A new nemacheilid loach species, Triplophysa qilianensis, is described from Heihe River in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China. It can be distinguished from all other species of Triplophysa by the following combination of characters: body long and compressed; skin smooth, scaleless; head short (20.1-23.1% of stand length); head convex from the position of posterior nostrils; po...

Two children with monosomy 10p13 are reported. In the first case the monosomy was the result of a maternal balanced translocation t(3;10) (p27;p13) while the second case was a de novo mutation. We reviewed clinical details of cases reported so far and found that certain symptoms are typical of the deletion of a comparatively large segment of chromosome 10 short arms. These symptoms include ment...

A method for face and facial features tracking in a low-resolution web camera video stream is described. The detection results are: face bounding ellipse, eyebrow line, nostrils and mouth position. The method works at reasonable framerates on a low-quality web camera on a PIII system. The implementation of the method can be used as input module for a natural human-computer interface system to p...

This work presents a real time system for detection and tracking of facial features in video sequences. Such system may be used in visual communication applications, such as teleconferencing, virtual reality, intelligent interfaces, humanmachine interaction, surveillance, etc. We have used a statistical skin-color model to segment face-candidate regions in the image. The presence or absence of ...

Trouble breathing through the nose is one of man's most common disturbances. Sometimes this may be only a minor and temporary problem. Other times it may be a source of considerable discomfort or threat to health. Anything that interferes with the proper open nasal passage will cause an obstruction to the free flow of air through the nostrils and lead to nasal congestion. When this progresses, ...

We examined how a common therapy that includes clarithromycin affects normally colonizing Staphylococcus epidermidis. Samples from the nostrils of 5 patients receiving therapy were collected before, immediately after, 1 year after, and 4 years after treatment. From each patient and sample, S. epidermidis strains were isolated and analyzed for clarithromycin susceptibility and presence of the er...

An 18-year-old athlete presented to the emergency department after he was hit in the face during football practice. He had pain over his nose, but no blurred vision or loss of consciousness. He had no relevant medical history. Physical examination revealed bleeding from his nostrils and pain over the nasal bridge. His neurologic examination was unremarkable. Radiography and computed tomography ...

The point prevalence and incidence of Staphylococcus aureus (methicillin-sensitive and -resistant) carriage by inpatients on acute elderly care wards was estimated. The relationship to body site and to previous admissions to hospital or other institutions was determined. Fifty-five patients were included in the point prevalence study and 136 in the incidence study, which was performed over a tw...

ftie in April, 1930, complaining of intermittent epistaxis which had started in childhood and which had become more frequent and severe in the last twelve months. On examination, both nostrils were filled with blood clot, and there was also some purulent discharge present. After removal of this, the nasal mucosa was found to be congested and there were a number of dilated veins present on the a...