Kitāb al-Sukkardān wa-ʻajāʼib al-buldān / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah al-ʻUmda Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-Ibn Abī Ḥajalah al-Tilimsānī : manuscript, 1567

Title from fol. 1r.

Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-jalīyah fī ʻilm al-kalām / li-jāmiʻihā al-ʻabd al-ḥaqīr Muḥammad Rashīd Qazīhā al-shahīr bi-Ibn Sinān : manuscript, 1896

Paginated 1-32.

Kitāb yusammá bi-al-ʻUqūd al-laʼālī fī al-asānīd al-ʻawālī al-muttaṣilah bi-shaykh shuyūkhinā al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah wa-al-Muḥaqqiq al-mudaqqiq al-fahhāmah al-Sayyid Muḥammad Shākir al-ʻAqqād al-ʻUmarī / taʼlīf tilmīdhihi khātimat al-muḥaqqiqīn al-Sayyid Muḥammad Amīn al-shahīr bi-Ibn ʻĀbidīn : manuscript, 1860

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لمن وصل من انقطع اليه برحمته الاولية ورفع على السوى ... :Incipit

Hādhā kitāb ʻIqd al-jawhar al-thamīn fī arbaʻīn ḥadīthan min aḥādīth Sayyid al-mursalīn jamʻ al-Shaykh al-ʻAllāmah al-Imām muḥaddith Bilād al-Shām Ismāʻīl al-Jarrāḥī al-shahīr bi-al-ʻAjlūnī : manuscript, 1849

Written in one column, 19 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.

The Emperor Shah Jahan with his Son Dara Shikoh", Folio from the Shah Jahan Albu

Nanha; 1 ft. 3 5/16 in.x 10 5/16 in.; album leaf, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper Margins: Gold and opaque watercolor on dyed paper

Dīwān al-shāʻir al-shahīr Imām al-faṣāḥah wa-al-balāghah Abī Tammām ... [microform].

Microfilm.

Ayelet ha-shaḥar : shirim u-melitsot...

"Anhang ayniger Dayṭshe gedikhṭe": p. 111-116.

Beth Avi-gdor : ḥidushim be-shi[shah] se[darim] Bavli Yerushalami ra[bi] M[osheh] b[en] M[aimon] /

Added t.p. in English: Beth abigdor : novellas on different treatises of the Talmuds.

Kitāb al-ʻīshah al-hanīyah fī al-ḥayāh al-nuskīyah [microform] /

Introduction also in French.

Tarjamat ḥayāt al-maghfūr la-hu al-imām al-kabīr wa-al-ʻalam al-shahīr al-faqīh al-akbar fī ʻaṣrih wa-al-imām al-awḥad fī miṣrih al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Rāfiʻī al-Fārūqī al-Ḥanafī Shaykh al-Sādah al-Ḥanafīyah wa-muftī al-diyār al-Miṣrīyah [microform] : mudhayyalah bi-aqwāl al-jarāʾid wa-marāthī al-ʻulamāʾ wa-al-udabāʾ fī al-aqṭār al-ʻArabīyah /

Microfilm.

Kita Kyūshū kōshahōtai haibi yōzu.

Confidential "Gunji gokuhi" printed.

Efficacy and Safety of Using Amplatzer Ductal Occluder for Transcatheter Closure of Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defect in Pediatrics

Background: Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defect (PMVSD) is the most common subtype of ventricular septal defects. Transcatheter closure of PMVSD is a challenging procedure in management of moderate or large defects. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to show that transcatheter closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defect with Amplatzer Ductal Occluder (ADO) is an effective and safe method. Patients and Methods: Between April 2012 and April 2013, 28 patients underwent percutaneous closure of PMVSD using ADO. After obtaining the size of VSD from the ventriculogram a device at least 2 mm larger than the narrowest diameter of VSD at right ventricular side was chosen. The device deployed after confirmation of its good position by echocardiography and left ventriculography. Follow up evaluations were done 1 month, 6 months, 12 months and yearly after discharge with transthoracic echocardiography and 12 lead electrocardiography. Results: The mean age of patients at procedure was 4.7 ± 6.3 (range 2 to 14) years, mean weight 14.7 ± 10.5 (range 10 to 40) kg. The mean defect size of the right ventricular side was 4.5 ± 1.6 mm. The average device size used was 7.3 ± 3.2mm (range 4 to 12 mm). The ADOs were successfully implanted in all patients. The VSD occlusion rate was 65.7% at completion of the procedure, rising up to 79.5% at discharge and 96.4% during follow-up. Small residual shunts were seen at completion of the procedure, but they disappeared during follow-up in all but one patient. The mean follow-up period was 8.3 ± 3.6 months (range 1 to 18 months). Complete atrioventricular block (CAVB), major complication or death was not observed in our study. Conclusions: Transcatheter closure of PMVSD with ADO in children is a safe and effective treatment associated with excellent success and closure rates, but long-term follow-up in a large number of patients would be warranted.

Optimisation of maintenance expenditure for buildings : refurbish or demolish

With an increase in growing number of aging public building infrastructure globally, there is an opportunity for an efficient life care management rather then mere demolition and rebuild. By carefully implementing appropriate structural engineering practices with facility management, the whole of life cycle costs for public building assets can be optimised and public money can be saved and better utilised elsewhere. A need of decision support tool/methodology which can assist asset manager make better decision among demolish, refurbish, do nothing or rebuilt option for any typical building under consideration is growing in order to optimise maintenance funds. The paper is part of research project focusing on development of such methodology known as residual service life prediction. The paper is mainly focusing on following three major aspects of public building infrastructure; first, issues and challenges in optimisation of maintenance funds, second, residual service life prediction methodology and issues and challenges in the development of such methodology. The paper concludes with the authors’ observations and further research potentials

Comparative study of guidelines and practices for building infrastructure asset management

This paper presents a comparative study of primarily Australian (and limited international) practices and guidelines on Buildings Asset Management (BAM). The objective of this study was to identify potential gaps in current practices and potential areas of research for further improvement. The paper starts with an overview of BAM. Later sections cover current BAM practices and guidelines across different states of Australia; give a limited overview of international practices and concludes with the authors’ observations.