A robot capable of moving on a vertical or overhanging wall has been expected for inspection use of the outer walls of tall buildings, dams, and some other vertical walls. For the purpose, the sucking force produced by the negative pressure in the suckers is available to sustain the robot on the surfaces. To adopt a robot to the various types of irregular surfaces, a walking mechanism is suitab...

In all vertebrate embryos, segmental streams of cranial neural crest cells migrate to form the pharyngeal arches and differentiate into cartilages and bones of the head skeleton. In gnathostomes, the head skeleton has a dorsoventral (DV) polarity from its first appearance: dorsal and ventral cartilages of different shapes (such as the upper jaw and lower jaw in the first arch) are separated by ...

UNLABELLED The white sucker Catostomus commersonii is a freshwater teleost often utilized as a resident sentinel. Here, we sequenced the full genome of a hepatitis B-like virus that infects white suckers from the Great Lakes Region of the United States. Dideoxy sequencing confirmed that the white sucker hepatitis B virus (WSHBV) has a circular genome (3,542 bp) with the prototypical codon organ...

For whatever reason, when the original paper was split into 2 separate papers, Dr. Pelosi's citations went with the second paper. It was my intention that the 2 papers would be published together. However for reasons beyond our control, they were published a few months apart. In the end, our references are correct in the technique paper that Dr. Pelosi refers to. The article is not intended to ...

A simple and safe technique is described for evacuation of pretibial haematoma in elderly patients. A Yankauer sucker attached to the wall suction is used to evacuate the haematoma under local anaesthesia. This technique is used in the accident and emergency department and the ward.