The common egg shell, Ovula ovum, is found in shallow reefs (down to 20 m) throughout the IndoPacific. It belongs to the family Ovulidae and is closely related to the true cowries of the family Cypraeidae (Abbott and Dance 2000). O. ovum are very common in the Marshall Islands especially around Majuro atoll where the local people collect them extensively. The shiny white shells are sold alone o...

In decorative tattooing, pigment is introduced into the skin with needles or a tattoo gun to create a picture, motif or symbol. Various skin reactions have been reported in association with tattoos. These include acute inflammatory reactions, eczematous hypersensitivity reactions, pseudolymphomatous reactions and skin infections. We present a 24-year-old Malay man who developed multiple epiderm...

due to human beings’ aesthetic sense, they have always been engaged in embellishing their living environment throughout the history. given the different culture, customs, beliefs and even varied policy of each society, the applied arts or decorative styles have constantly been evolved. the qajar architecture was influenced by russian and central europe styles, and by combining them with the ira...

INTRODUCTION Urinary stone disease is a major urological condition. Endourologic techniques have influenced the clinical approach and outcomes. Open surgery holds a historic importance in the management of most conditions. However, complex kidney stone burden may be amenable to successful results with open stone surgery. In this article, we report our eighteen cases of complex urinary stone dis...

The collection of the rough set pairs of an approximation (U, R) can be made into a Stone algebra by defining two binary operators and one unary operator on the pairs. By introducing a more unary operator, one can get a regular double Stone algebra to describe the rough set pairs of an approximation space. Sequent calculi corresponding to the rough alg...

PURPOSE To evaluate factors affecting the success rate of stone fragmentation and stone-free rate after extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) in treatment of upper urinary tract stones. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 121 patients with upper urinary tract calculi underwent SWL treatment. RESULTS Success rate of stone fragmentation after SWL was 73.6% (89/121). In 89 patients who had s...