introduction thyroid storm is a rare complication of graves' disease that can carry a poor prognosis. in order to prevent major complications, thyroid storm must be quickly identified in patients and treatment must be promptly implemented. medical treatment is usually initiated with antithyroid medications, such as propylthiouracil (ptu), methimazole, and beta-blockers. however, some patients m...

dust storms are catastrophic natural disasters that beside other disasters frequency occur in the arid and semiaridregions worldwide. drought occurrence, climate aridity, dryness of the hamoun lake cause strong winds to below.these conditions have been prepared for dust storms in sistan region. the damages to sistan society have beenmeasured using different criteria. the result shows that, peak...

dust storms are known as hazardous problems in western part of iran. iraq is one of the main sources for dust storm arriving to the western part of iran. the radial basis function network model (rbfn) has been used to assess wind erosion hazards in the source area of dust storms over several western iranian cities. normalized difference salinity index (ndsi) was used to determine the changes in...

dust storms are catastrophic natural disasters that beside other disasters frequency occur in the arid and semiaridregions worldwide. drought occurrence, climate aridity, dryness of the hamoun lake cause strong winds to below.these conditions have been prepared for dust storms in sistan region. the damages to sistan society have beenmeasured using different criteria. the result shows that, peak...

The plasmaspheric mass density at L ' 2 was monitored by two IGPP/LANL ground magnetometer stations during the magnetic storm on September 25, 1998. Even at this low latitude the plasma density dropped significantly to ' 1/4 of the pre-storm value. The total electron content (TEC) inferred by GPS signals also shows a sizable decrease during the storm. The observations suggest that the convectio...

519 Biologically relevant information in acoustic signals often is present in its temporal structure. For example, the temporal relationships of particular acoustic elements are important for identifying human speech signals1, the proximity of a target in bat sonar2, songs in birds3, and calls in anuran amphibians4 (frogs and toads) and crickets5. In the sensory periphery, these signals are rep...

To cite: Rufino R, Marques BL, Costa CH. Thorax Published Online First: 19 December 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012202827 A 32-year-old man worked as a subsistence farmer raising pigs and tending his small garden; he also kept cats and dogs. He reported fever, night sweats, weight loss of 10 kg over 3 months, haemoptysis and skin ulcers (figure 1). Radiography and chest CT scan (figure 2) showe...

not understand how she came to have parents so entirely different from herself. Spurred by various emotional urges she sets out on a crusade to '' live her own life.'' Usually she discovers herself inadequate to meet life as independently as she would like. She finds also that the consequences of independence are somewhat staggering. It is difficult to understand how anyone who has worked with ...