Background: Hydrosalpinx is a common cause of female infertility1 and adversely affects the outcomes of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Although IVF is the main treatment, alternative treatments, such as salpingectomy and functional tubal surgery have been suggested.2 Previously, hydrosalpinx was diagnosed using tubal patency tests (transvaginal ultrasound, TVUS; hysterosalpingography, HSG; and l...

A 54-year-old man was admitted to our hospital due to exertional dyspnea. Chest radiography and CT revealed a large, thick-walled cavitary mass and a hydropneumothorax in the right lung in addition to a right hilar tumor and multiple small, thin-walled cavitary nodules (Picture 1). A transbronchial direct vision biopsy of the stenotic lesion of the right bronchus truncus intermedius revealed sq...

A novel dermatophyte species is described in the Microsporum cookei clade. It differs significantly from known taxa in the two molecular markers analyzed, i.e., ITS and partial β-tubulin (BT2). Morphologically the species was characterized by smooth- or only slightly rough-walled conidia, but isolates rapidly became pleomorphic with sparse, smooth- and thick-walled macroconidia in addition to m...

Abstract The paper presents a new modeling technique for accurately predicting the complex behavior of thin-walled open and closed section beams made fiber-reinforced laminated composite materials. is significantly computational-efficient compared to detailed finite element modeling. In this technique, complete 3D stress analysis problem consisting all effects their couplings systematically dec...

Branchotenthes robinoverstreeti n. gen. and n. ap. (Monogenea: Hexabothriidae) infects the gill filaments of the bowmouth guitarfish, Rhina ancylostoma Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (Rhynchobatidae) in the southwest Indian Ocean off Trafalgar, South Africa. The new species is most easily distinguished from other hexabothriids by the combination of having a symmetrical haptor, C-shaped haptoral suck...

In this work, nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to investigate uniform liquid argon flow past a carbon nanotube. In the simulation, nanotubes were modeled as rigid cylinders of carbon atoms. Both argon-argon and argon-carbon interactions were calculated based on Lennard-Jones potential. Simulated drag coefficients were compared with (i) published empirical equati...