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Introduction: Polyorchidism is a rare medical condition, which is presence of more than two testes within the scrotum. Triorchidism is the more common form and the diagnosis is made with ultrasonography. One of the common anomalies associated with polyorchidism is testicular torsion. Case Report: We report a case with four testes and testicular torsion in one testis. Conclusion: Testicular tors...

Increasing scholarly attention is being paid to women and judging. The literature now covers a wide field, only some of which can be referred to here: analysis of judicial appointments; the structure, practices and culture of the legal profession (Schultz and Shaw 2003; Resnik 1996); judicial decisions (including both the decisions themselves and their impact, or not, on women, see, e.g. Schnei...

Dữ liệu đếm thường xuất hiện trong nhiều lĩnh vực thực tế như y tế, kinh dịch tễ học... Để xử lý loại dữ liện này, mô hình hồi quy đã phát triển Poisson, Nhị thức hay tổng quát hơn là hóa (GLMs). Khi chứa số không, các giãn nở không (ZI) ra đời. Tuy nhiên nếu cần kiểm duyệt thì trên còn phù hợp. Vì vậy, Saffar i and Adnan (2001) đề cập đến này bằng nghiên cứu phỏng đơn giản. nhiên, tác giả chưa...

The ‘Abb®sid caliphs al-Ma’m‚n and al-Mu‘ta◊im, who between them reigned from 198 to 227 A.H. (813-842 A.D.) are best-known to historians of philosophy for two things. First, they supported a massive translation project that had already begun in the previous century with al-Ma’m‚n’s grandfather, al-Man◊‚r. The result was that many of the most important works of Greek philosophy and science were...

The Frege-Russell view is that existence is a second-order property rather than a property of individuals. One of the most compelling arguments for this view is based on the premise that there is an especially close connection between existence and number. The most promising version of this argument is by C.J.F. Williams (1981, 1992). In what follows, I argue that this argument fails. I then de...

Surface samples have been collected from Kerala coast, Valapatanam-Azhikode deposit of northern Kerala coast. The average heavy minerals percentage shows 30.32 %. The heavy mineral assemblage of samples from area showed an appreciable percentage of opaque followed by sillimanite and zircon. The chemical analysis carried out for the present investigation, is detailed as Ferrian ilmenite. X-ray d...

A recent physiological finding of neural coding for border ownership (BO) that defines the direction of a figure with respect to the border has provided a possible basis for figure-ground segregation. To explore the underlying neural mechanisms of BO, we investigated stimulus configurations that activate BO circuitry through psychophysical investigation of the BO-dependent tilt aftereffect (BO-...

The time is generally a challenging task. All issues in relation to time can be better supported using temporal data models. Almost all enterprise database systems have implemented temporal data, partly according to the model specified in the SQL:2011 standard and partly according to other, older temporal models. In this article five temporal concepts will be used to investigate their implement...

We introduce a mixed-initiative approach for document reconstruction that can significantly reduce the amount of time and effort required to reassemble a document from shredded pieces or an artifact from broken fragments. We focus in particular on the hardest subproblem, which is the problem of identifying a matching neighbor for any given piece. Our approach, called hallucination, combines hum...