INTRODUCTION Silent sinus syndrome (SSS) is a rare disorder with protean manifestations. An absence of familiarity with ambiguous and atypical presentations may complicate diagnosis and delay management. CASE PRESENTATION A 28year old female patient presented with a chronic history of headache, post-nasal discharge and recurrent facial pain refractory to analgesics. Enophthalmos and hypoglobu...

The Screen Saver Science (SSS) project aims to develop a computing resource composed of a heterogeneous set of PCs, scientific workstations, and other available computers, that can be easily used by scientists to execute large, highly distributed, compute-intensive applications. Each computer would participate only when it would otherwise be idle, that is, when its screen saver would be running...

OBJECTIVE To compare in vitro biomechanical properties of a novel suture pattern to a current standard for primary repair of equine superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) laceration. STUDY DESIGN In vitro randomized, paired design. ANIMALS Cadaveric equine forelimb SDFT (n = 24). METHODS The 3-loop pulley (3LP) and 6-strand Savage (SSS) suture patterns were applied to transected equine ...

Sanjad-Sakati Syndrome (SSS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by congenital hypoparathyroidism, growth retardation and dysmorphism. Thyroid status of patients with SSS has not been widely explored. Therefore, we aimed to review the occurrence of autoimmune thyroiditis, which is commonly associated with other genetic disorders, in SSS. A retrospective hospital based study was...

Dynamic and static assessments in phonological disorders provide different information about a child’s skills and development. Dynamic assessments evaluate a child’s phonological system when given support, whereas static assessments evaluate skills without support. The Scaffolding Scale of Stimulability (SSS), described in this article, is one example of a dynamic assessment used to evaluate ph...

Splice sites (SSs)--short nucleotide sequences flanking introns--are under selection for spliceosome binding, and adhere to consensus sequences. However, non-consensus nucleotides, many of which probably reduce SS performance, are frequent. Little is known about the mechanisms maintaining such apparently suboptimal SSs. Here, we study the correlations between strengths of nucleotides occupying ...

Encrypting information has been regarded as one of the most substantial approaches to protect users’ sensitive information in radically changing internet technology era. In prior research, researchers have considered similarity search over encrypted documents infeasible, because the single-bit difference of a plaintext would result in an enormous bits difference in the corresponding ciphertext....

The transfer of B lymphocytes from mice immunized with type III pneumococcal polysaccharide (SSS-III) results in antigen-specific suppression of the antibody response of recipients immunized with SSS-III. Such suppression shares many features associated with low-dose paralysis, a phenomenon mediated by suppressor T cells; it reaches maximal levels 3 d after the transfer of viable or irradiated ...