A 54-year-old female with a prosthetic mitral valve presented with a 3-day history of dizziness, subjective fever, and chills. Blood cultures were positive for a pleomorphic Gram-positive rod. Initial phenotypic testing could only support the identification of a Corynebacterium species. Nucleic acid sequencing (16S rRNA) and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectr...

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a common median nerve compression neuropathy involving both sensory and motor components. Its prevalence has been reported to be as high as 5.8% in females and 0.6% in males (1). A diagnosis of CTS requires a combination of patient history, subjective findings and objective testing (2). The most sensitive, nonspecific subjective complaint is numbness (3). Nerve c...

Over the past five years, a huge influx of visual data has arisen within the realm of computing. Consequently, it is evident that a means of automatically indexing this visual information on the basis of content is required. This paper discusses a component of an image retrieval system with the ability to automatically locate and classify an image’s constituent shapes. The images employed are p...

Rod and Frame Testing (RFT) has been used to investigate the effects of an altered visual frame reference on subjective vertical. RFT requires individual align a luminous rod as best they can with true

STUDY OBJECTIVES The purpose was to remedy the lack of experimental studies directly comparing the effects of brief and long daytime naps following nocturnal sleep restriction. DESIGN Twelve young adult healthy sleepers participated in a repeated measures design comparing the effects of no nap, a 10-minute nap, and a 30-minute afternoon nap in each case following a night of 4.7 hours of total...