A single case study of a patient with 'visual form agnosia' is presented. A severe visual recognition deficit was accompanied by impairments in discriminating shape, reflectance, and orientation, although visual acuity and colour vision, along with tactile recognition and intelligence, were largely preserved. Neuropsychological and behavioural investigations have indicated that the patient is a...

Point-of-care ultrasound is a critical component of graduate medical training in emergency medicine. Innovation in ultrasound teaching methods is greatly needed to keep up with a changing medical landscape. A field-wide trend promoting simulation and technology-enhanced learning is underway in an effort to improve patient care, as well as patient safety. In an effort to both motivate students a...

BACKGROUND The McCollough effect is a colour after-effect that is contingent on the orientation of the patterns used to induce it. To produce the effect, two differently oriented grating patterns--such as a red-and-black vertical grating and a green-and-black horizontal grating--are viewed alternatively for a few minutes. After this period of adaptation, if the black-and-white test gratings are...

The geometry of a metallic scaffold is important for the success bone implants, where introduction porosity can reduce stress shielding effects and allow tissue integration. In this work, porous scaffolds were designed to closely mimic natural structure trabecular using selective Voronoi tessellation with preferential seeding. A workflow generate these structures introduced, voided regions seed...

Pharmaceutical care signifies a shift of practice in pharmacy from being drug product-oriented to the one that is patient-oriented to achieve definite outcomes that improves patients' quality of life. In order to achieve pharmaceutical care, pharmacists have to assume the role of caregiver, communicator, decision-maker, teacher, researcher, life-long learner, leader, and manager, which will hel...

Introduction: Supine patient positioning in conjunction with twoincision minimally invasive surgery (MIS-2 incision) total hip arthroplasty (THA) increases difficulty of accurate and repeatable cup orientation in accordance with pre-operative planning. Investigators have suggested advantages of utilizing computer assisted orthopaedic surgery (CAOS) to successfully eliminate extreme outlying ace...

A new ultrasound wireless positioning system is developed that gives the surgeon the exact 3D location and orientation of the instruments in the patient. The measuring system employs ultrasound markers/ transmitters placed on the instruments, outside of the human body. Knowing the dimensions of the usually rigid instruments it is possible to calculate their position and orientation inside the p...