Authors of this report describe 2 patients who had undergone shunt insertion for hydrocephalus and who, at 6 weeks or 9 months after their last revision, presented with symptoms of shunt dysfunction and CSF collections at the valve site. At the ensuing shunt revision in both patients, the silicone housing was fractured and the Siphonguard was disconnected from the Codman Hakim Precision flat-bo...

Hakim al-Termizi Dahma - in the Middle Ages, Termiz was surrounded by a strong wall, and palaces mosques were built. Craftsmen's merchants' houses built beautified. ensemble at foot of castle. This survived when Genghis Khan's troops invaded destroyed city 13th century. Sheikh Abu Abdullah ibn Ali Muhammad lived end 9th He created number scientific works (but they have not reached us). also tra...

bit of practical wisdom. The phrase is highly metaphorical. Worldly wisdom increases with years; so also do the furrows "which indent the forehead. Therefore an increase of wrinkles on the brow may be regarded as an index of increasing sapience^ and a wrinkle may legitimately stand as a figurative synonym for au item of practical wisdom. This by the way. The champagne Avas in due time placed up...

The Biblical Book of Job is a wisdom book. Wisdom, in this context, refers to the intellectual discipline taught by the sages of ancient Isreael to provide professionals with a realistic approach to the problems of life. Chapter 30 of the Book of Job is a key-index of ideas that, if followed through the book, discloses a modern scientifically accurate description of a depression that, at times,...

The “received wisdom” in contemporary analytic philosophy is that intuition talk is a fairly recent phenomenon, dating back to the 1960s. In this paper, we set out to test two interpretations of this “received wisdom.” The first is that intuition talk is just talk, without any methodological significance. The second is that intuition talk is methodologically significant; it shows that analytic ...

Since the catastrophic Sumatra-Andaman tsunami took place in 2004, 16 other tsunamis have resulted in significant damage and 14 in casualties. We review the fundamental changes that have affected our command of tsunami issues as scientists, engineers and decision-makers, in the quest for improved wisdom in this respect. While several scientific paradigms have had to be altered or abandoned, new...

It is common wisdom that the finished goods inventory increases with the number of variants stored in that inventory. However, to the best of our knowledge, this has never been verified. This paper presents research where this relationship has been analyzed both by applying theory and through analytical simulation. The result shows that this common wisdom is not always true. The number of kanba...