Sir, Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) is one of the common entities tackled by a general surgeon. Although it has an array of clinical presentations, we came across an unusual intraoperative finding that surprised us on the operating table during an emergency abdominal exploration. The purpose of this paper is to make the surgical fraternity aware of such an atypical, however, clinically relevant fin...

The OUSL Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). It first scholarly in focusing on research field and Distance Learning (ODL), being since 1997. provides platform to publish pedagogy relating teaching learning at level, particular (ODL). also forum for review articles related areas Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering...

Disordered eating behavior (DEB) is correlated with development of eating disorders and other psychological illnesses. Adolescent females with Type-1diabetes (T1DM) are at higher risk for developing DEB and have a two-fold higher incidence of DEB than their non-diabetic counterparts. Individuals with T1DM have the unique ability to omit insulin as a weight reduction strategy. DEB in T1DM adoles...

A previous paper (Eaton, 1934) described variants of the pneumococcus characterized by a tendency to undergo rapid spontaneous lysis under certain cultural conditions at 370C. These variants were produced by daughter-colony dissociation of smooth pneumococcus strains on blood agar at 250C. A further investigation of this method of dissociation revealed that a second and independent type of vari...

Neuroblast divisions in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans often give rise to a larger neuron and a smaller cell that dies. We have previously identified genes that, when mutated, result in neuroblast divisions that generate daughter cells that are more equivalent in size. This effect correlates with the survival of daughter cells that would normally die. We now describe a role for the DEP dom...

This paper describes a concept of concentration and binary separation of particles and its experimental confirmations for digital microfluidics where droplets are driven by the mechanism of electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD). As a fundamental separation unit, a binary separation scheme is developed, separating two different types of particles in one droplet into two droplets, one type each. Th...

Asymmetric division of progenitor/stem cells generates both self-renewing and differentiating progeny and is fundamental to development and regeneration. How this process is regulated in the vertebrate brain remains incompletely understood. Here, we use time-lapse imaging to track radial glia progenitor behavior in the developing zebrafish brain. We find that asymmetric division invariably gene...