There are about 13 million people spread over the globe who can trace their origins back to the Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan). The term Indo-origin is used to describe them in this article. The official figure of 1.5 million Indo-origin people settled in the United Kingdom is certainly an underestimate which the 1991 census results may improve.' The majority are still first-...

Venous air embolism (VAE) is the entrapment of air or medical gases into the venous system causing symptoms and signs of pulmonary vessel obstruction. The incidence of VAE during cesarean delivery ranges from 10 to 97% depending on surgical position or diagnostic tools, with a potential for life-threatening events. We reviewed extensive literatures regarding VAE in detail and herein described V...

Children in especially difficult circumstances (CEDC) is a worldwide problem with a ' labyrinth of compartments. It is sad to note that the problem is manmade, and that the most serious threat to our children is humankind itself. The causes of the escalation of this problem are multifactorial, but of great significance are the observations concerning a degradation of values and failing moral, s...

Consciousness tends to be viewed either as subjective experience of sensations and feelings, or as perception and internal representation of objects. This paper argues that neither view sufficiently acknowledges that consciousness may refer to the brain's most adaptive property: its capacity to produce states of objectivity. It is proposed that this capacity relies on multiple sensorimotor netw...

It is well known that the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is involved in the control of blood pressure. Recently, all or part of the components concerning the RAS have been reported to be synthesized and secreted outside of classical organs or tissues, at sites including the brain, pituitary and pineal glands, eye, heart, adrenal gland, testes, ovary, placenta, and coagulating glands. The functi...

Prolonged and poor control of diabetes has detrimental effects on the immune system by reducing both B and T cell function, causing neutrophilic dysfunction and less production of inflammatory cytokines. This makes people with diabetes vulnerable to various bacterial, viral and fungal infections in all body organs. The commonest cause of chronic renal disease is uncontrolled diabetes, placing p...

Pneurnonectomy has recently made a rernarkable development on account of the discovery of penicillin and streptomycin. When compared with it open drainage treatment has much fallen behind in its development, although it belongs to the same category as pneumonectomy, both being direct rnethods of treatment. This may due to various reasons, but the most basic one rnay be that the technique of cav...

We discuss how the a 0 (980), f 0 (980), K * 0 (1430) and particularly the broad σ resonance can be understood within a coupled channel framework, which includes all light two-pseudoscalar thresholds together with constraints from Adler zeroes, flavour symmetric couplings, unitarity and physically acceptable analyticity. All q ¯ q scalars are, when uni-tarized, strongly distorted by hadronic ma...

Interest in African cardiology has been focused on its two main peculiarities. One is the welldocumented rarity of coronary thrombosis. The other is the prevalence of cardiomyopathies of unknown origin among indigenous Africans. While both are receiving much publicity their extent has been difficult to assess. In the relatively undeveloped areas, where their incidence might be of greatest inter...

where Bn, n ≥ 0, denotes the nth Bernoulli number, and where σν(n) = ∑ d|n d ν . The latter two representations in (1.1) can be established by using the Lipschitz summation formula or Fourier analysis. For these and other basic properties of Eisenstein series, see, for example, R. A. Rankin’s text [41, Chap. 6]. In Ramanujan’s notation, the three most relevant Eisenstein series are defined for ...