A 47-year-old Japanese woman presented with a 3-year history of rash on her lower legs. The eruption tended to worsen in winter. She had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for 6 years and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection for 4 years. Upon physical examination, punctate purpura and pigmentation were scattered over her lower legs and their coalescence formed irregular red-brown patches (Fig...

In Justice for People on the Move, Gillian Brock constructs an elaborate normative framework, based human rights practice, to assess how states must treat international migrants in order legitimate exclusionary claims self-determination. this discussion piece, I argue that framework cannot always satisfactorily explain when and why it is impermissible remove irregular from their territory (i.e....

Parental racial socialization of children arises, in part, out of personal experiences with one’s own parents. Bay’s feelings of powerlessness that she and her mother felt have shaped how Bay parents her own children. She is determined to raise her children to resist and challenge racist behaviors by providing them with the support and skills to do so. As a parent, she has moved from feeling po...

46-year-old Caucasian woman with mental retardation experienced discomfort and irregular menstrual bleeding, which had been increasing for 2 years. The physician from her group home sent her to a gynecologist, where a mass prolapsing through the cervix was noted on physical examination. Cervical and endometrial biopsies were done. Both showed polypoid fragments of endometrium with complex hyper...

Gait-related back movements require coordination of multiple extremities including the flexible trunk. Ageing and chronic back pain influence these adjustments. These complex coordinations can advantageously be quantified by information theoretically based communication measures such as the gait information flow (GIF). Nine back pain patients (aged 61+/-10 yr) and 12 controls (aged 38+/-10 yr) ...

Professional competence in the job needs a serious attention as the last decade has seen an increase in the number of industries like the IT Sectors, Retail, Travel, Transport, Financial Services, Hospitality, Beauty and Health care. Even though job opportunities have increased to considerable extent in recent years, it is difficult to find a suitable candidate and this merely indicates that we...

Automatic music composition is an enchanting field of research, inspiring both researchers and musicians. The implementation of systems that perform this task, incorporates an algorithmic part which makes decisions on which notes/sounds will be heard, when they will be heard, for how long and how loud. The intriguing part of automatic composition is the process of formulating such algorithms, i...