Article points 1. Sexual dysfunction in men with diabetes has been talked about for many years and a great deal of important research has been carried out. It has been linked to neuropathic and vascular changes that occur in diabetes, as well as medication side-effects and psychogenic factors. 2. The healthcare professional carrying out the consultation should conduct a detailed assessment of t...

Autoimmune conditions are common with an estimated prevalence in the UK of 2.5%. The presence of one condition should always prompt the clinician to look for others if new symptoms arise. Autoimmune polyglandular syndromes are well described. However, it is unusual for two or more autoimmune conditions to present simultaneously. We describe a case of two autoimmune conditions--type 1 diabetes a...

Porphyrias are inherited metabolic disorders resulting from a specific enzyme defect in the heme biosynthetic pathway. Porphyrias are induced by various precipitants. Clinical features include abdominal pain, neurologic manifestations, autonomic neuropathy, and mental disturbance. Diagnosis may be delayed because of variable symptoms that mimic other diseases and because of the rarity of of por...

Introduction Spike noise is a term used to describe broadband electrical interference in an MRI system. The result of spike noise can be seen in k-space as a bright dot. After the image reconstruction processing, the spike noise produces an undesired corduroy or wavy pattern over the magnetic resonance image. Typical sources of spike noise include unclosed door, a failed receiver channel, elect...

In this work, the development of a point-of-care (PoC) system to capture aerosol from litres of air directly onto a microfluidic lab-on-chip for subsequent analysis is addressed. The system involves an electrostatic precipitator that uses corona charging and electrophoretic transport to capture aerosol droplets onto a microfluidic air-to-liquid interface for downstream analysis. A theoretical s...

tio 2 nanoparticles (nps) might be considered as the most important photosensitizer due to high photocatalytic and sonocatalytic efficiency, low toxicity, excellent biocompatibility, low cost and high chemical stability. tio 2 -nps normally tend to aggregate in physiological medium and which results to decreased cell viability and inducing expression of stress-related genes. thus dispersion and...

this study aims to investigate and optimize the effects of the main parameters including the particle size, gravity and magnetic separation combination, high gradient magnetic separation, magnetic field intensity, shaking table slope, washing water flow, and electrostatic separation upon the rare earth element (ree) recoveries from iron mine waste. the electron microprobe showed that high amoun...

The use of electrical corona discharge opens broad possibilities for effective development of electrostatic precipitators (ESPs). The object of the work is the study of the corona discharge in different gases at high temperature / high pressure (HT/HP) conditions. The studies are carried out in a HT/HP ionizer in the pure synthetic air, N2, He and He-synthetic air and He-N2 gas mixtures. Corona...

This paper aims to analysis the behavior of DC corona discharge in wire-to-plate electrostatic precipitators (ESP). Currentvoltage curves are particularly analyzed. Experimental results show that discharge current is strongly affected by the applied voltage. The proposed method of current identification is to use the method of least squares. Least squares problems that of into two categories: l...