Genitourinary tuberculosis, the second most common extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB), is very difficult to diagnose unless one maintains a high index of suspicion. Isolated tuberculous epididymitis (ITE), defined as tuberculous epididymitis without clinical evidence of either renal or prostate involvement, is a rare entity among genitourinary tuberculosis. When diagnosed correctly, ITE can be cu...

BACKGROUND Both clinical workload and access to learning resource are important components of educational environment and may have effects on clinical knowledge of residents. METHODS We conducted a survey with a clinical knowledge evaluation involving postgraduate year (PGY)-1 and -2 resident physicians at teaching hospitals offering 2-year postgraduate training programs required for resident...

Initial Teacher Education (ITE) is a critical arena for advancing inclusion in Health and Physical (HPE). This paper reports research that engaging with the diversity of HPE profession practitioners. It centres on unique case study critically explored school-based professional experience an Australian secondary Pre-service (PsT) who has hearing impairment. Specifically, to enable PST success ex...

A new group of synthetic resins (the ethoxyline or epoxide resins) has been widely accepted in industry during the last few years. These resins, thanks to their novel properties as adhesives and casting resins, are used in the modern manufacture of various kinds of apparatus, of electrical equipment, of automobiles, and of aircraft. They are usually supplied in the form of two reactive componen...

Sodic amphiboles in high pressure and ultrahigh pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks are complex solid solutions in the system Na2O±MgO±Al2O3±SiO2± H2O (NMASH) whose compositions vary with pressure and temperature. We conducted piston-cylinder experiments at 20±30 kbar and 700±800 °C to investigate the stability and compositional variations of sodic amphiboles, based on the reaction glaucophane ˆ 2...

BACKGROUND Several residency program characteristics have been suggested as measures of program quality, but associations between these measures are unknown. We set out to determine associations between these potential measures of program quality. METHODS Survey of internal medicine residency programs that shared an online ambulatory curriculum on hospital type, faculty size, number of traine...

Clinobaryl-ite, ideally BaBe(2)Si(2)O(7) (chemical name barium diberyllium disilicate), is a sorosilicate mineral and dimorphic with baryl-ite. It belongs to a group of compounds characterized by the general formula BaM(2+) (2)Si(2)O(7), with M(2+) = Be, Mg, Fe, Mn, Zn, Co, or Cu, among which the Be-, Fe-, and Cu-members have been found in nature. The crystal structure of clinobaryl-ite has bee...

We demonstrate the Integrated Testing Environment, ITE, an environment for automated and integrated testing at system level. A companion paper [4] describes the problem of systems integrated testing in its conceptual application modelling focus. Here and in [5], the concept’s implementation is exemplified in case of automated integrated testing of a Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) system. ...

Currently, divinylbenzene cross-linked polystyrene (DVB-PS) is the polymer of choice for use in solid-phase organic synthesis (SPOS). While much research has been directed toward the optimization of linker groups for the attachment of compounds to the polymer, the development of new polymers themselves has been relatively neglected. In an attempt to overcome the shortcomings of DVB-PS and to de...

The wear resistance of microfilled and conventional composite resins, was examined, using two sizes of abrasive particles for polishing. The mechanical properties of the composite resins were also studied and evaluated in relation to wear. Conventional composites showed much lower wear resistance than the microfilled resins. The amalgam and human enamel abraded with 10ƒÊm SiC particles, had str...