‘Nazareth was a small town too!’

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Nazareth Town, Ethiopia.

OBJECTIVE To determine seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis, assess its zoonotic importance and identify factors associated with seroprevalence. DESIGN Questionnaire survey and serological studies. SUBJECTS Questionnaire survey and 65 serum samples from male and female urban and peri-urban residents aged between 15 days and 65 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Feeding habits, purpose of keeping cat...

In a small Iowa town.

It was the training data pruning too!

We study the current best model (Krishnamurthy et al., 2017) (KDG) for question answering on tabular data evaluated over the WIKITABLEQUESTIONS dataset. Previous ablation studies performed against this model attributed the model’s performance to certain aspects of its architecture. In this paper, we find that the model’s performance also crucially depends on a certain pruning of the data used t...

Gastrografin-based conservative approach to small bowel obstructions: too far from a daily use

As known, small bowel obstruction is one of the most common emergencies in general surgery carrying a not negligible rate of morbidity and financial expenditures as far as high social impact . Peritoneal adhesions are the leading cause of intestinal obstruction up to 74% of cases. In spite of increasing incidence worldwide, current management still presents some “blind corners”, whose aspects s...

Born too small or too soon.

In The Lancet Global Health, Anne Lee and colleagues from the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) make an important contribution to our understanding of the global burden of intrauterine growth restriction. What is new in this work is the evidence that the majority of growth-restricted neonates (assessed with the proxy of small-forgestational-age birth) weigh 2500 g or more at bir...