PURPOSE Massive earthquakes are harmful to humankind. This study of a historical cohort aimed to investigate the difference between earthquake-related crush thoracic traumas and thoracic traumas unrelated to earthquakes using a multi-detector Computed Tomography (CT). METHODS We retrospectively compared an earthquake-exposed cohort of 215 thoracic trauma crush victims of the Sichuan earthquak...

Mega quakes pose major threats to modern society, generating casualties and fatalities, disrupting socioeconomic activities, and causing enormous economic loss across the world. Recent major disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2011 Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami, and the 2015 Gorkha Nepal earthquake, are vivid reminders that complex risk cascades drive most earthquake cri...

This article examines retrospective publicsupplied precursor reports statistically, and confirms published hypotheses that some alleged precursors within 100 km and within a day prior to the large 1995 Kobe and 1999 Izmit earthquakes, may be valid. The confirmations are mostly at the p<0.001 level of significance. Most significant were alleged meteorological and geophysical precursors, and less...

An intensive earthquake, the Wenchuan Earthquake of 8.0 on the Richter scale, struck western Sichuan, China on May 12, 2008. The earthquake significantly affected all industries in the quake-hit areas including local tourism. This paper provides suggestions for reconstruction after outlining findings on the various ways by which the earthquake affected the operations and viability of tourism in...

As part of research collaboration between MCEER and the National Center for Research in Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) in Taiwan, a team of MCEER/NCREE researchers undertook a reconnaissance mission shortly after the 921 Chi-Chi earthquake occurred in Taiwan at 1:47 a.m. on September 21, 1999. A major objective of this mission was to assess earthquake-induced damage, to document lessons learned...

acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is the most prevalent hematological malignant tumor during childhood. unilateral infiltration into the gums is less prevalent and more often observed in the aml type. a 12-year-old girl with symptoms of pain and swelling in the buccal vestibule and also at the posterior part of the right palate of the maxilla was referred to a private dental office. the patien...

how to cite this article: bhadbhade a, cheng dw. amyloid precursor protein processing in alzheimer’s disease. iranian journal of child neurology2012;6(1):1-5. alzheimer’s disease (ad) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and a leading cause of dementia. the ad is characterized by presence of intraneuronal tangles and extracellular plaques in the brain. the plaques are composed of dense a...

in this paper, plate-like nio nanoparticles were prepared by one-pot solid-state thermal decomposition of nickel (ii) schiff base complex as new precursor. first, the nickel (ii) schiff base precursor was prepared by solid-state grinding using nickel (ii) nitrate hexahydrate, ni(no3)2∙6h2o, and the schiff base ligand n,n′-bis-(salicylidene) benzene-1,4-diamine) for 30 min without using any solv...