Esophageal leiomyomas: Making mole hills out of mole hills?

Mole Hills from Mountains

Creating Mountains out of Mole Hills: Automatic Identification of Hills and Ranges Using Morphometric Analysis

Asiatic Cholera: Mole Hills and Mountains

The disease cholera has persisted in Asia since time immemorial. Almost all the pandemic phases of cholera had its origin from the Indian subcontinent. Historically, waves of cholera have wiped many million lives in this region mainly due to the general insanitary conditions and poor management of the disease. All the three cholera causing vibrios namely classical, El Tor, and the O139 have eme...

Seeing mountains in mole hills: geographical-slant perception.

When observers face directly toward the incline of a hill, their awareness of the slant of the hill is greatly overestimated, but motoric estimates are much more accurate. The present study examined whether similar results would be found when observers were allowed to view the side of a hill. Observers viewed the cross-sections of hills in real (Experiment 1) and virtual (Experiment 2) environm...

Growing out of a caste--reproduction and the making of the queen mole-rat.

Naked mole-rats have a eusocial colony structure consisting of non-reproductive workers and a reproductively active caste where a single, dominant queen and 1-3 males produce all of the offspring. Well-established queens have elongated bodies that characterize their caste. Worker females retain the ability to transform into queens, however the trigger and time course for this physical transform...