Introduction: In order to achieve a higher success rate for tympanoplasty, different techniques have been developed, and a wide variety of grafting materials have been developed. One of the techniques currently receiving considerable attention involves not lifting the remaining of eardrum from the malleus and embedding the graft underneath in order to repair the eardrum correctly in its origina...

BACKGROUND The severity and course of spinal pain is poorly understood in adolescents. The study aimed to determine the prevalence and two-year incidence, as well as the course, frequency, and intensity of pain in the neck, mid back, and low back (spinal pain). METHODS This study was a school-based prospective cohort study. All 5th and 6th grade students (11-13 years) at 14 schools in the Reg...

S ometimes when a child is sick or hurt, it is necessary for physicians to do a procedure. The purpose of some procedures is to get more medical information; examples include doing a blood draw using a needle or collecting urine through a plastic tube called a catheter that goes into your child’s urethra. The purpose of other procedures is for a treatment, such as putting in stitches for a cut ...

In this note we shaii prove that non primitive recursive functions have transcendental generating series. This resuit translates a certain measure of the complexity of a fonction, the fact of not being primitive recursive, into another measure of the complexity of the generating series associated to the function, the fact of being transcendental. Résumé. On démontre que les fonctions qui ne son...

A decade ago, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 24% of the global disease burden but was served by only 4% of the global health workforce. The chronic shortage of medical doctors has led other health professionals especially nurses to perform the role of healthcare providers. These health workers have been variously named clinical officers, health officers, physician assistants, nurse practition...