Abdominal Cocoon Syndrome (ACS) or sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis is characterized by intestinal obstruction and ileus as a result of encasement of small intestines totally or partially by a thick fibrous sac. We herein present a patient undergoing Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) therapy for chronic renal failure for 3 years who developed intestinal obstruction and perfor...

High-level SDN languages raise the level of abstraction in SDN programming from managing individual switches to programming network-wide policies. In this talk, we present Cocoon (for Correct by Construction Networking), an SDN programming language designed around the idea of iterative refinement. The network programmer starts with a high-level description of the desired network behavior, focus...

Upconversion of infrared light to visible light has important implications for bioimaging. However, the small absorption cross-section of rare earth dopants has limited the efficiency of these anti-Stokes nanomaterials. We present enhanced excitation absorption and single particle fluorescent emission of sodium yttrium fluoride, NaYF4: Yb, Er based upconverting nanoparticles coated with a gold ...

Abdominal cocoon is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction. The abdominal cocoon is probably a developmental abnormality, largely asymptomatic, and is found incidentally at laparotomy or autopsy. Pre-operative diagnosis cannot be often made correctly. This rare entity of intestinal obstruction has been described in the whole literature as a thick fibrotic sac covering the small bowel partially ...

Of the problematic agents in the ecosystem, heavy metals have special importance because they are unabsorbable and have physiologic effects on living beings at low concentrations. This study has investigated the effect of silk worm cocoon on reducing mobility of zinc (Zn) and copper (Cu) for the first time. To this end, 5% cocoon adsorbent was added to the studied soil, which had been contamina...

to determine the effect of hen age and storage condition on egg quality, fresh eggs were sampled from two commercial flocks of white leghorn hens at 28 and 68 weeks of age. half of sampled eggs from each flock were stored at 6°c and the other half was stored at room temperature. fifteen eggs were randomly sampled from each treatment following collection and at 5-day intervals to 30 days of stor...

The research explores the process of silk deposition generated by the silkworm Bombyx mori and proposes a novel fiber-based digital fabrication approach inspired by its biological counterpart. We review a suite of analytical methods used to observe and describe fiber-based constructions across multiple length-scales. Translational research from biology to digital fabrication is implemented by e...

Abdominal cocoon is a rare condition characterized by total or partial encapsulation of the small bowel by a fibro collagenous membrane (cocoon) leading to acute or chronic bowel obstruction. Diagnosis is usually incidental at laparotomy. Imaging plays an important role in disease management. There are well-defined radiologic clues in the diagnosis of abdominal cocoon. A high index of clinical ...