nent. The knee was explored and a synovial biopsy showed changes compatible with a hypersensitivity reaction. Aerobic and anaerobic cultures were negative. An arthrodesis using Stainless Steel pins was done for intractable symptoms. She developed cellulitis around all four pin sites. S. Aureus was cultured from one site, but she failed to settle on appropriate antibiotics. The pins were removed...

2. Nuclear fuel consists of fuel pins that are stacks of uranium oxide or mixed uranium plutonium oxide (MOX) cylindrical ceramic pellets, with diameters of 8–15 mm, that are encapsulated in metallic tubes. The fuel pins are grouped together in fuel assemblies. Each fuel assembly can be handled as a single entity, thus simplifying the fuelling and defuelling of reactors and the subsequent handl...

When developing new designs, debugging the prototype is important to resolve application malfunction. During this board design debug, often a few pins of an IC are measured to check signals. Access to these pins is becoming more difficult due to packages like BGA. The JTAG port is an efficient mechanism to gain more access to the ICs. A method is presented to reconfigure the boundary scan chain...

A 69-year-old female presented as an emergency with atrial fibrillation, which was treated with warfarin. She subsequently developed fresh rectal bleeding and after further investigations a Dukes B adenocarcinoma of the rectum was found. She subsequently underwent a low anterior resection, coloanal anastamosis and a defunctioning ileostomy. Three sterile surgical metallic tacks (pins) were inse...

Since proteins exert their functions through interaction with other proteins rather than in isolation, networks of protein interactions are inevitable for understanding protein functions, disease mechanisms, and discovering novel targets of therapeutic drugs (Hase et al. 2009, Barabasi et al. 2011, Vidal et al. 2011). With the recent influx of genome-wide data of protein interactions, many rese...

: This is a case report of intra cranial penetration by halo pins resulting in cerebritis and fits secondary to incorrect halo care by the patient and his family. Halo pin penetration into the skull with brain injury is itself a rare incident. Previously documented case reports were in patients with a previous cranioplasties and they were highlight the fact that halo not to be used in craniopla...

Glutamate was found to stimulate the accumulation of [3H]inositol phosphate in synaptoneurosomes prepared from rat neocortex during a narrowly defined period of postnatal development. No glutamate stimulation was observed on the day of birth, even though high levels of phosphoinositide (PIns) turnover were observed with the muscarinic agonist carbachol. Glutamate-stimulated PIns turnover reache...

Anteriorly displaced fractures of the wrist can be treated by the Kapandji technique of percutaneous intrafocal pinning with pins inserted through an anterior approach to give good reduction and stabilisation of the fracture. We have modified this technique by placing the pins through a posterior approach which decreases the risks of neurovascular damage. We have used this method to treat six c...

Two years after a quadrupled hamstring anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using polylactic acid cross pin femoral fixation, a 32-year-old woman presented with symptoms of knee catching, locking, and stiffness. Diagnostic arthroscopy revealed a loose body in the anterior compartment of the knee which was determined to be part of the polylactic acid femoral fixation pin. The graft was inta...

BACKGROUND In spite of the scale-free degree distribution that characterizes most protein interaction networks (PINs), it is common to define an ad hoc degree scale that defines "hub" proteins having special topological and functional significance. This raises the concern that some conclusions on the functional significance of proteins based on network properties may not be robust. METHODOLOG...