Aspiration of tracheobronchial foreign bodies commonly affects young children, is potentially life threatening and requires early intervention for extraction. Access to facilities and skill manpower for bronchoscopic extraction is however limited in Nigeria. The aim of this study is to describe the experience in our institution with bronchoscopic removal of tracheobronchial foreign bodies and h...

A 59-year-old man was admitted with hemoptysis for 1 month. Chest X-ray and CT scan showed a foreign body (teeth) at right main bronchus and left central mass (Fig. 1a and b), upon which we suspected lung carcinoma. Bridge prosthesis with three teeth at the orifice of the right main bronchus was removed (Fig. 2) and biopsy taken from the tumoral lesion at left main bronchus revealed epidermoid ...

Abstract In the framework of ongoing four-year EU-funded innovation project called e-SAFE (“Energy and seismic affordable renovation solutions”), several solutions for energy deep reinforced concrete (RC) framed buildings in European countries are going to be developed demonstrated. These address both performance building envelope heating cooling indoor spaces, aim prefabricated, customizable, ...

This paper presents the WiseNET ontology for a holistic smart building that re-purposes and integrates static and dynamic information about different domains composing the built context. This ontology binds to a set of elements (vocabulary) from various ontologies by using semantic rules and linked data techniques. The main advantage of the WiseNET system is to produce extra services to buildin...

Conflicts are unavoidable in the projects; there is no project that free from conflicts. At same time, sub-contracting has been, and continues to be a very important aspect building construction industry, as standard procedure construction. Thus, study aims at analyzing conflicts between main contractor domestic sub-contractors projects Tanzania. Qualitative quantitative approaches were employe...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical characteristics, presentation and management of Pardah pin inhalation in female teenagers of single center in northern India. METHODS This was a prospective cross-sectional study being performed in department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery of Sher-i-Kashmir institute of medical sciences located in northern India from January 2009 to December 2012. We...