M. Ali

Publication List Details

Period

1971 - 2009

Number

156

Co-Authors

Microwave screening by conduction currents in thin magnetic films: application in stripline broadband FMR (2009)

Kostylev, M., Kennewell, K. J., Magaraggia, R., Stamps, R. L., Ali, M., Hickey, B. J.

Ferromagnetic resonance in conducting magnetic bilayers was studied using microstrip transducers. It was found that excitation or suppression of standing spin waves could be achieved through enhanced...

and Water Resources (2009)

M. Ali, H. Bauer, R. Braund, S. Y. Evans, L. Emerton, ...

government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership: over 1000 members in all, spread across some 140 countries. As a Union, IUCN seeks to...

METRO ETHERNET QUALITY (2009)

B. Raahemi, G. Chiruvolu, A. Ge, M. Ali

We describe steps required for realizing QoS for the metro Ethernet services, including classification of Customer-VLAN (C-VLAN) traffic, relevant traffic contract specifications per C-VLAN at the...

Prescription Pattern Of Anti-Hypertensive Drugs In A Tertiary Health Institution In Nigeria (2009)

Isezuo, SA, Chika, A, Akuche, J, Ali, M

Objective: This study examined the pattern of physicians' prescription of antihypertensive drugs and its possible effects on blood pressure control as well as physicians' compliance with recommended...

Prescription Pattern of Anti-Hypertensive Drugs in a Tertiary Health Institution in Nigeria (2009)

Etuk, E., Isezuo, S. A., Chika, A., Akuche, J., Ali, M.

Objective: This study examined the pattern of physicians’ prescription of antihypertensive drugs and its possible effects on blood pressure control as well as physicians’ compliance with...

ABSTRACTS (2009)

Abdelwahab, A., Gardner, M., Parkash, R., Basta, M., Sapp, J., Veltmann, C., ...

Introduction: Scar-related ventricular tachycardia (VT) is often unmappable. Data regarding the outcomes of ablation for mappable vs unmappable VT are lacking. Methods: Catheter ablation of...

Educating for the ‘Out-Sourcing & Out-sourced ’ Workplace (2008)

M. Javed Khan, M. Ali

The paper argues the need for exposing engineering students to the salient features of an out-sourcer/out-sourcee interactive environment. A background is provided to highlight the characteristics of...

Non-equilibrium magnetism in dual spin valves (2008)

Aziz, A., Wessely, O. P., Ali, M., Edwards, D. M., Marrows, C. H., Hickey, B. J., ...

The field of spin electronics (spintronics) was initiated by the discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) for which Fert[1] and Grunberg[2] were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics. GMR arises...

New synthetic approaches to prepare degradable polymers (2008)

Ali, M.

This thesis is concerned with the synthesis of acid labile co-polymers. Two polymer systems were examined (1) polyacetals and (2) poly(ortho esters). As for poly(ortho esters), there is a need for...

Spin-transfer switching and low-field precession in exchange-biased spin valve nano-pillars (2008)

Wu, M. C., Aziz, A., Morecroft, D., Blamire, M. G., Hickey, M. C., Ali, M., ...

Using a three-dimensional focused-ion beam lithography process we have fabricated nanopillar devices which show spin transfer torque switching at zero external magnetic fields. Under a small in-plane...

METRO ETHERNET QUALITY OF SERVICES (2008)

B. Raahemi, G. Chiruvolu, A. Ge, M. Ali

A framework for quality of services in Metro Ethernet networks: the essential functional blocks and handling of packets in the core and at the provider and customer edges.

Modifying the surface charge of single track-etched conical nanopores in polyimide (2008)

Ali, M., Schiedt, B., Healy, K., Neumann, R., Ensinger, Andw

Chemical modification of nanopore surfaces is of great interest as it means that the surface composition is no longer fixed by the choice of substrate material, even to the point where large...

Complications of Cerebrovascular Accident in Two Tertiary Care Hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan (2008)

M Ali, Y Khan, H Khan

Background: Stroke is considered as a lethal condition associated with significant mortality and morbidity. Afterstroke, complications are common and cause devastating effects on rehabilitation. The...

The techniques of idealization (2008)

M. Ali

Let R be a commutative ring with identity and M an R-module. The R-module R(M) = R(+)M becomes a commutative ring with identity under the product (r,m)(r ′,m ′ ) = (rr ′,r ′ m + rm ′),...

Accessing Earth System Science Data and Applications Through High-Bandwidth Networks (2007)

Vetter Ali, M. Ali, M. Daily, J. Gabrynowicz, S. Narumalani, K. Nygard, ...

In this paper we discuss gigabit network applications enabled by "Mission to Planet Earth", an international effort to monitor the Earth as a system. We describe the design of a network...

Controlled enhancement or suppression of exchange biasing using impurity $\delta$-layers (2007)

Ali, M., Marrows, C. H., Hickey, B. J.

The effects of inserting impurity $\delta$-layers of various elements into a Co/IrMn exchange biased bilayer, at both the interface, and at given points within the IrMn layer a distance from the...

Pulsive feedback control for stabilizing unstable periodic orbits in a nonlinear oscillator with a non-symmetric potential (2006)

Litak, G., Ali, M., Saha, L. M.

We examine a strange chaotic attractor and its unstable periodic orbits in case of one degree of freedom nonlinear oscillator with non symmetric potential. We propose an efficient method of chaos...

Comparative study of body composition of four fish species in relation to pond depth (2006)

M. Ali, F. Iqbal, A. Salam, F. Sial, M. Athar

Fish specimen of Labeo rohita, Cirrhinus mrigala, Hypophthalmicthys molitrix and Catla catla were sampled from three ponds of different depths (152 cm, 122 cm and 76 cm) to compare the body...

Analysis of Fcγ receptor haplotypes in rheumatoid arthritis: FCGR3A remains a major susceptibility gene at this locus, with an additional contribution from FCGR3B (2005)

Morgan, A.W., Barrett, J.H., Griffiths, B., Subramanian, D., Robinson, J.I., Keyte, V.H., ...

The Fcγ receptors play important roles in the initiation and regulation of many immunological and inflammatory processes, and genetic variants (FCGR) have been associated with numerous autoimmune...

Hybrid Fe3O4/GaAs(100) structure for spintronics (2005)

Lu, Y.X., Claydon, J.S., Ahmad, E., Xu, Y.B., Ali, M., Hickey, B.J., ...

Fe3O4/GaAs hybrid structures have been studied using reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), and...

Hybrid Fe3O4/GaAs(100) structure for spintronics (2005)

Lu, Y.X., Claydon, J.S., Ahmad, E., Xu, Y.B., Ali, M., Hickey, B.J., ...

Fe3O4/GaAs hybrid structures have been studied using reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), and...

Comparative study of body composition of different fish species from brackish water pond (2005)

M. Ali, F. Iqbal, A. Salam, S. Iram, M. Athar

Seven species of fish (Catla catla, Cirrhinus mrigala, Cyprinus carpio, Hypophthalmicthys molitrix, Labeo rohita, Mori-Rahu Hybrid and Thalla-Rahu Hybrid) were collected from a brackish water pond...

Efficacy of Ivermectin Against Gastroinstestinal Nematods in Calves (2005)

A. K. Sarkar, M.Ali, A. Rahman

A study was under taken on 30 young cattle (age 6-9) months, body weight 60-120 kg (of both sexes) of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, affected naturally with various gastrointestinal...

Efficacy of Ivermectin against GastroIntestinal Nematodes in Calves (2005)

M. Ali, A. Rahman

A study was undertaken on 30 young cattle (age 6-9) months, body weight 60-120 kg (of both sexes) of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh affected naturally with various gastrointesitinal...

Efficacy of Ivermectin Against Gastroinstestinal Nematods in Calves (2005)

A. K. Sarkar, M.Ali, A. Rahman

A study was under taken on 30 young cattle (age 6-9) months, body weight 60-120 kg (of both sexes) of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, affected naturally with various gastrointestinal...

Efficacy of Ivermectin against GastroIntestinal Nematodes in Calves (2005)

M. Ali, A. Rahman

A study was undertaken on 30 young cattle (age 6-9) months, body weight 60-120 kg (of both sexes) of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh affected naturally with various gastrointesitinal...

Pupil-led sex education in England (RIPPLE study): cluster-randomised intervention trial (2004)

Stephenson, J.M., Strange, V., Forrest, S., Oakley, A., Copas, A., Allen, E., ...

Background: Improvement of sex education in schools is a key part of the UK government's strategy to reduce teenage pregnancy in England. We examined the effectiveness of one form of peer-led sex...

Pupil-led sex education in England (RIPPLE study) : cluster-randomised intervention trial. (2004)

Stephenson, J., Strange, V., Forrest, S., Oakley, A., Copas, A., Allen, E., ...

Background Improvement of sex education in schools is a key part of the UK government's strategy to reduce teenage pregnancy in England. We examined the effectiveness of one form of peer-led sex...

Genetic Divergence Analysis in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) (2004)

M.M. Rohman, M.A. Hakim, N.A. Sultana, M.E. Kabir, M. Hasanuzzan, M. Ali

Genetic divergence of 35 sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) genotypes was estimated using D2 and principal component analysis for nine characters. The genotypes under study were grouped into 4 clusters....

Comparison Between Seed Planting Methods (2004)

M.A. Khan, S.M. Alam, S.A. Ala, M.H. Naqvi, S. Mumtaz, ...

An experiment was conducted in Plant Physiology Division at NIA, Tandojam, to find out a suitable growing technique for germination and seedling growth of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Techniques...

Compensatory growth in fishes: a response to growth depression (2003)

Ali, M., Nicieza, A., Wootton, Robert J.

Compensatory growth (CG) is a phase of accelerated growth when favourable conditions are restored after a period of growth depression. CG reduces variance in size by causing growth trajectories to...

Evaluation of Physical Characteristics and Phosphorus Contents to Assess the Quality of Commercial Gear Oils (2003)

M.A. Malana, M. Ahmad, T.M. Ansari, M. Ali

In the present work, quality of twelve commercial gear oil brands has been assessed by evaluating the physical characteristics and phosphorus contents. Physical parameters (Flash point, Pour Point,...

On the Convergence of the Link-State Advertisement Protocol in Survivable WDM Mesh Networks (2003)

S. Darisala, A. Fumagalli, P. Kothandaraman, M. Tacca, L. Valcarenghi, M. Ali, ...

Survivability in the dynamic IP over WDM network may be guaranteed by the Shared Path Protection (SPP) scheme implemented at the optical layer. The advantages of this scheme are fast recovery...

Identifying environmental risk factors for endemic cholera: a raster GIS approach (2002)

Ali, M, Emch, M, Donnay, Jean-Paul, Yunus, M, Sack, RB

The bacteria that cause cholera are known to be normal inhabitants of surface water, however, the environmental risk factors for different biotypes of cholera are not well understood. This study...

The spatial epidemiology of cholera in an endemic area of Bangladesh (2002)

Ali, M, Emch, M, Donnay, Jean-Paul, Yunus, M, Sack, RB

This paper defines high-risk areas of cholera based on environmental risk factors of the disease in an endemic area of Bangladesh. The risk factors include proximity to surface water, high population...

Spatial filtering using a raster geographic information system: methods for scaling health and environmental data (2002)

Ali, M, Emch, M, Donnay, Jean-Paul

Despite the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in academic research, it is still uncommon for public health officials to use such tools for addressing health and environmental issues....

Biophysical studies of a transmembrane peptide derived from the T cell antigen receptor (2002)

Ali, M, Huynh, N T, Manolios, N, Separovic, F

Core peptide (CP) is a unique peptide derived from the transmembrane sequence of T cell antigen receptor (TCR)-alpha chain and is capable of inhibiting the immune response both invitro and in animal...

Biophysical studies of a transmembrane peptide derived from the T cell antigen receptor (2002)

Ali, M, Huynh, N T, Manolios, N, Separovic, F

Core peptide (CP) is a unique peptide derived from the transmembrane sequence of T cell antigen receptor (TCR)-alpha chain and is capable of inhibiting the immune response both invitro and in animal...

Does timing of daily feeding affect growth rates of juvenile three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus L? (2001)

Ali, M., Wootton, Robert J.

To assess the consequences of unpredictability in the availability of food, this study measured the effect of timing of the daily feeding on food consumption and growth rates of juvenile Gasterosteus...

Dynamics of appetite in three fish species (Gasterosteus aculeatus, Phoxinus and Carassius auratus gibelio) after feed deprivation (2001)

Ali, M., Cui, Y. B., Zhu, X. M., Wootton, Robert J.

The temporal dynamics of appetite (weight of food consumed per day) were analysed for fish fed to satiation after a 1 or 2-week period of feed deprivation. Three species were compared: two omnivores...

Capacity for growth compensation in juvenile three-spined sticklebacks experiencing cycles of food deprivation (2001)

Ali, M., Wootton, Robert J.

The capacity of three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus (initial mean mass 0.280 g) to compensate for recurrent periods of food deprivation of 2, 4 or 6 days followed by 2 days of ad libitum...

Comparison of compensatory growth responses of juvenile three-spined stickleback and minnow following similar food deprivation protocols (2001)

Zhu, X., Cui, Y., Ali, M., Wootton, Robert J.

The compensatory growth responses of individual juveniles of two co- existing species were compared after identical periods of starvation to determine inter-specific similarities and differences. The...

Effect of Different Levels of Zinc and Phosphorus on Seedling Growth, Chlorophyll and Peroxidase Contents of Rice (2001)

S.M. Alam, M. A. Khan, M. Ali, R. Ansari

Water culture experiment was conducted to observe the effects of different levels of Zn and P alone and in combination on the growth ,chlorophyll and peroxidase contents of rice (cv. Shadab).The...

Factors influencing birth weight in a rural community of Bangladesh (1998)

Hasan, K.Z., Sack, R.B., Siddique, A.K., Roy, E., Rahman, M.N., Ali, M.

Objective: Describe the characteristics of birth weights of children in rural Bangladesh. Methods: A cohort of newborn children with respiratory infections and diarrhoea was studied. A census was...

Standardized management reduces mortality among severely malnourished children with diarrhoea (1998)

Ahmed, T., Ali, M., Ullah, M., Choudhury, I. A., Begum, B., Haque, M.E., ...

Objective: Reduce mortality and cost of treating severely malnourished children with diarrhoea by following a standardized management protocol. Methodology: The mortality rates and the cost of...

Absorption of macronutrients and nitrogen balance in children with dysentery fed an amylase-treated energy-dense porridge (1997)

Rahman, M.M., Mahalanabis, D., Ali, M., Mazumder, R.N., Wahed, M.A., Fuchs, G.J.

The aim of this study was to determine the absorption of macronutrients and energy from an energy-dense diet liquefied with amylase from germinated wheat (ARF) in children suffering from acute...

Flood control embankments contribute to the improvement of the health status of children in rural Bangladesh (1997)

Myaux, J.A., Ali, M., Chakraborty, J., De Francisco, A.

Every year, Bangladesh experiences major floods that inundate about one-third of the country. Therefore, flood control projects that comprise earthen dikes and irrigation/drainage systems are built...

Spatial distribution of watery diarrhoea in children: identification of "risk areas" in a rural community in Bangladesh (1997)

Myaux, J., Ali, M., Felsenstein, A., Chakraborty, J., De Francisco, A.

To assess the geographic variation of acute watery diarrhoea in children 0 to 5 years old in rural Bangladesh, all cases of "cholera-like" diarrhoea were plotted on the map. A clustering pattern was...

Sustainability of a water, sanitation and hygiene education project in rural Bangladesh: a 5-year follow-up (1996)

Hoque, B.A., Juncker, T., Sack, R.B., Ali, M., Aziz, K.M.A.

An integrated water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) education intervention project was run by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, over the period 1983-87. In...

Role of amylase-treated, energy-dense liquid diet in the nutritional management of acute shigellosis in children: a controlled clinical trial (1995)

Rahman, M.M., Mazumder, R.N., Ali, M., Mahalanabis, Dilip

To evaluate if an energy-dense porridge liquefied by amylase-rich flour (ARF) from germinated wheat increased the calorie intake in children with acute shigellosis, we studied 66 children, aged 6-35...

Accessing Earth System Science Data and Applications Through High-Bandwidth Networks (1995)

Vetter, R., Ali, M., Daily, M., Gabrynowic, J., Narumalani, Sunil G., Nygard, K., ...

In this paper, we discuss gigabit network applications enabled by "Mission to Planet Earth," an international effort to monitor the Earth as a system. We describe the design of a network...

Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems - invited and additional papers (1995)

Forsyth, G.F., Ali, M.

The papers in this document and in the Proceedings present a spectrum of new ideas, issues and practicum, addressing the needs of real-life applied systems.

Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems - invited and additional papers (1995)

Forsyth, G.F., Ali, M.

The papers in this document and in the Proceedings present a spectrum of new ideas, issues and practicum, addressing the needs of real-life applied systems.

Accessing Earth System Science Data and Applications Through High-Bandwidth Networks (1995)

R. Vetter, M. Ali, M. Daily, J. Gabrynowicz, S. Narumalani, K. Nygard, ...

In this paper we discuss gigabit network applications enabled by "Mission to Planet Earth", an international effort to monitor the Earth as a system. We describe the design of a network...

Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems - invited and additional papers (1995)

Forsyth, G.F., Ali, M.

The papers in this document and in the Proceedings present a spectrum of new ideas, issues and practicum, addressing the needs of real-life applied systems.

Maternal nutritional status as a determinant of child health (1993)

Rahman, M., Roy, S.K., Ali, M., Mitra, A.K., Alam, A.N., Akbar, M.S.

To determine the relationship between the nutritional status of the mother and that of the child, 339 children aged 3-36 months and their mothers in two urban hospitals and a community out-patient...

DNA diagnosis of fatal fructose intolerance from archival tissue (1993)

ALI, M., ROSIEN, U., COX, T.M.

Hereditary fructose intolerance is a recessively-transmitted disorder of metabolism caused by deficiency of aldolase B in the liver, intestine and kidney, that responds favourably to an exclusion...

Maternal Nutritional Status as a Determinant of Child Health (1993)

Rahman, M., Roy, S. K., Ali, M., Mitra, A. K., Alam, A. N., Akbar, M. S.

To determine the relationship between the nutritional status of the mother and that of the child, 339 children aged 3–36 months and their mothers in two urban hospitals and a community out-patient...

Linear analysis of a finite length plasma-filled backward wave oscillator (1992)

Ali, M., Orgura, K., Minami, K., Destler, William, Granatstein, V.

Absolute instability in a plasma-filled backward wave oscillator with sinusoidally corrugated slow wave structure driven by an intense relativistic electron beam has been analyzed numerically. The...

Analysis, Generation And Compression of Pavement Distress Images Using Fractals (1992)

M. Ali, Maaruf Ali, T.G. Clarkson, M.A. Gennert, Trevor G. Clarkson

The vast amount of data generated by automated surface distress evaluation equipment far exceeds the storage capabilities of current digital data storage systems. A study using fractals is being...

Impact of B subunit killed whole-cell and killed whole-cell-only oral vaccines against cholera upon treated diarrhoeal illness and mortality in an area endemic for cholera (1988)

Clemens, John D., Sack, David A., Harris, Jeffery R., Chakraborty, J., Khan, M.R., Stanton, Bonita F., ...

The impact of B subunit killed whole-cell (BS-WC) and killed whole-cell-only (WC) oral cholera vaccines was assessed in a randomised double-blind trial in rural Bangladesh. 62,285 children aged 2-15...

Modulation of mouse skin tumor promotion by dietary 13-cis-retinoic acid and {alpha}-difluoromethylornithine (1986)

Verma, Ajit K., Duvick, L., Ali, M.

The effects of dietary supplementation of 13-cis-retinoic acid (13-cis-RA) and α-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) in the drinking water on 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-promoted skin...

Automatic Detection and Classification of Infestations of Crop Insect Pests and Diseases from Infrared Aerial Color Photographs (1976)

Ali, M., Aggarwal, J. K.

This paper describes a system designed to analyze aerial color infrared photographs of citrus orchards. The input to the system is a 35 mm transparency of the infrared aerial photograph mounted in a...

Relative recovery of anaerobes on different isolation media.

Sondag, J E, Ali, M, Murray, P R

The recovery of clinical anaerobic isolates on selective and nonselective agar media, as well as the time required to detect the isolates, was examined. Of a total of 235 isolates, 77, 46, and 40%...

Rapid presumptive identification of anaerobes in blood cultures by gas-liquid chromatography.

Sondag, J E, Ali, M, Murray, P R

Production of volatile and nonvolatile metabolic acids in blood culture broths by aerobic, facultative anaerobic, and obligate anaerobic bacteria was analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography. Anaerobic...

Infant rat model of attenuation for recombinant influenza viruses prepared from cold-adapted attenuated A/Ann Arbor/6/60.

Ali, M, Maassab, H F, Jennings, R, Potter, C W

The pathogenicity of 6 wild-type influenza A viruses and 21 recombinant strains prepared from wild-type viruses and cold-adapted A/Ann Arbor/6/60 virus for infant rats was determined. Thus, the...

Synthesis of Avian Oncornavirus DNA in Infected Chicken Cells

Ali, M., Baluda, M. A.

The intracellular synthesis and integration of viral DNA (vDNA) into the host cell genome was studied in cultured chicken embryo fibroblasts infected with avian sarcoma or leukemia viruses. The newly...

Iron state in alpha and beta thalassaemia trait.

White, J M, Richards, R, Jelenski, G, Byrne, M, Ali, M

The iron state was examined in two groups of pregnant women who were carriers of alpha and beta thalassaemia genes. In both groups the haematological expression of the disease--namely, haemoglobin...

Antigen capture ELISA for the heat shock protein (hsp60) of Chlamydia trachomatis.

Horner, P J, Ali, M, Parker, D, Weber, J N, Taylor-Robinson, D, McClure, M O

AIMS: To develop an indirect ELISA using the heat shock protein (hsp60) of Chlamydia trachomatis as antigen. METHODS: The hsp60 gene was amplified by PCR, expressed in the vector pDEV-107 and...

Uncoupling between the insulin-receptor cycle and the cellular degradation of the hormone in cultured foetal hepatocytes. Effect of drugs and temperature that inhibit insulin degradation.

Soubigou, P, Ali, M, Plas, C

Sequential changes in the numbers of cell-surface receptors induced by a transitory exposure to insulin in cultured 18-day foetal-rat hepatocytes were investigated in the presence of drugs and at a...

Isolation, characterization and synthesis of alpha-foetoprotein from neonatal-rat skin.

Mujoo, K, Ali, M, Sahib, M K

Monospecific anti-[rat alpha-foetoprotein(alpha-FP)] immunoglobulin G was coupled to CNBr-activated Sepharose-4B (4.5 mg/ml packed volume of gel) to yield an adsorbent. The immunoaffinity column was...

Identification and origin of oestradiol-binding protein in immature rat skin. Demonstration of oestrophilic alpha-foetoprotein synthesis and secretion by developing rat skin explants in culture.

Ali, M, Mujoo, K, Sahib, M K

Oestrophilic alpha-foetoprotein (alpha FP) is found in high concentrations in developing rat skin cytosol. Elevated levels of alpha FP observed in foetal-rat skin decreased during development, and...

Alteration of substrate specificity by a naturally-occurring aldolase B mutation (Ala337-->Val) in fructose intolerance.

Rellos, P, Ali, M, Vidailhet, M, Sygusch, J, Cox, T M

A molecular analysis of human aldolase B genes in two newborn infants and a 4-year-old child with hereditary fructose intolerance, the offspring of a consanguineous union, has identified the novel...

Application of an Improved Method for the Recombinant K39 Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay To Detect Visceral Leishmaniasis Disease and Infection in Bangladesh

Kurkjian, K. M., Vaz, L. E., Haque, R., Cetre-Sossah, C., Akhter, S., Roy, S., ...

Several serology-based immunoassays are used to diagnose visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a chronic protozoan parasitic disease caused by the Leishmania donovani complex. These tests are primarily...

Iron deficiency anemia in the elderly: the diagnostic process.

Patterson, C, Guyatt, G H, Singer, J, Ali, M, Turpie, I

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of physician probability estimates calculated on the basis of findings from history-taking and physical examination in the diagnosis of iron deficiency...

Overexpression of transcripts containing LINE-1 in the synovia of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Ali, M, Veale, D, Reece, R, Quinn, M, Henshaw, K, Zanders, E, ...

Methods: Synovial biopsy specimens were obtained by needle arthroscopy from the knees of 10 patients with either RA or ReA. RNA was isolated from the biopsy specimens and cDNA synthesised for...

Retinal complications of optic disc drusen.

Rubinstein, K, Ali, M

Following reports by Sanders et al. and Wise et al. of optic disc drusen associated with retinal bleeding, an additional 19 cases were studied and followed up for 1 to 10 years (average 5 years)....

Null alleles of the aldolase B gene in patients with hereditary fructose intolerance.

Ali, M, Tunçman, G, Cross, N C, Vidailhet, M, Bökesoy, I, Gitzelmann, R, ...

We report three new mutations in the gene for aldolase B that are associated with hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI). Two nonsense mutations create opal termination codons: R3op (C-->T,...

Neonatal screening for hereditary fructose intolerance: frequency of the most common mutant aldolase B allele (A149P) in the British population.

James, C L, Rellos, P, Ali, M, Heeley, A F, Cox, T M

Hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI) causes severe and sometimes fatal metabolic disturbances in infants and children but responds to dietary treatment. To determine the practicability of screening...

Hereditary fructose intolerance.

Ali, M, Rellos, P, Cox, T M

Hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI, OMIM 22960), caused by catalytic deficiency of aldolase B (fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase, EC 4.1.2.13), is a recessively inherited condition in which...

Glucocorticoids decrease c-fos expression in human nasal polyps in vivo

Baraniuk, J., Wong, G., Ali, M., Sabol, M., Troost, T.

BACKGROUND—Activated c-fos binds to jun proteins to form the activation protein 1 (AP-1) transcription factor that regulates cytokine and other proinflammatory genes. c-Fos may play a key role in...

The burden of cholera in the slums of Kolkata, India: data from a prospective, community based study

Sur, D, Deen, J, Manna, B, Niyogi, S, Deb, A, Kanungo, S, ...

Aims: To conduct a prospective, community based study in an impoverished urban site in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in order to measure the burden of cholera, describe its epidemiology, and search for...

IMPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY AND CROP ROTATION FOR NITROGEN MANAGEMENT IN SUGAR BEET PRODUCTION

Ali, M., McBride, W., Daberkow, S.

Adoption of new technologies, such as remote sensing, is slowed by such factors as high monetary and/or human capital costs and uncertainty about their value. This analysis explores the impact on...

Tradable Permits Under Threat to Manage Nonpoint Source Pollution

Ali, M., Le Grusse, P., Rio, P.

In this article we treat the problemof nonpoint source pollution as a problem of moral hazard in group. To solve this kind of problemwe consider a group performance based tax coupled to tradable...

Sustainability of a water, sanitation and hygiene education project in rural Bangladesh: a 5-year follow-up.

Hoque, B. A., Juncker, T., Sack, R. B., Ali, M., Aziz, K. M.

An integrated water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) education intervention project was run by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, over the period 1983-87. In...

Flood control embankments contribute to the improvement of the health status of children in rural Bangladesh.

Myaux, J. A., Ali, M., Chakraborty, J., De Francisco, A.

Every year, Bangladesh experiences major floods that inundate about one-third of the country. Therefore, flood control projects that comprise earthen dikes and irrigation/drainage systems are built...

Genetic aspects of restless legs syndrome

Dhawan, V, Ali, M, Chaudhuri, K R

Restless legs syndrome (RLS), also known as Ekbom syndrome, is a common movement disorder with sensorimotor symptoms occurring during sleep and quiet wakefulness. The underlying cause for RLS is...