Dercum disease, or adiposis dolorosa, is a rare disorder characterized by multiple painful lipomas distributed throughout the body. There are currently no approved treatments for disease and excision often not feasible due to tumor burden extent of disease. Here we present use deoxycholic acid (DCA) reduce size associated with Ultrasound was used obtain 3-dimensional measurements in three patie...

Selling the Sights: The Invention of Tourist in American Culture. By Will B. Mackintosh. New York: NYU Press, 2019. 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-4798-8937-2. - Volume 96 Issue 2

Stercoral colitis is a rare in lammatory colitis which results from fecal impaction. Fecal impaction may be present for months-to-years prior to causing acute complications. Most cases of stercoral colitis are reported in the surgical literature with late complications of bowel perforation requiring surgery, and many cases are detected only at the time of autopsy. The incidence of stercoral col...

This research develops a hybrid model by integrating K-mean, Neural Network, and Artificial Chromosomes embedded Genetic Algorithms to forecast the electrical load. This hybrid model encompasses two novel concepts: 1. Under the expectations of load balancing, we clustering 272 electrical substations into different clusters, and develop a forecast model of each cluster. 2. Instead of the generat...

In this study surface modified SBA-15, coated with octadecyltrichlorosilane (C18), is considered as an alternative adsorbent for metal ions in water. The SBA-C18 was loaded with Bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl) phosphinic acid (cyanex 272) as the metal ion extractant. The adsorption characteristics of phosphinic acid loaded SBA-C18 were evaluated for Cu(II) and Zn(II) ions in aqueous solution. Adsorp...

Electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) of ferromanganese production units, in the form of slurry, contains tar, alkalies, manganese, zinc, iron, silica, calcium, aluminum and other elements. A hydrometallurgical route based on solvent extraction technique was investigated for selective separation of manganese from the dust. Leaching of the EAFD resulted in an aqueous feed containing 4 g/L of manganes...