The true incidence rate for Lichen Sclerosus is unknown, as this disease often goes undiagnosed [9]. However, rates between 1 in 30 and 1 in 1,000 have been reported [3,10,11]. Lichen Sclerous can affect men and women at any age. Hormonal changes may exacerbate the disease and therefore the onset of symptoms is noted more frequently at menarche or in post-menopausal woman [12-14]. Women are 6-1...

Johar Raza Syed, SIU Scholar. The Soci et e Internationale d’Urologie (SIU) offers Training Scholarships for young doctors with basic surgical or urological qualifications. The SIU Scholarships involve training in a recognized urological center of excellence located in the candidate’s geographic region. These SIU-accredited centers provide an excellent environment for learning and, in many inst...

Internet search for vulva melanoma revealed typical examples from several countries. The descriptions revealed the parameters such as the presentation at late stage among post-menopausal women with associated lichen sclerosus as well as the Caucasians having a 3-fold higher incidence rate than the individuals of African descent. Therefore, a single case found in a Nigerian among a cohort of ove...

OBJECTIVES To characterise the clinical presentation and response to treatment of lichen sclerosus (LS) in men attending a department of genitourinary medicine. METHODS A case note review of all men attending a GUM department over a 32 month period, who had been diagnosed as having LS. RESULTS 66 men were seen with genital LS. The mean age at diagnosis was 36.5 years but symptoms had been p...

The perception of objects in our visual world is influenced by not only their low-level visual features such as shape and color, but also their high-level features such as meaning and semantic relations among them. While it has been shown that low-level features in real-world scenes guide eye movements during scene inspection and search, the influence of semantic similarity among scene objects ...

There is evidence that people with social anxiety show abnormal processing of emotional faces. To investigate the impact of top-down prediction on emotional face processing in social anxiety, brain responses of participants with high and low social anxiety (LSA) were recorded, while they performed a variation of the emotional task, using high temporal resolution event-related potential techniqu...

ABSTRACT Since users are faced with an ever increasing amount of data, fast and effective retrieval of required information is of vital importance. This study examined two methods of using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to improve the results retrieved using a keyword-based technique using sentence or document context. Fifty participants retrieved information using a standard keyword technique ...

Pavan Gujjar1, Jyoti Zingade2, Shruthi Patil3, Jayadeva Hallur4 1Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Narsinhbhai Patel Dental College and Hospital, Visnagar, Gujarat, India, 2Postgraduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Narsinhbhai Patel Dental College and Hospital, Visnagar, Gujarat, India, 3Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine and Radio...

A recently published article by Ko et al1 illustrates a commonly encountered problem with the interpretation of correlation coefficients in medical research. The authors stated the correlation coefficient ranged from -0.002 to 0.15. If the P value was greater than 0.05, they interpreted the findings as indicating no correlation. Otherwise, there was weak correlation. The t value of the correlat...

Recently, two high-dimensional encoding techniques for human action recognition, namely, Fisher vector (FV) and vector of locally aggregated descriptors (VLAD), are widely employed. In this study, a new human action recognition approach using improved VLAD with localized soft assignment (LSA) and second-order statistics is proposed. When encoding videos into VLAD, instead of considering only th...