BACKGROUND Accidents are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in children. The aim of this population-based study was to describe characteristics of head injuries leading to hospitalization in children less than 15 years old, in a defined geographic population (Aquitaine: 2.7 millions inhabitants) and the longterm outcome (5-year follow up) of a sample of these patients. PATIENTS AND ME...

BACKGROUND Adolescents do present with somatization disorder which is often neglected by pediatricians. This could have serious consequences if not curbed early. OBJECTIVES This study is aimed at determining the pattern and types of Somatization disorder among adolescents attending secondary schools in south east Nigeria. METHODS Somatization disorder was investigated among 485 adolescents ...

background: head lice infestation caused by pediculus humanus var capitis ( pediculus capitis ) is a worldwide public health concern that affects mostly school aged children. this descriptive, analytical study was carried out in 2008 to determine the prevalence of pediculosis capitis and some risk factors among primary-school pupils in bahar, hamadan province, iran. methods: we selected 900 pup...

This paper presents a geostatistical approach to multi-directional aquifer stimulation in order to better identify the transmissivity ®eld. Hydraulic head measurements, taken at a few locations but under a number of different steady-state ̄ow conditions, are used to estimate the transmissivity. Well installation is generally the most costly aspect of obtaining hydraulic head measurements. There...

Physiological noise arising from a variety of sources can significantly degrade the detection of task-related activity in BOLD-contrast fMRI experiments. If whole head spatial coverage is desired, effective suppression of oscillatory physiological noise from cardiac and respiratory fluctuations is quite difficult without external monitoring, since traditional EPI acquisition methods cannot samp...

With ever-increasing display resolution for wide field-of-view displays—such as head-mounted displays or 8k projectors—shading has become the major computational cost in rasterization. To reduce computational effort, we propose an algorithm that only shades visible features of the image while cost-effectively interpolating the remaining features without affecting perceived quality. In contrast ...

At NTCIR-6 CLIR, Toshiba participated in the Monolingual and Bilingual IR tasks covering three topic languages (Japanese, English and Chinese) and one document language (Japanese). For Stage 1 (which is the usual ad hoc task using the new NTCIR6 topics), we submitted two DESCRIPTION runs and two TITLE runs for each topic language. Our first search strategy is Selective Sampling with Memory Rese...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Direct suspension laryngoscopic biopsy performed under general anesthesia is the conventional management for obtaining pathological diagnosis for neoplasms of the larynx, oropharynx, and hypopharynx. Since the development of distal chip laryngoscopy and digital imaging systems, transnasal flexible laryngoscopy tissue sampling has gained popularity as an office-based proced...

This study focuses on the effect of parenteral administration of Selenium (Se) and vitamin E on concentration of Se in plasma and the activity of glutathione peroxidase (GPx) in the blood of dairy cows during peripartal period and their effect on the reduction of clinical mastitis. From a 220 individuals Holstein herd in a two-four lactation-gestation cycle the control group (C), 1st (D1) and 2...

This paper studies head-related transfer function (HRTF) sampling and synthesis in a three-dimensional auditory scene based on a general modal decomposition of the HRTF in all frequency-range-angle domains. The main finding is that the HRTF decomposition with the derived spatial basis function modes can be well approximated by a finite number, which is defined as the spatial dimensionality of t...