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Complications of Tattoos and Tattoo Removal: Stop and Think Before you ink

Tattooing is a process of implantation of permanent pigment granules in the skin. Tattoos can be decorative, medical or accidental. There has been a exponential increase in decorative tattooing as a body art in teenagers and young adults. Unfortunately there are no legislations to promote safe tattooing, hence complications are quite common. Superficial and deep local infections, systemic infec...

Better think before agreeing twice

Think twice before you tell

Answer to the Rhythm Puzzle At first glance the ECG looks very abnormal. The P-wave morphology is not compatible with sinus rhythm, the conduction intervals are normal, and the QRS complexes are very abnormal in amplitude (micro-voltages in the extremity leads). In lead II there is almost no signal at all. Althoughmicro-voltages in the extremity leads are a common feature in one of the most pre...

Stop the world - I want to think

Reason-based actions plunge the reasoner into temporal considerations from all angles. We see this not only when time enters explicitly into the problem statement, but also in formal robot blocks-world scenarios, in the Yale Shooting Problem and other associated versions of the frame problem (e.g., [Hanks and McDermott, 1986]), in various specialized actions (e.g., hiding, as in [Allen, 1984]),...

Review Study: Intravenous Thrombolysis, Time Window, Dosage, and Off-Label

Despite the development of Intravenous thrombolysis with tissue Plasminogen Activator (IVtPA) guidelines in each affiliated stroke center, protocol violations may be observed in each hospital with IVtPA facilities. An extensive search of scientific electronic databases including PubMed, OVID, Index Medicus, Index Copernicus, Google, ISI, and Scopus was performed with keywords of Thrombolysis, O...