AIM The authors evaluate the results of mini-invasive therapy in patients diagnosed with upside-down stomach. MATERIAL AND METHODS From 1998 to 2008, a total of 27 patients diagnosed with upside-down stomach were surgically treated at the 1st Department of Surgery, University Hospital Olomouc. Before the operation, patients were examined endoscopically and a barium swallow was performed. In a...

Upside-down stomach is a relatively rare type of a large paraesophageal hernia characterized by the migration of the stomach into the posterior mediastinum. Upside-down stomach is prone to severe complications and therefore surgery is recommended even in asymptomatic patients. A 62-year-old male presented with frequent abdominal pain with nausea and vomiting that persisted for one year. The pat...

For a brace to be effective, it must be comfortable so that the patient will wear it. The lordotic low back can be changed to an active flat back by training (Fig. 1, left & center). To acquire an active flat back, the role of the abdominals and their deep crease at navel level is important. The lumbar spine from the lum­ bosacral area upward has a considerable arc range compared with that of t...

Thalamic neurons that signal an animal's direction of heading are crucial for spatial navigation. Both directional coding and flexible use of spatial memory are upended, however, when a rat has to find its way while upside down.

A locust placed upside down on a flat surface uses a predictable sequence of leg movements to right itself. To analyse this behaviour, we made use of a naturally occurring state of quiescence (thanatosis) to position locusts in a standardised upside-down position from which they spontaneously right themselves. Locusts grasped around the pronotum enter a state of thanatosis during which the limb...

ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to find out the realization flouting maxim humor uttered by characters in movie Upside. conducted descriptive qualitative design. script and subtitle Upside has become source data which represent maxims Cooperative Principle Grice. Then were analyzed read write technique or attentive observation since form utterances. also choosing funny utterances only foc...

Since we first conceived of this Special Issue, “Levering Sustainable Food Systems to Address Climate Change—Possible Transformations”, COVID-19 has turned the world upside down [...]

A Schroedinger picture analysis of time dependent quantum oscillators, in a manner of Guth and Pi, clearly identifies two physical mechanisms for possible decoherence of vacuum fluctuations in early universe: turning of quantum oscillators upside-down, and rapid squeezing of upside-right oscillators so that certain squeezing factor diverges. In inflationary cosmology the former mechanism explai...