ALS is a terminal disease of motor neurons that is characterized by accumulation of proteinaceous deposits in affected cells. Pathological deposition of mutated Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) accounts for ∼20% of the familial ALS (fALS) cases. However, understanding the molecular link between mutation and disease has been difficult, given that more than 140 different SOD1 mutants have been o...

Midfacial ( Le Fort) fractures are types of facial fractures involving the maxillary bone and surrounding structures in a usually bilateral and pyramidal. Incorrect and inappropriate treatment of trauma will end with secondary deformity that is very difficult to correct. Twenty five patients with maxillofacial trauma were seen at Maxillofacial Surgery Department at Ramadi Teaching Hospital incl...

Case presentation: A 60-yearold woman presented to the emergency department 2 hours after the onset of severe retrosternal chest pain that started soon after she was told that her son had died in a car accident. A 12-lead ECG demonstrated ST-elevation in the precordial leads (Figure 1), and the plasma troponin T level was elevated at 0.07 ng/mL. A diagnosis of acute ST-elevation myocardial infa...

The occurrences of accidents on the railways are inevitable in today’s world and the factors which may cause it, except the atmospheric and accidental ones, are identified and preventable as well. Therefore, these factors can be investigated and useful actions can be performed in order to reduce these accidents. The main impetus of the present research is the statistical analysis of the causes ...

Although most deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) lesions are accurately repaired before replication, replication across unrepaired lesions is the main source of point mutations. The lesion tolerance processes, which allow damaged DNA to be replicated, entail two branches, error-prone translesion synthesis (TLS) and error-free damage avoidance (DA). While TLS pathways are reasonably well established, D...

A frequent type of annotations in text corpora are labeled text segments. Generalpurpose annotation tools tend to be overly comprehensive, often making the annotation process slower and more error-prone. We present WAT-SL, a new web-based tool that is dedicated to segment labeling and highly customizable to the labeling task at hand. We outline its main features and exemplify how we used it for...

In this paper we study various predicates concerning line transversals to lines and segments in 3D. We compute the degrees of standard methods of evaluating these predicates. The degrees of some of these methods are surprisingly high, which may explain why computing line transversals with finite precision is prone to error. Our results suggest the need to explore alternatives to the standard me...

Using satellite and aerial imagery of Australian waveand storm-prone coastal areas, investigate a variety of image segmentation/classification techniques in GIS and other application environments. During the investigation, establish: (i) the suitability of the techniques for reliable classification of imagery, for instance into sand, rock and mud substrates, (ii) whether they can be implemented...

We report a 20-year-old man who sustained lumbar fractures involving 5 vertebrae following a road traffic accident. He was initially treated non-operatively to allow multiple pedicles to heal. He developed post-traumatic kyphosis for which corrective osteotomy and posterior spinal instrumented fusion was performed. He achieved a good functional outcome. We emphasise the need for careful radiolo...

original article   various aspects of work and occupational diversity and the complexity of the nursing profession have a significant impact on the incidence rate of unsafe acts and consequences of accidents. in this regard, safety attitude will have a significant impact on occupational accidents among nursing personnel. the aim of this study was to assess safety attitude among nurses and its r...