This research investigates the semantics and pragmatics of demonstratives in two languages, English and Arabic, within the framework of relevance theory....

Processing theories (Clahsen, 1984; Pienemann, 1997) have argued that the production of subordinate clauses is the last stage in the development of the second language learner. However, these theories did not refer to the relation between proficiency level and the production of complex syntax....

A Health care associated viral infection is defined as a viral infection the onset of which occurs when the patient has been hospitalized longer than the incubation period of the virus. Viruses account for about 5% of all nosocomial infections....

Many factors can affect growth velocity during all phases of childhood growth, such as: race, genetic, familial, nutritional, hormonal, recurrent infections, severe chronic illnesses, socioeconomic factors, emotional factors and certain drugs. Growth failure is the term that describes a growth rate below the appropriate growth velocity for age....

This book describes different laboratory methods for diagnosis of infectious diseases. There specific highlight on molecular techniques. Different molecular biological methods are described. There is also fine description of different laboratory techniques used in diagnosis of infectious diseases....

The search for cancer cure from natural products have been practiced for over a century. For the last 25 years, El-Asmer and co-workers were pursuing the search for potential therapeutic agent or new drug models from snake venoms. This work was presented for partial fulfillment of M.D. in Biochemistry....

Obesity has become an increasingly important medical problem in children and adolescents. Many of the outcomes associated with obesity that were previously thought of as diseases of adults are now affecting children as well....

Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) is an autosomal recessive disorder of methylmalonate and cobalamin (cbl; vitamin B12) metabolism. It results commonly from a defect in the gene encoding methylmalonyl CoA mutase apoenzyme MCM (mut MMA or vitamin B12-unresponsive MMA)....

Hepatitis viruses clinical and laboratory diagnosis overview with simple approach for undergraduate and early post graduate in biomedical science field. It discusses viruses, genotypes, simple laboratory techniques for detection, molecular techniques. Complete discussion of viruses hepatitis A, B, C, D and E was carried out in the text....

The book dails with Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical presentations and laboratory diagnosis. Laboratory diagnosis includes but not limited to microscopic examination, cultural techniques both traditional and updated....

The use of advanced \"omics\" technologies, especially in specific gene expression profiling, has increased gradually in recent years. In basic research, high throughput profiling applications are increasingly used and may now even be considered standard research tools....

With the unprecedented growth-rate at which data is being collected and stored electronically today in almost all fields of human endeavor, the efficient extraction of useful information from the data available is becoming an increasing scientific challenge and a massive economic need....