The management of hemodynamically normal patients with retained intra-pericardial foreign body remains a matter of conjecture. The available literature supports non-operative management of such innocuous foreign bodies. We report our experience of a hemodynamically normal patient with a retained intra-pericardial pellet from a firearm injury. He initially received successful non-operative manag...

Impaired ankle plantar flexor (APF) function is a frequent cause of gait limitations, but the role of the APF in the forward propulsion of the body remains controversial. To better understand both the direct and indirect effects of the APF during push-off and through advancement of the leg, mechanical work and inverse dynamic analyses were performed on 8 normal subjects during level walking. Du...

OBJECTIVE A lateral tunnel-total cavopulmonary connection (LT-TCPC) using a right atrial (RA) free wall is the first choice of treatment for patients with a small body weight in this institute. Whether the growth of the LT is appropriate or not according to the growth of the body remains controversial. In addition, the optimal initial diameter of an LT is unknown. The purpose of this study was ...

Clogging is one of the main failure mechanisms encountered in industrial processes such as membrane filtration. Our understanding of the factors that govern the build-up of fouling layers and the emergence of clogs is largely incomplete, so that prevention of clogging remains an immense and costly challenge. In this paper we use a microfluidic model combined with quantitative real-time imaging ...

Under normal circumstances, different inner- and outer-body sources are integrated to form coherent and accurate mental experiences of the state of the body, leading to the phenomenon of corporeal awareness. How these processes are affected by changes in inner and outer inputs to the body remains unclear. Here, we aim to present empirical evidence in which people with a massive sensory and moto...

We experience our own body through both touch and vision. We further see that others' bodies are similar to our own body, but we have no direct experience of touch on others' bodies. Therefore, relations between vision and touch are important for the sense of self and for mental representation of one's own body. For example, seeing the hand improves tactile acuity on the hand, compared to seein...

New stable carbon (?13C) and nitrogen (?15N) isotope values of charred plant bone collagen remains from 6th mill. BCE Halai, central Greece, together with datasets Kouphovouno, southern later 6th/early 5th Makriyalos, northern demonstrate how early farming communities in mainland Greece adapted mixed strategies to distinct local environmental cultural settings. Intra-site similarities differenc...

In 2008, a medieval wooden shipwreck was discovered at the port of Rhodes, Greece. The party burned, presenting challenge for conservators, as uncharred, semi-charred and charred waterlogged wood were often encountered on same piece timber. seeking most appropriate conservation method this unusual material, its chemical characterization considered necessary. This study examined chemistry three ...

Charred materials (anthracomass) stored within a soil constitute major part of its pyrogenic archive and could provide evidence past fire events, both natural anthropogenic. However, the dynamics man-made contributions to total anthracomass at different time scales are insufficiently understood. In this study, we determined concentrations, stocks, particle-size distribution in anthropogenically...

In studies of hydrolysis and synthesis of cholesterol esters by aortic enzymes, conventional methods (aside from isotope methodology) are too insensitive to measure reaction products when few aortas are used. High-performance thin-layer chromatography coupled with spectrodensitometry of plates charred after spraying with a cupric acetate-phosphoric acid reagent permitted quantitation of 10-ng a...