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Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

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When to advise surgery for severe obesity.

A typical severely obese patient will have about 50 kg excess weight to lose, which is equivalent to a store of 350,000 kcal. The optimum rate of weight loss in such a patient is about 1 kg/week, which involves an energy deficit of 1000 kcal/day for about a year. It is difficult to maintain this degree of dietary restriction over such a long period, and procedures such as jaw wiring or stomach ...

Please advise on infusing hydrochloric acid

The approach to and treatment of metabolic alkalosis has made great strides in recent decades and molecular mechanisms have been unraveled. Thus, we were perplexed to receive a request for assistance with hydrochloric acid management. This treatment was not that unusual in the distant past but is nowadays thankfully uncommon. A double-take is an expression of surprise in body language. The cons...

ADVISE: Advanced Digital Video Information Segmentation Engine

This paper describes the design of ADVISE, Advanced Digital Video Information Segmentation Engine, which is a web-based video retrieval system. The system aims at providing a visual summarization of video contents, such that users can efficiently determine whether they are interested in the video before they have downloaded it from the Internet. ADVISE consists of three major modules. The first...