An 18 year old man presented with cough and dyspnoea caused by pulmonary infarction. A large friable mass of organising thrombus in an anatomically normal right ventricle was identified as an embolic source. The acute illness was associated with raised titres of anticardiolipin antibodies, one of the antiphospholipid group. This thrombus recurred after surgical removal but subsequently was diss...

Fallopian tube neoplasms are rare. We report a rare case of fallopian tube papilloma discovered incidentally in a 45 year old female, operated for procidentia. Right tube was dilated at the infundibular region, with friable grey white tissue in the lumen. Microscopy showed delicate branching papillae lined by a single layer of epithelium resembling tubal lining. There were no features to sugges...

Understanding the groundwater chemical regime on irrigated lands is relevant for assessing hydrogeological and reclamation processes. Water chemistry, natural climatic conditions, drainage characteristics define complex hydrochemical connections which are formed between irrigation waters, soil, water of unsaturated zone groundwater. This research paper presents results studies seasonal changes ...

The Alp Transit Gotthard is an ambitious railway construction project, which will incorporate the world's longest railway tunnel of 57 km travelling through the Swiss Alps and under the St. Gotthard massif. Future passenger trains will journey at speeds of up to 250 km/h, adding further to the highly successful European high-speed network and bringing a huge reduction in travelling time. The co...

Javoří hory Mountains is a part of Intra Sudetic Basin that belongs to the Permian-Carboniferous section of the Bohemian Massif, whose geological evolution was strongly influenced by volcanic activity. In the Pleistocene epoch cryogenic processes modeled the mountains significantly (frost cliffs, gelifluction streams), which resulted, in connection to the slope orientations, in substantial moun...

Résumé Le pneumopéritoine spontané est une affection rare caractérisée par la présence d’un épanchement d’air libre dans la cavité péritonéale en l’absence de toute cause évidente, nous rapportons une observation d’un pneumopéritoine massif de découverte scanographique dont l’exploration clinique, biologique, radiologique et cœlioscopique n’a aboutie a aucune étiologie décelable. Cette observat...

Several hundred late Holocene fossils from Trouing Jean Paul, a cave in Massif de la Selle, Haiti, represent an extinct species of woodcock (Scolopax brachycarpa, new species). Scolopax brachycarpa is known from most major skeletal elements; although volant, its carpometacarpus was very short relative to its humerus. The only other species of Scolopax from the West Indies is the extinct and pre...

Nowadays, Olympic Games have become one of the most profitable global media events, becoming at the same way more and more attractive target from the terrorist perspective due to their media diffusion and international dimension. Critical for the success of such a highly visible event is protecting and securing the business and the supporting cyber-infrastructure enabling it. In this context, t...

Also in the body of their letter, the authors note that “A great advantage of curettage over scalpel or laser surgery arises from the ability of a semisharp curette to differentiate and remove friable abnormal tissue from the normal surrounding tissue.” Many would question the validity of this statement. There are multiple studies demonstrating that a dermatologist with a curette cannot always ...