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Frontmatter -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Oman's Royal Decrees -- Table of Oman's Court Decisions, Legal Opinions, and Ministerial Resolutions -- Table of International Standards and Norms -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 General Introduction -- 2 Introduction to Oman's Basic Statute -- 3 Human Rights Protections and Safeguards under the Omani System -- 4 Omani Nationality and Human Rights -- 5 Democracy, Shura, and Public Participation -- 6 Freedom of Association -- 7 General Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix

Computer Aided Designing Tools of Electron Lenses (CADTEL) is a software packages cares about design, compute and plot simultaneously of the objective and projector properties of electron magnetic lenses. The developments in CADTEL software leads to contain a large fields and methods, adding to previous publish in 2013. The current improvement is inserting of some important parameters which are the resolution and focusing parameters. These parameters are angular semi-angle (α), focusing power (β), resolution limit (δ), image rotation (θ), spherical aberration (Cs), defocus (ΔZ), wave aberration (Χwab), depth of field (Dfld), and depth of focus (Dfoc) at certain magnification conditions. Thus, user can easily compute and plot, according to relations and forms, the effect of these parameters at the lens properties of four magnification conditions; zero, infinite and finite (low and high) magnification modes. This work introduces a new development for CADTEL software which is an interactive visual interface in electromagnetic lenses.Whereas, it reflects a substantial reduction of time and resources desired for training new users and researchers in electron optics field. The results and curves representations appear with visual interfaces which are coded in visual basic programing language. In addition, the computations and figures which were plotted appeared that complete identification between these results which are obtained from CADTEL and that from other software's and direct computations methods.

Through a review of the 2012 documentary film The World before Her directed by Nisha Pahuja, this article provides a critical reflection on how neoliberal governmentality appropriates women's bodies and subjectivities in two women's boot camps in India: the Miss India contest and the Hindu militant Durga Vahini camp. Studies on appropriation of women's bodies in the neoliberal ideology of the market and in varied religious ideologies have generated rich feminist insights into the structures of women's oppression across the world. Feminist academic research has traditionally looked at market- and religion-based oppressions separately. In this critical reflection we articulate how women's bodies get incorporated into the service of varied ideologies, namely neoliberal capitalism and religious fundamentalism, through processes of ritualisation, responsibilisation and subjectivation. Drawing on the shared elements of neoliberal (capitalism) and Hindutwa (Hindu fundamentalism) ideological projects, this article proposes a renewed analysis of the location of women in various ideological projects and the nature of women's negotiation of these power structures or women's agency within these structures.

Through a discourse analysis of four commercially successful Bollywood films between 2012-2013, this paper investigates Bollywood's role in creation of hierarchical identities in the Indian society wherein Muslims occupy the position of the inferior 'other' to the superior Hindu 'self'. Focusing on Muslim heroines, the paper demonstrates that the selected narratives attempt to move away from the older binary identity narratives of Muslim women such as nation vs. religion and hyper-sexualised courtesan vs. subservient veiled women, towards identity narratives borne out of Muslim women's choice of education, career and life partner, political participation, and embodied practices. However, in comparison to signs of change the sites of continuity are strongly embedded in the religious-nationalistic meta-narrative that drives the paradigms of Indian femininity/ womanhood. To conclude, the nature of the recent deployment of Muslim heroines in Bollywood reinforce the hierarchy between the genders (male-female), between the communities (Hindu-Muslim) and between nations (India- Pakistan).

This article is a collaboration between an expert practitioner & researcher of Unani Tibb & a social scientist. A hakim (physician), versed in the thinking & language of biomedicine, describes a traditional system of medicine to nonspecialists. Relevant sociological, historical, & organizational aspects of Unani Tibb are presented. Expanding interest in Asian medical systems has made Ional practitioners' leading seminars & writing books on their medical systems for American & European audiences commonplace. This article describes how one South Asian medical system works. There is an emerging phenomenon of traditional medical systems' opening themselves to seekers of alternative health care; in a recent initiative, the government of India (GOI) encouraged medical tourism for Indian systems of medicine. Future research will need to analyze the outcomes of these types of interactions, the most recent for a medical system with a long history of interaction with many medical & social traditions. 37 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications, Inc.]

BACKGROUND--There have been numerous studies on smoking habits among young adults in developed countries. Similar data from developing countries are scanty. METHODS--A survey of medical students from one of the medical colleges in Pakistan assessed their smoking habits and attitudes towards smoking. In June 1993 a coded survey questionnaire was sent to each medical student at The Aga Khan Medical University in Karachi requesting data on their smoking habits, their attitudes towards smoking in various areas of the hospital, and their views about passive smoking and tobacco publicity. RESULTS--Of 324 medical students, 89% responded of whom 11% were current smokers. The incidence of smoking was greater among male students than females (17% versus 4%). The average age of initiation of smoking was 17 years and the major influence was friends. There was an increased awareness of harmful effects of smoking among medical students. Almost all felt that passive smoking was injurious to health. CONCLUSION--The prevalence of current smokers among Asian medical students was found to be 11%. Females smoked less than their male counterparts. There has been an increased awareness of the hazards of passive smoking among the medical students and most were in favour of legislative actions to discourage tobacco advertising.

The terms of trade between the agricultural and industrial
sectors in developing countries have received considerable attention in
the general literature on economic development. The terms of trade are
important determinants of the distribution of income between the two
sectors, as well as the capacity for saving (particularly in the
manufacturing sector) and incentives to produce and sell (particularly
in the agricultural sector). In Pakistan, the terms of trade of the
agricultural sector are alleged to have been depressed to benefit the
growth of industrial sector. Considerable opposition to increased
taxation of the agricul¬tural sector has been based on the assertion
that that sector is already "taxed" for the benefit of the industrial
sector through the terms of trade. Current official interpretation [11]
of the "saving strategy" that the country followed in the 1950's
indicates that the terms of trade were important in transferring income
from the low-saving sector (agriculture) to the high-saving sector
(manufac¬turing). As yet, however, there had been no empirical study of
the facts of the Pakistan experience.

Checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs), such as nivolumab, have transformed the treatment paradigm for patients with metastatic non‑small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) and metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). The combination of CPIs and radiotherapy (RT) constitutes a multimodal treatment approach that may work synergistically and facilitate augmented systemic responses. The aim of the present retrospective study was to assess the efficacy and safety of continuation of nivolumab treatment with the addition of RT in patients with mNSCLC and mRCC who develop oligometastatic disease progression on single‑agent nivolumab. All patients with mNSCLC and mRCC who received nivolumab at the Department of Oncology, Prince Sultan Military Medical City (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) between November 2016 and April 2018 were identified. The records of patients who developed oligometastatic disease progression during nivolumab treatment and were subsequently treated with RT, with nivolumab continued beyond disease progression, were retrospectively reviewed. Details of RT, clinical outcomes and toxicity data were collected. Of the 96 patients who received nivolumab, 22 received multiple courses of RT. A total of 39 sites were irradiated: Bone (n=15), lung (n=9), brain (n=8), adrenal gland (n=2), renal bed (n=2), skin (n=1), ethmoid sinus (n=1) and scalp (n=1). Partial response and complete response were noted at 25 (64%) and 3 (8%) sites, respectively. Stable disease was noted at 6 sites (15%) and disease progression was noted at 5 sites (13%). The median time on nivolumab from the date of the first fraction of RT was 4.5 months (range, 1.5‑29 months) for patients with mNSCLC and 5 months (range, 1‑38.5 months) for patients with mRCC. No patients developed grade 3‑4 toxicities. Grade 2 pneumonitis was noted in 3 patients receiving lung RT. The addition of RT appeared to initiate a response and prolong the duration of nivolumab treatment. Therefore, the combination of nivolumab and RT was found to be well tolerated, with response rates exceeding ...

INTRODUCTION: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a worldwide public health crisis. During huge surge in COVID-19 cases, most of the patient arrived at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai were severe due to late presentation and also available evidence demonstrating that the delay in treatment is directly associated with increased mortality or poor patient outcome. As an innovative concept of Zero Delay COVID-19 Ward were set up to provide the required critical care for all severe COVID-19 cases. The experience of setting up of such Zero Delay COVID-19 Ward and profile of admitted COVID-19 patients were described in this paper. METHODS: A total of 4515 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted at Zero Delay COVID-19 Ward was analyzed retrospectively from 7th July to 31st December 2020. RESULTS: At the time of admission the frequency of dyspnea were 85.6% among them 99.1% recovered from dyspnea after the oxygen therapy and other management at Zero Delay COVID-19 Ward. Of the 4515 COVID-19 individuals, about 1829 (40.5%) had comorbidity, 227 (5%) had died. Multivariable logistic regression analysis, COVID-19 death was more likely to be associated with comorbidity (OR: 18.687; 95% CI: 11.229-31.1) than other variables. CONCLUSIONS: Comorbidity is an independent high risk factor for mortality of COVID-19 patients. From our observation, it is strongly recommended that effective zero delay covid-19 ward model will help for the prevention of mortality in current/expected waves of COVID-19.