitrust enforcement in light of the Microsoft proceeding. Criticism of state enforcement based on that case is misplaced. The Article identifies three consensus comparative advantages of state enforcers: familiarity with local and regional markets, closeness to state and local institutions, and ability and experience in compensating individuals. A review of state enforcement activities finds that the vast majority are consistent with one or more of these advantages. The Article also identifies hallmarks of generally accepted federal civil non-merger enforcement: both antitrust agencies participate actively, using a variety of tools, while showing support for …

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Content-Aware Authentication Of Motion Jpeg2000 Stream In Lossy Networks, Yongdong Wu, Robert H. Deng Nov 2003

Content-Aware Authentication Of Motion Jpeg2000 Stream In Lossy Networks, Yongdong Wu, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Stream authentication schemes (SAS) aim to achieve effective authentication of multicast streams over lossy networks. Almost all the existing SASs is designed for stream data integrity protection only. In this paper, we argue that content integrity protection is more important than data integrity to human users. We present a content-aware SAS in motion JPEG2000 streaming. In our scheme, a chunk of JPEG2000 codestreams is encapsulated into a block of packets using multiple description coding (MDC). Our MDC exploits the inherent structure of motion JPEG2000 codestreams and is used to preserve the semanteme/content of the stream over lossy networks. To achieve …

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Plugged In Praxis: Critical Reflections On U.S. Feminism, Internet Activism, And Solidarity With Women In Afghanistan, Loretta Kensinger Nov 2003

Plugged In Praxis: Critical Reflections On U.S. Feminism, Internet Activism, And Solidarity With Women In Afghanistan, Loretta Kensinger

Journal of International Women's Studies

Cyber-space presents many contradictions to those seeking to use it for activist ends in a transnational world. This paper explores some of these contradictions by examining various uses of the internet in efforts to raise awareness about the situation for women in Afghanistan during the period the Taliban came to power and controlled a majority of the country. I explore differences in approaches, images, and tone within examples of internet activism, emphasizing the Web work of the Feminist Majority Foundation, set in comparison with that of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Due to the prominence of the …

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Housing Delivery In Nthutukoville, South Africa: Successes And Problems For Women, Catherine Ndinda Nov 2003

Housing Delivery In Nthutukoville, South Africa: Successes And Problems For Women, Catherine Ndinda

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper examines the notion of empowerment and what it entails in housing development. Through a critical analysis if the different phases in one particular housing project analyzed by the author, the paper highlights the areas of empowerment and emphasizes that it is a process, which in the case of Nthutukoville in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa began with securing land tenure. Access to resources and acquisition of skills are important. Both external and internal factors may be responsible for women’s inability to take charge of their lives. External factors include political violence, unsupportive local authorities, and a hostile environment as well …

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Technology, Commentary And The Admonitions For Women, Sherin Wing Nov 2003

Technology, Commentary And The Admonitions For Women, Sherin Wing

Journal of International Women's Studies

The following is an analysis of the Admonitions for Women (Nu Jie) by the Later Han Dynasty scholar, Ban Zhao. It examines the historical context for its composition, applying not only one literary template, that of the instructional text, the technological treatise, but also Confucian Commentary. Through this process, the Admonitions emerges as a sophisticated philosophical tract that combines not only several literary traditions, but applies them to a new, unique audience: elite women. In so doing, Ban Zhao challenges assumptions of women’s roles, expectations of women, and enlightens her readers as to what might be really happening …

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Keys To Women’S Liberation In Communist China: An Historical Overview, Jinghao Zhou Nov 2003

Keys To Women’S Liberation In Communist China: An Historical Overview, Jinghao Zhou

Journal of International Women's Studies

Has the Communist Party of China (CPC) fully liberated Chinese women? Is the leadership of the CPC the key to Chinese women’s liberation in the twenty-first century? The CPC has tried to convince the Chinese people and international society to believe that the answer is positive. Having examined the status of Chinese women from an historical perspective, the author has reached the conclusion that women’s problems in present-day China are not only serious but also structural. It is impossible for Chinese women to fully enjoy women’s rights within the current communist system. The future of women’s liberation largely depends on …

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Psychological Factors Influencing Perceived Entrepreneurial Success Among Nigerian Women In Small-Scale Businesses, Benjamin Osayawe Ehigie, Ugonma Eme Umoren Nov 2003

Psychological Factors Influencing Perceived Entrepreneurial Success Among Nigerian Women In Small-Scale Businesses, Benjamin Osayawe Ehigie, Ugonma Eme Umoren

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper considered self-concept, perceived managerial competence, work stress and business commitment as important psychological variables for perceived entrepreneurial success among female entrepreneurs. A study was conducted to examine these factors, using 213 female entrepreneurs. The results showed that although all the predictor variables jointly accounted for perceived entrepreneurial success only business commitment contributed significantly. But in the independent prediction of the variables, only self-concept and business commitment were significant. Additionally, number of children significantly influenced perceived success with females having 5 children and more, and those having 1-2 children reporting better success than those without children or having 3-4 …

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In Search Of Equality: Marriage Related Laws For Muslim Women In Bangladesh, Kamrul Hossain Nov 2003

In Search Of Equality: Marriage Related Laws For Muslim Women In Bangladesh, Kamrul Hossain

Journal of International Women's Studies

The problem of inequality for women in Bangladesh is more social than legal. As regards to the law, except for personal matters, inequalities in the provisions of law are hardly found. Personal matters, however, are regulated by religious laws or customs. In the legal system of Bangladesh though these laws or customs are incorporated separately under the head of Personal Law, these are not, however, as a whole derived from religious laws or customs. Some changes through introducing enactments or promulgating ordinances were made in their application. Still, these have been insufficient to establish equality between women and men. This …

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Women Learners In The Classroom: Exploring The Experience Of Voice, Listening, And Silence, Anita Sinner Nov 2003

Women Learners In The Classroom: Exploring The Experience Of Voice, Listening, And Silence, Anita Sinner

Journal of International Women's Studies

The question of voice is central to a feminist perspective. The dichotomies of voice and silence have long held positions of power and marginalization in the context of the classroom community. In a recent investigation into the learning experiences of three women, Giustina, Tina and Christina, the theme of voice, listening, and silence surfaced as participants reflected on their participation in college and university courses in Canada. These case studies offer a forum to discuss the classroom experiences of women and perhaps shift perspectives on the meaning of voice, listening, and silence in learning.

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Reflections On New Partnerships Between Women And Local Self-Government In India: A Rural Revolution?, Santosh Nandal Nov 2003

Reflections On New Partnerships Between Women And Local Self-Government In India: A Rural Revolution?, Santosh Nandal

Journal of International Women's Studies

This essay reflects on strategies for women’s empowerment in light of the enactment of the 73rd constitutional amendment, Panchayati Raj, in the Indian Constitution, in 1992. It begins with the assumption that women’s empowerment implies progressive elimination of gender disparities at the grassroots level. As such, a perspective on women’s empowerment differs from ideas about women’s development in some important ways. Women’s development is primarily a socio-economic concept while women’s empowerment is essentially a political project. It is argued here that women’s empowerment is indeed a precursor to women’s development. The author offers suggestions for increasing women’s effectiveness in …

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Book Review: What Is Sexual Harassment?: From Capitol Hill To The Sorbonne, Kirsten Dellinger Nov 2003

Book Review: What Is Sexual Harassment?: From Capitol Hill To The Sorbonne, Kirsten Dellinger

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of What is Sexual Harassment?: From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne by Abigail C. Saguy

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