Bisystolic Vertebral Artery: Critical Finding or can be Ignored?

Malassezia—Can it be Ignored?

Genus Malassezia comprises of 14 species of "yeast like fungi," 13 of which are lipophilic and 1 is nonlipophilic. They are known commensals and in predisposed individuals they commonly cause a spectrum of chronic recurrent infections. They rarely also cause serious illnesses like catheter-related blood stream infections, CAPD associated peritonitis etc., Though these fungi have been known to m...

Small proteins can no longer be ignored.

Small proteins, here defined as proteins of 50 amino acids or fewer in the absence of processing, have traditionally been overlooked due to challenges in their annotation and biochemical detection. In the past several years, however, increasing numbers of small proteins have been identified either through the realization that mutations in intergenic regions are actually within unannotated small...

Can Water Polarizability Be Ignored in Hydrogen Bond Kinetics?

The kinetics of forming and breaking water-water hydrogen bonds in neat water, an aqueous solution of ethane, and an aqueous solution of NaCl are studied by molecular dynamics simulations. We compare nonpolarizable and polarizable water models to elucidate the effect of water’s polarizability on hydrogen bonds. We find that polarizability strengthens the hydrogen bonds and increases the hydroge...

Underreported, underacknowledged: child abuse can no longer be ignored.

Child abuse is a serious problem in Hong Kong, and the recent Tin Shui Wai tragedy and assault of a 7-year-old boy have caused considerable public concern. Over the past 5 years, the number of new child abuse cases reported to the Child Protection Registry (CPR) by the Social Welfare Department has been increasing, and has recently risen by more than 50% from 622 cases in 2004 to 406 cases in j...

The analytic hierarchy process: can wash criteria be ignored?