A full-term newborn male baby was brought with abnormal genitalia. The baby was a product of non-consanguinous marriage and the antenatal checkups and sonography were unremarkable. The boy had passed urine and meconium before arrival. Baby was warm, pink and active. There was no abnormal facies. Limbs and spine were normal. Local examination (Fig. 1) revealed a normal phallus with meatus at the...

Sponges on the Belize Barrier Reef were drastically diminished in 2 mortality events during a 6-year period. Patterns in mortality and recovery were revealed by detailed records of assemblage dynamics, in the form of 8 full censuses between June 2006 and July 2012. All sponges on a set of shallow patch reefs were mapped, identified, and measured for volume at yearly or more frequent intervals, ...

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We propose the discretization of real-valued nancial time series into few ordinal values and use non-linear likelihood modeling for sparse Markov chains within the framework of generalized linear models for categorical time series. We analyze daily return and volume data and estimate the probability structure of the process of extreme lower, extreme upper and the complementary usual events. Kno...

Three dimensional images were obtained using a single high numerical aperture hologram recorded in a high resolution photoresist with a table top lambda = 46.9 nm laser. Gabor holograms were numerically reconstructed over a range of image planes by sweeping the propagation distance in the numerical reconstruction algorithm, allowing numerical optical sectioning. A robust three dimension image o...

Extreme wind loads used in design (e.g., the 50-yr wind load) and include nominal design wind loads ultimate wind loads. This paper briefly reviews the relationship between extreme wind loads and extreme wind speeds, assessments of epochal versus ‘peak-overthreshold’ approaches for estimating extreme non-tornadic winds in areas not subjected to tropical storms, and methods for estimating extrem...