GEOLOGY: Not Your Typical Gallstone

Not Your Typical Angioma

Not your typical pneumonia!

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 52-year-old gentleman presented to accident and emergency with a 1-week history of sore throat. He had felt generally unwell and feverish the day prior to admission with a cough productive of yellow sputum. On examination he looked lethargic, had a temperature of 38°C and was tachycardic. Medical history included coarctation of the aorta repair in adolescence which subseque...

Data Quality Not Your Typical Database Problem

Textbook database examples are often wrong and simplistic. Unfortunately Data is never born clean or pure. Errors, missing values, repeated entries, inconsistent instances and unsatisfied business rules are the norm rather than the exception. Data cleaning (also known as data cleansing, record linkage and many other terminologies) is growing as a major application requirement and an interdiscip...

Typical Ambiguity: Trying to Have Your Cake

Ambiguity is a property of syntactic expressions which is ubiquitous in all informal languages–natural, scientific and mathematical; the efficient use of language depends to an exceptional extent on this feature. Disambiguation is the process of separating out the possible meanings of ambiguous expressions. Ambiguity is typical if the process of disambiguation can be carried out in some systema...

Not your "typical island woman": anorexia nervosa is reported only in subcultures in Curaçao.

Anorexia nervosa (AN), once thought to be a problem of wealthier, Western countries has now been documented in survey studies and case reports across geographic and economic groups; however, few epidemiological studies including interview have been done on these populations. We report on a comprehensive study on Curaçao, a Caribbean island in economic transition, where the majority of the popul...