Suicides are divided into simple and complex, the complex one referring to suicide by a combination of more than one method. In general, unplanned complex suicides occur where several different methods are used consecutively because the first method has not achieved the desired effect. In this study, we present a unique unplanned complex suicide case where corrosive ingestion and stabbing were ...

BACKGROUND About twice as many women as men develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), even though men as a group are exposed to more traumatic events. Exposure to different trauma types does not sufficiently explain why women are more vulnerable. METHODS The present work examines the effect of age, previous trauma, negative affectivity (NA), anxiety, depression, persistent dissociation, ...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the effects of Beraprost sodium (Berasil) on subjective leg symptoms in patients with peripheral arterial disease caused by diabetes mellitus. METHODS Ninety-four diabetic patients with peripheral arterial disease were treated with Beraprost in a fixed-dose, prospective, multicenter, cohort study. Beraprost (40 µg) was administered orally 3 times daily (120 µg/...

Glomus tumors are caused by hyperplasia of the glomus body. Extra-digital occasionally challenging to identify. We report a case patient who was misdiagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome and eventually after surgical excision it found be tumor. Tumors must therefore considered in differential diagnosis individuals extra digital lesions that present at wrist stabbing pain, hypersensitivity, parox...

Occipital neuralgia is usually defined as paroxysmal stabbing pain in the greater or lesser occipital nerve (GON or LON) distribution. In occipital neuralgia patients, surgical considerations are carefully taken into account if medical management is ineffective. However, identification of the occipital artery by palpation in patients with thick necks or small occipital arteries can be technical...

Introduction Severe postoperative pain is an important risk factor for onset of chronic inguinal pain following inguinal hernia repair. All measures must be taken to eliminate postoperative pain. Materials and methods This case report highlights the problems of severe postoperative pain following transabdominal preperitoneal patch plasty (TAPP) inguinal hernia repair and describes a systemati...

We answer the question initially posed by Arik Tamir at the Fourth NYU Computational Geometry Day (March, 1987): “Given a collection of compact sets, can one decide in polynomial time whether there exists a convex body whose boundary intersects every set in the collection?” We prove that when the sets are segments in the plane, deciding existence of the convex stabber is NP-hard. The problem re...

Repairing Virtual Reality (VR) models is a challenge for productive applications. This paper describes a fast implementation of Nooruddin and Turk’s ray-stabbing method 14 based on standard graphics hardware. Raystabbing is used to convert a polygonal model into a volume model (also called voxelization). The volume model is back-converted into a polygonal model using the marching cubes (MC) alg...

To pre-process a scene for the purpose of visibility culling during walkthroughs it is necessary to solve visibility from all the elements of a finite partition of viewpoint space. Many conservative and approximate solutions have been developed that solve for visibility rapidly. The idealised exact solution for general 3D scenes has often been regarded as computationally intractable. Our exact ...

In natural language processing, stand-off annotation uses the starting and ending positions of an annotation to anchor it to the text and stores the annotation content separately from the text. We address the fundamental problem of efficiently storing stand-off annotations when applying natural language processing on narrative clinical notes in electronic medical records (EMRs) and efficiently ...