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Inserting voluntarily foreign bodies (fb) in penis is used to allegedly improve male sexual performance, popular especially amongst people with low social and financial status. In the largest prison hospital in Romania, during 20032010 we studied a total of 48 patients manifesting this pathology. Foreign bodies were represented by fragments of plastic, oily substances or a combination of the ab...

introduction: tracheobronchial foreign body may often be treated as asthma, chronic bronchitis or etc. especially in patients with no memories of aspiration episodes. case presentation: a 74-year-old woman, suffering from persistent cough, was temporarily misdiagnosed with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and treated for six months. during this period, computed tomography (ct) findings c...

introduction: the phenomenon of neglected foreign bodies is a significant cause of morbidity in soft tissue injuries and may present to dermatologists as delayed wound healing, localized cellulitis and inflammation, abscess formation, or foreign body sensation. localization and removal of neglected soft tissue foreign bodies (stfbs) is complex due to possible inflammation, indurations, granulat...

Nowadays, Wireless Sensor Networks are a hot research topic in the scientific community. Researchers seek to maximize their autonomy while paying attention to their limited resources, few computing capacity and low energy consumption. Security mechanisms must be deployed in the architecture of almost all Wireless Sensor Networks. Several research papers have verified that group-based communicat...

Case description- A 6 month old common mynah (Acridotheres tristis) of unknown sex, weighing 200 g, was referred to Veterinary Teaching Hospital of Ferdowsi University. The mynah had history of swallowing a foreign body for one day. Clinical findings- Circular-like radiopaque foreign body was seen from thoracic inlet to distal end of the celomic cavity in the lateral and ventrodorsal radiograph...

This paper studies the determinants and consequences of equity ownership in multinational affiliates. We construct a multi-period model of foreign direct investment with incomplete contracts and uncertainty to analyse the size of equity stakes. The productivity of a multinational parent and its supplier is unknown initially to both sides and revealed only after joint production. This kind of ma...