Intussusception is a common surgical presentation in paediatrics, however it rare adults. It reported to be the cause of as few 1% small bowel obstruction cases adults.1 Unlike majority paediatric presentations which tend idiopathic, almost all adult are secondary pathological lesions.2,3 We present case ileocolic intussusception 32-year-old male with no significant past medical history. CT abd...

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 100 hr flight from northern Sweden in 2005 June (BLAST05). As part of the calibration and pointing procedures, several compact sources were mapped, including solar system, Galactic, and extragalactic targets, specifically Pallas, CRL 2688, LDN 1014, IRAS 20126+4104, IRAS 21078+5211, IRAS 21307+5049, ...

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of displaced women with those of women unaffected by job loss after establishing the pre-displacement comparability of these groups. Our results reveal that job displacement reduces average fert...

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