Pica and concomitant gustatory and olfactory deviations are factors playing predisposing role in development of substance dependence. Severity and age of onset of pica are significant for heightening the risk of dependent behavior formation. In spite of heightened frequency of family history signs of iron deficiency in addicts, to the moment of examination they more often display not iron defic...

This paper introduces Pica, a fine-grain, message passing architecture designed to efficiently support high-throughput parallel applications. This focus on high-throughput applications allows a small local memory of 4096 36-bit words. The architecture minimizes overhead for basic parallel operations. An operand-addressed context cache and round-robin task manager allow single cycle task swaps. ...

The most frequent type of cerebellar infarcts involved the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) and superior cerebellar artery territories but bilateral involvement of lateral or medial branches of PICA is extremely rare. In this report, we present a 55-year-old male who admitted to hospital with vomiting, nausea and dizziness. On examination left-sided hemiparesia and ataxic gait were d...

Aneurysms arising from the distal anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) are very rare. When the parent artery is an AICA-posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) variant, occlusion of the artery, even distal to the meatal loop, leads to a significant area of cerebellar infarction. We report two cases of ruptured partially thrombosed distal AICA aneurysms. In both cases, the parent arter...

The posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) is a vessel located between the intra- and extracranial circulation. The artery is characterized by a complex embryological development and numerous anatomical variants. The authors present a case of the PICA supplied by both a hypertrophic anterior spinal artery and a hypoplastic bulbar artery. This unusual arrangement somehow completes the list ...

A Protocol Independent Compression Algorithm (PICA) has been developed and a preliminary analysis has been performed. PICA has achieved a 76% reduction in bit rate on DIS PDUs logged from an experimental exercise. Key characteristics of the algorithm are its protocol independence (i.e., independent of SIMNET or DIS version), computational efficiency, and its full maintenance of protocol data re...

The optimal treatment and appropriate follow-up period for an unruptured vertebral artery (VA) and/or posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) dissection have not been established. Decisions regarding treatment of these vascular lesions are usually based on the manifesting symptoms and changes in radiologic findings during the follow-up period. We experienced a patient who had a simultaneous...

Percutaneous image-guided cryoablation (PICA) in relieve pain from metastatic bone disease was performed 24 patients. The cryoprobes were navigated and the ice sphere monitored using computed tomography. Each patient, depending on volume of lesion, underwent one to four ablations. Pain assessment a numerical rank scale. A decrease index after PICA 4.1±0.8 points 1.3±0.5 points. duration analges...

Abstract Parent artery occlusion is a definitive treatment method for preventing rebleeding of dissecting aneurysms. We herein report case ruptured distal posterior inferior cerebellar (PICA) aneurysm treated with internal trapping using n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate (NBCA). A 65-year-old man visited our hospital complaint headache and neck pain that began 1 week before his arrival. He had history sp...