The aim of this paper is to describe a novel and completely automated technique for carotid artery (CA) recognition, far (distal) wall segmentation, and intimamedia thickness (IMT) measurement, which is a strong clinical tool for risk assessment for cardiovascular diseases. The architecture of completely automated multiresolution edge snapper (CAMES) consists of the following two stages: 1) aut...

Macrobrachium abrahami, new species is described from Vamanapuram River, Kerala, South India. DNA bar-coding using Cytochrome B gene sequences has elucidated the taxonomic status of the new species and the ML tree reveals that M. abrahami sp. nov., is phylogenetically close to M. prabhakarani, but morphologically more similar to M. scabriculum. However, the species shares certain morphological ...

Restenosis following bare metal coronary stenting is common. The location and characteristics of restenotic lesions in patients who have undergone coronary stent implantation is not well described. The purpose of this study was to determine the location, type and temporal distribution of stent-related restenosis. We reviewed the clinical and angiographic characteristics of 203 consecutive patie...

The expansion of oil palm monocultures into globally important Southeast Asian tropical peatlands has caused severe environmental damage. Despite much the current focus impacts being directed at industrial scale plantations, over half land-use cover in Asia is from smallholder plantations. We differentiated a first generation monoculture 8 different sampling zones, and further divided zones roo...

Oxychilus (Drouetia) viridescens n.sp. is described from Santa Maria Island, Açores. It is conchologically similar to the sympatric Oxychilus (Drouetia) brincki Riedel, 1964, from which it is distinguished by the greenish coloration, the flatter spire and the slightly smaller number of whorls. Anatomically, the new species differs from all consubgenerics by the genital morphology: the penis is ...

Catalase and methaemoglobin have very similar haem groups, which are both ferric, yet catalase decomposes hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen very efficiently, while methaemoglobin does not. Structural studies have attributed this behaviour to their different distal environments. Here we present Fe L(2,3)-edge X-ray absorption spectra of these proteins in physiological solutions, which reveal...

The CAOS system aims to assist the orthopaedic surgeon in performing intramedullary nail locking, through the introduction of suitable technology into the operating theatre environment. The system comprises three components, the Smart Image Intensifier, Trajectory Tactician and Intelligent Drill Guide. The Trajectory Tactician is tailored to the requirements of intramedullary nail locking. The ...

PURPOSE To report 3 patients operated on using medial hip arthroscopic portals, describe the surgical technique and clinical outcomes. METHODS Three medial portals were made, the first one at the posterior edge of the adductor longus muscle (posterior medial portal), the second one at the anterior (anterior medial portal) and the third at the posterior border of the adductor longus, 5 cm dist...

The vertex-edge Wiener polynomials of a simple connected graph are defined based on the distances between vertices and edges of that graph. The first derivative of these polynomials at one are called the vertex-edge Wiener indices. In this paper, we express some basic properties of the first and second vertex-edge Wiener polynomials of simple connected graphs and compare the first and second ve...

Macrobrachium indianum new species is described from the Pambar River, Kerala, S. India. The species shares certain characters with M. gurudeve Jayachandran & Raji, 2004, M. bombayense Almelker & Sankolli, 2006 and M. kulkarnii Almelker & Sankolli, 2006, while it differs remarkably from these three species in distinctive diagnostic characters: rostral formula 7-8/3-4 with 1 postorbital teeth, o...