Self mutilation of lips and tongue is considered a common type of Self-Injurious Behavior (SIB). Treatment of SIB in the form of Lip-Biting in developmentally disabled individuals has been the focus of several related reports using different oral appliances preventing or inhibiting the SIB. In this paper we report a case of SIB in the form of Lip-Biting on an infant with Chiari Type II Malforma...

Accurately estimating meteoroid flux helps analyze the risk of collisions while spacecraft move in interplanetary space. Currently, NASA uses the Meteoroid Engineering Model (MEM) to estimate meteoroid flux and the Bumper-ii code to evaluate damage to a spacecraft structure. To help the Bumper algorithm evaluate potential damage, we develop a rotation scheme that converts meteoroid flux informa...

A 63-year old man underwent an emergency esophagogastroduodenoscopy because of hematemesis. He had undergone surgery 2 months earlier for a pT4aN3 oropharyngeal carcinoma. This had been followed 4 weeks later by placement of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) because of severe oropharyngeal dysphagia. Endoscopy revealed a partially overgrown bumper (●" Fig.1a), which was freed from the...

A 64-year-old man with Parkinson’s diseasewas being treatedwith levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel formulation through a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy with jejunal extension (PEG-J) tube that had been placed in 2010. In April 2014, he complained of abdominal distension, pain, bloating, food intolerance, and a pulling sensation from the PEG-J tube. At the physical examination, we observed a...

INTRODUCTION Prices are a standard and important component of market and food security analysis because they serve as an indicator of both food availability and food access. Prices are a measure of availability because they tend to rise as the supply of food falls in relation to demand (e.g., poor production, constrained imports of food), and they tend to fall when supply expands in relation to...

This paper discusses an exploratory case study of the design of games that facilitate spontaneous social interaction and group behaviours among distributed individuals, based largely on symbolic presence ‘state’ changes. We present the principles guiding the design of our game environment: presence as a symbolic phenomenon, the importance of good visualization and the potential for spontaneous ...

In the present study fiber hybrid (bamboo and Musa acuminata stem fibers (MASF) were reinforced polyester composite, for enhancing mechanical properties. The natural composite has gained its importance due to low cost, substitute artificial fiber, price, able reduce sound, environmentally friendly, a density, good fit ability absorb impact energy. It’s possible use it as vehicle accessory such ...