A 24-year-old man was brought to an outside hospital emergency department by his mother after the distal three-quarters of his penis with a utility knife was completely amputated. The patient was hemodynamically stable at the time of presentation; however, he was actively bleeding from the dorsal penile arteries. Vascular clamps were placed for hemostasis, a Foley catheter was placed into the u...

OBJECTIVE To describe a European family with cortical tremor, epilepsy, and mental retardation, the pedigree of which indicates an autosomal dominant inheritance of the disease. DESIGN Clinical, laboratory, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging data were studied. SETTING Institute for research on mental retardation. PATIENTS Two siblings (aged 25 and 28 years) and their 49-year-old mother ...

This paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent findings from the biological literature suggest that the so-called slow growth period around age 9 is a sensitive period for male germ cell development. We build on this evidence and investigate whether undernutrition at those ages transm...

Karen is 22 and cares for her mother, who has rheumatoid arthritis, and her grandmother who has had a stroke. Karen has been assisting her mother since she was 12 and her grandmother since she was 18. She has never entered the labour market and is a full-time carer, receiving invalid care allowance. She feels unable to leave home while her family needs her support, and experiences stress, tired...

In this short review, I revise the notion of gnostic cells posited by Konorski, together with similar arguments by James, Lettvin and Barlow--namely, the idea of pontifical, grandmother and cardinal cells, respectively. I then discuss whether the characteristics of the recently discovered concept cells, i.e. neurons in the human medial temporal lobe with a very high degree of specificity and in...

This study examines the politeness strategies of characters in Princess Diaries movie. The data were utterances Mia and her grandmother, main analysis is based on Scollon Scollon's theory. As a result, researcher found that Her Grandmother employed two types politeness: involvement independent strategies. used twenty strategies, including four sixteen other hand, fifteen strategies: twelve thre...