Actinomyces israelii is an uncommon cause of upper genital tract infection. This gram-positive anaerobe is occasionally noted on the Papanicolau smear of asymptomatic patients utilizing the intrauterine device. In this case, a 57-year-old woman presented with postmenopausal vaginal bleeding. A Pap smear showed filamentous microorganisms consistent with Actinomyces israelii (A). Despite a negati...

Mucoactive agents are used to treat a variety of lung diseases involving impaired mucociliary clearance or mucus hypersecretion. The mucoactive agents studied most frequently are N-acetylcysteine (NAC), recombinant human DNase (rhDNase), and hypertonic saline. Studies on the efficacy of these have been mainly conducted in adults, and in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The exact role of muco...

Fractures of the distal end of the femur are infrequent and constitute less than 1% of all fractures. Only 3% to 6% of femoral fractures occur at the distal end. The two groups most at risk of the said fractures are young men and older women. The aim of treatment of fractures of the distal femur is to restore normal function of the knee joint. The authors asked themselves whether, following fix...

For iterative detection in systems employing multiple antennas with an outer code we need a MIMO detector delivering a-posteriori probabilities (APP) about the coded bits. Full-APP detection would lead to prohibitive complexity, therefore we extend for high-level signals the concept of the sphere decoder using an approach from sequential decoding instead of geometrical considerations. We show h...

The fetal origins hypothesis, or Barker hypothesis, is both stimulating and challenging for evolutionary human biologists. While evidence of a correlation between conditions around the time of birth and later health outcomes has been presented before, the more recent evidence of a connection between fetal growth and chronic disease risk later in life has attracted considerable attention among e...

A catastrophic flood occurred on 7 February 2021 around 10:30 AM (local time) in the Rishiganga River, which has been attributed to a rockslide upper reach of Raunthi River. The Resourcesat 2 LISS IV (8 2021) and CNES Airbus satellite imagery (9 clearly show location displaced materials. solar radiation observed was higher than normal by 10% 25% 6 2021, respectively, however, temperature shows ...