‘Acopia’ is a pejorative term describing the older patient who is ‘unable to cope’. This study assessed the characteristics of patients presenting with ‘acopia’ to a district general hospital in the United Kingdom. Nearly half of ‘acopia’ patients presented with geriatric syndromes such as falls and confusion. Redefining ‘acopia’ as an all-encompassing term to describe the frail older patient w...

The article presents the structure of internal picture a defect in adolescents with different variants dysontogenesis (severe speech impairments, mental retardation, hearing impairment and visual impairment). A theoretical empirical study was carried out, on basis which features disabilities were revealed. description personality specifics is given depending defect. out 110 revealed that existi...

Solitary fibrous tumors of the pelvis are rare. We report the case of a 32-years-old patient who presented with abdominopelvic mass. The imaging studies showed a right adnexal mass of more than 10 cm. Exploratory laparotomy revealed a 20 cm mass at the Douglas pouch which was adhered to the posterior wall of the uterus. Complete resection of the mass was performed. Histological analysis showed ...

Osteosarcoma metastasis causing intussusception is a very rare entity, with a pejorative prognosis. Based on a case, we performed a literature review in order to better assess this situation. We conclude that, in patients with a history of osteosarcoma lung metastasis, echographic and/or computed tomography scan evidence of a small bowel obstruction with intussusception should lead to an open s...

Algae frequently get a bad press. Pond slime is a problem in garden pools, algal blooms can produce toxins that incapacitate or kill animals and humans and even the term seaweed is pejorative - a weed being a plant growing in what humans consider to be the wrong place. Positive aspects of algae are generally less newsworthy - they are the basis of marine food webs, supporting fisheries and char...

OBJECTIVES Relationship between hepatic lipase (LIPC) polymorphism and coronary artery disease (CAD) has often led to contradictory results. We studied this relation by genotyping rs1800588 in the LIPC promoter in a case-control study on CAD (the GENES study). We also investigated the relationship between this polymorphism and the ankle-brachial index (ABI), which is predictive of atheroscleros...

Vaccine scares and liability folklore In the recent “controversy” over allegations that vaccines cause autism, one of the criticisms that is been directed against the idea is simply that it is an “urban legend”. I share this opinion, but think it should be more than just a pejorative, Rather, by opening the issue up to the field of folklore, it will be possible to get a better grasp on the orig...

The pejorative manifold was defined by Kahan in 1972. While multiple roots of a polynomial are naturally ill conditioned, we have that: if we know the multiplicities of the roots, then the roots are well conditioned. Consider a polynomial p with k distinct roots zi, the ith root has multiplicity mi, for i = 1, 2, . . . , k. The degree n of p is then the sum of multiplicities: n = m1 +m2 + · · ·...

This paper explores politics and political participation from the voices perspectives of migrant slum dwellers in Agbogbloshie, most populous Accra. Using in-depth interviews, found that residents’ conception is couched a pejorative sense as they view “dirty deceitful game.” While migrants see contested elections which elites struggle for power, participate mainly by voting periodic elections. ...