here we describe a case of ophthalmomyiasis in a male patient with basal cell carcinoma. during the operation several live and motile maggots were removed from the lesion. preliminary examination on the larvae confirmed their affiliation to the genus sarcophaga (diptera: sarcophagidae).this genus is widely distributed throughout the world and species are very difficult to identify. the authors ...

In 15 patients who underwent open exploration of the brachial plexus, the somatosensory evoked potentials and nerve action potentials recorded at the time of operation were useful as guides to the most appropriate surgical procedure, and also in predicting the outcome in certain lesions. In three patients the apparent normality of the upper trunk of the plexus was concealing a more proximal les...

We prove the existence of a compact, finite dimensional, global attractor for a coupled PDE system comprising a nonlinearly damped semilinear wave equation and a nonlinear system of thermoelastic plate equations, without any mechanical (viscous or structural) dissipation in the plate component. The plate dynamics is modelled following Berger’s approach; we investigate both cases when rotational...

INTRODUCTION In a human rights based approach, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has recently released a resolution about migrants and refugees and the fight against HIV (1). It states that "an HIV positive migrant should never be expelled when it is clear that he will not receive adequate health care and assistance in the country to which he is being sent back. To do otherwis...

The clinical course of 140 patients who have had a split ileostomy for ulcerative colitis or colonic Crohn's disease over a 20 year period is reported. In 37 patients with ulcerative colitis there was no sustained improvement. In the 102 patients with Crohn's disease there was an immediate clinical improvement in 95, which was sustained in 65. Thirty patients have subsequently required a procto...

This paper proposes the session layer communication continuity support for Java applications toward a continuous operation for the users. In a mobile computing environment, mobile hosts move around the di erent network segments even during applications communicate with the remote endpoint. In such a situation, maintenance of the communication continuity between the applications is signi cant. I...

In this paper we prove a general result concerning continuity of the blow-up time and the blow-up set for an evolution problem under perturbations. This result is based on some convergence of the perturbations for times smaller than the blow-up time of the unperturbed problem together with uniform bounds on the blow-up rates of the perturbed problems. We also present several examples. Among the...

The total momentum of a thermodynamically closed system is unique, as is the total energy. Nevertheless, there is continuing confusion concerning the correct form of the momentum and the energy–momentum tensor for an electromagnetic field interacting with a linear dielectric medium. Here we investigate the energy and momentum in a closed system composed of a propagating electromagnetic field an...

This paper proposes two novel optimized BitTorrent-like protocols for interactive multimedia streaming: the Simple Interactive Streaming Protocol (SISP) and the Exclusive Interactive Streaming Protocol (EISP). The former chiefly seeks a trade-off between playback continuity and data diversity, while the latter is mostly focused on playback continuity. To assure a thorough and up-to-date approac...