We describe our experience with blowgun dart aspiration via an illustrative case series and review the resources available to teach children how to construct these objects. A 15-year-old boy presented with cough, wheeze, and eventually admitted to aspiration of a homemade blowgun dart. This instance heightened the awareness of our experience with blowgun dart aspiration as 3 cases presented wit...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore gender and ethnic differences in needs for help among patients with cancer. RESEARCH APPROACH Qualitative. SETTING Internet and community settings. PARTICIPANTS 16 self-identified patients with cancer aged at least 18 years who could read and write English. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Using six discussion topics on needs for help, an online forum was administered...

the mathematical properties of nano molecules are an interesting branch of nanoscience forresearches nowadays. the periodic open single wall tubulene is one of the nano moleculeswhich is built up from two caps and a distancing nanotube/neck. we discuss how toautomatically construct the graph of this molecule and plot the graph by spring layoutalgorithm in graphviz and netwrokx packages. the sim...

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many of us to transform our approach teaching and learning. Instead standing in front a class the lecture hall or sitting around table interactively debating with students, we, as teachers, have found ourselves staring at students (or just their names) through such platforms Zoom Teams overcoming instances hesitance silence by, well, talking more. Sooner later s...

b E-mail: [email protected], Tel +27 21 808 4250 (corresponding author)Researchers in reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) have generally used the agent-based control (ABC). Due to industry’s hesitance to adopt ABC, this paper evaluates the reconfigurability of a control system developed with industry accepted technologies, i.e. IEC 61131-3 programming languages, a Beckhoff embedded PC and B...

INTRODUCTION Patients' non-attendance is a significant problem in modern healthcare. Non-attendance delays treatment, reduces efficiency and increases healthcare costs. For several years, the introduction of financial incentives such as a non-attendance fee has been discussed in Denmark. Set in the context of a tax-financed, free-for-all healthcare system, the political hesitance to introduce f...

Older adults are not only lagging behind in terms of physical access to the Internet but also in engaging in political activities in the online environment. The findings from two independent studies bridging the USA and China suggest that older adults, even when they have access to the Internet, have ambivalent or negative attitudes toward political activities online. As political participation...