Bell palsy occurs in different rheumatic diseases, causes hemifacial weakness, and targets the motor branch of the 7th cranial nerve. Severe, persistent, and refractory otalgia having features of neuropathic pain (ie, burning and allodynic) does not characteristically occur with Bell palsy. Whereas aberrant regeneration of the 7th cranial nerve occurring after a Bell palsy may lead to a variety...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to study the prevalence of herpes simplex virus (HSV) and varicella zoster virus (VZV) seropositive patients among diabetic patients with acute peripheral facial paralysis (APFP) as compared to non-diabetics with APFP and a healthy control group. METHODS Participants consisted of 40 diabetic patients and 40 non-diabetic patients with APFP from Hai Al-Jamea Hospital, Jedd...

A certain class of parametric down-conversion Bell type experiments has the following features. In the idealized perfect situation it is in only 50% of cases that each observer receives a photon; in the other 50% of cases one observer receives both photons of a pair while the other observer receives none. The standard approach is to discard the events of the second type. Only the remaining ones...

We present detailed instructions for constructing and operating an apparatus to produce and detect polarization-entangled photons. The source operates by type I spontaneous parametric downconversion in a two-crystal geometry. Photons are detected in coincidence by single-photon counting modules and show strong angular and polarization correlations. We observe more than 100 entangled photon pair...

It was shown in [1], cited in the sequel as DRHM, that upon a correct use of the respective statistical data, the celebrated Bell inequalities cannot be violated by quantum systems. This paper presents in more detail the surprisingly elementary, even if rather subtle related basic argument in DRHM, and does so together with a few comments which, hopefully, may further facilitate its wider under...

The violation of Bell's inequalities in some EPR-type paired-photon experiments could be as much due to the sensitivity of the coincidence monitoring system to timing variations as to other causes of \enhancement". If there are systematic variations of processing time with polarisation angle, then the \factorability" assumption may not hold if window size and other parameters are not carefully ...

Classical Pitowsky correlation polytopes are reviewed with particular emphasis on the Minkowski-Weyl representation theorem. The inequalities representing the faces of polytopes are Boole’s “conditions of possible experience.” Many of these inequalities have been discussed in the context of Bell’s inequalities. We introduce CddIF, a Mathematica package created as an interface between Mathematic...

Bell’s theorem is a fundamental result in quantum mechanics: it discriminates between quantum mechanics and all theories where probabilities in measurement results arise from the ignorance of pre-existing local properties. We give an extremely simple proof of Bell’s inequality: a single figure suffices. This simplicity may be useful in the unending debate of what exactly the Bell inequality mea...

Observation shows that, to a very close approximation, real polarisers and photomultipliers reproduce Malus' Law even at the \single photon" level, giving a sinusoidal variation of \photon" count with polarisation angle. At rst sight, this appears to rule out various realist models of polarisers and detectors, and casts doubt on their ability to explain \paired-photon" EPR experiments. The obse...

Ganglion cysts arising from the temporomandibular joint are rare entities that often present with swelling and minimal to no pain in the preauricular region. To the authors' knowledge, a temporomandibular joint ganglion cyst occurring with acute facial nerve palsy and intracranial extension has never been reported. The patient in the current case initially underwent treatment for Bell palsy and...