Background: The gold standard treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is radical cystectomy (RC) for eligible patients. Recently, trimodal therapy has been recommended as an alternative bladder preserving approach. ...
The aim of this thesis is to provide insight onto the personal experiences that Lebanese civilians had with music during the 1975 Civil War. The research focuses on how individual Lebanese people have used music to cope ...
Following several decades of tactical experimentation, by the end of the nineteenth century Protestant missions in the Middle East were well-established and coming into increasing contact with the Muslim community. The ...
This thesis is about some teeming social actors that operate and co-exist in a society that has contradictory features: conflictual, sectarian, hierarchical, pluralistic, and quasi-cosmopolitan. These actors lie within ...
Bacteriophage λ regulates the switch from immediate-early to delayed-early gene expression by the binding of N protein to nut (N-utilization) sites in two viral transcripts. The arginine-rich domain of N protein recognizes ...
The Rev protein of the human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 (HIV-1) binds stem-loop region IIB of its target RNA, the Rev Response Element (RRE IIB), via its arginine-rich motif (ARM). This ARM-RNA interaction is an essential ...
Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is an immunodeficiency disorder characterized by
recurrent bacterial and fungal infections. The cause of CGD is defective neutrophil
function resulting from mutations in one of the ...
Collective investment schemes have always been a resort for non-sophisticated in vestors. Actively-managed mutual funds are among the most popular Collective inv estment schemes. Those investments combine the investor's ...
Current online help support systems for web applications suffer important limita tions. These limitations can be related to either the lack of synchronized conte xtual help which usually renders a system ineffective, or ...
The research investigates the transformation of old Damascene houses into restau rants and boutique-hotels, specifically in the neighborhoods of Qemareye and Bab Touma in the Old City of Damascus. These transformations ...
At a distance of more than 13000 km from Jerusalem, Chile is host to the largest Palestinian community outside the Arab world. After placing the genesis of this community within the framework of the global history of ...