Although urinary tract infection (UTI) may appear straightforward, it can be a diagnostic challenge to pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and pediatric urologists. While there has been significant progress with regard to our understanding of the pathogenesis and host factors related to a UTI, the diagnosis remains complicated by nonspecific symptoms and the difficulty in obtaining an uncontami...

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Biofeedback treatment uses electronic or mechanical instruments to relay visual and/or auditory evidence to assist a person in gaining control over a physiologic process or function. In pediatric urology patients, biofeedback treatment is used to promote retraining of pelvic muscles. Figure 1 depicts the pathophysiology of dysfunctional voiding. In the figure, increased pelvic floor tension or ...

Mirage effect is contactless and non destructive method which has been used a lot to determine thermal properties of different  kind of samples , transverse photothermal deflection PTD in  skimming configuration with ccd camera  and special programs is used to determine thermal conductivity of porous silicon ps  film. Ps samples were prepared by electrochemical etching. Thermal conductivity wit...

Mirage effect is contactless and non destructive method which has been used a lot to determine thermal properties of different  kind of samples , transverse photothermal deflection PTD in  skimming configuration with ccd camera  and special programs is used to determine thermal conductivity of porous silicon ps  film. Ps samples were prepared by electrochemical etching. Thermal conductivity wit...

A series of polystyrene hybrid nanocomposites have been fabricated with varying amounts of TiO2 viz., 0, 0.5 and 1 % w/w along with 3% TS by in-situ polymerization method. The influence of surface modified TiO2 nanoparticles on the thermal properties of PS matrix was examined using thermogravimetry and differential scanning calorimetry. Thermal characteristics of the polystyrene/TS/TiO2 hybrid ...