This paper aims to analyse the EMP in two respects. The first is the way European security concerns led to initiatives towards the Mediterranean. I will compare the Euro-Med Partnership with the Global Mediterranean Policy adopted in the early 1970s to show that both exhibit a similar pattern, as captured by the framework suggested by Adler and Crawford. The EMP, however, has shown a recent int...

Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is a rare tumor of the larynx. Whereas more than 80 % of all EMP arise in the upper aerodigestive tract, only about 10 % of them are laryngeal.1 Since the first report on EMP of the larynx in 1913 by Wachter1, less than 100 additional cases have been described in the world literature, the subglottis and epiglottis area being the most commonly involved subsites ...

Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) arises outside the bone marrow and can be associated with multiple myeloma (MM). A 55-year-old gentleman, who presented with dyspnea and expiratory wheeze, was diagnosed and treated for asthma. A subsequent relapse 6 months later prompted an Otolaryngology consult. Preliminary findings showed a benign-looking nodular lesion at the subglottis. Work-up at our ins...

OBJECTIVES An excess of mesothelioma has been observed in iron ore miners in Northeastern Minnesota. Mining and processing of taconite iron ore generate exposures that include elongate mineral particles (EMPs) of amphibole and non-amphibole origin. We conducted a nested case-control study of mesothelioma in a cohort of 68,737 iron ore miners (haematite and taconite ore miners) to evaluate the a...

The ever-increasing popularity of location-based services (LBSs) poses a serious threat to users’ location privacy. Numerous efforts have been made to protect users’ location privacy and also to limit the degradation of service quality resulting from the additional protection layer. Most existing work, however, relies on a trusted anonymization server, which can itself become one source of untr...

BACKGROUND The uterine endometrial polyp (EMP) has a potential risk of developing malignant tumors especially in postmenopausal women. These malignancies include endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma (EIC). PATIENTS AND METHODS Eight patients with EIC in the EMP, who were postmenopausal with ages ranging from 49 to 76 years (av. 62), were cytologically reviewed in comparison with histological...

INTRODUCTION Plasmacytomas are malignant tumors characterized by abnormal monoclonal proliferation of plasma cells. They originate in either bone--solitary osseous plasmacytoma, or in soft tissue--extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP). EMP represents less than 1% of all head and neck malignancies. CASE REPORT We presented a case of EMP of the nasal septum in a 44-year-old male who had progressive...

AIMS Microparticles (MP) are cell-derived fragments known to be increased in the blood of patients with acute coronary syndromes. We aimed to assess, in ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the systemic and local (in the culprit coronary artery) levels of platelet-derived MP (PMP, CD42+CD31+) and endothelial-derived MP (EMP, CD42-CD31+) and their relation to indexes of microvascular obst...

Assume a database surrounded by a large variety of applications depending on it. For example, data entry or query forms are used by hundreds of users updating or querying information and complex workflows that operate in the enterprise frequently pose queries to the database. What happens if we delete a popular attribute from a relation in the database? Typically, all applications accessing thi...

Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is a rare malignant tumor that is characterized by a malignant plasma cell neoplasm. Such neoplasms in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients are extremely rare. To the best of our knowledge, the present study describes the first case of a solitary adrenal EMP in a patient with HIV. A 35-year-old male who had been diagnosed with HIV 3 months previ...