The local Minkowski tensors are valuations on the space of convex bodies in Euclidean space with values in a space of tensor measures. They generalize at the same time the intrinsic volumes, the curvature measures and the isometry covariant Minkowski tensors that were introduced by McMullen and characterized by Alesker. In analogy to the characterization theorems of Hadwiger and Alesker, we giv...

OBJECTIVES To review alternative surgical and anaesthetic options in the management of foreign bodies lodged in the tracheobronchial tree in children aged below 10 years. DESIGN A five year retrospective secondary data analysis. SETTING Three hospitals based in Eldoret Municipality, Kenya. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Outcome variables included morbidity and mortality. RESULTS Of the thirty tw...

Osteochondral loose bodies are uncommon in the temporomandibular joint but occur relatively frequently in the large joints such as the knee, elbow and hip.’ They may be associated with synovial osteochondromatosis or may occur secondary to osteoarthritis, intracapsular fractures, osteochondritis dissecans, rheumatoid arthritis, syphilis or tuberculosis.2,3,4 A survey of literature reveals aroun...

We have experimentally investigated the interactions between floating magnetic spheres which are submitted to a vertical magnetic field, ensuring a tunable repulsion, while capillary forces induce attraction. We emphasize the complex arrangements of floating bodies. The equilibrium distance between particles exhibits hysteresis when the applied magnetic field is modified. Irreversible processes...

In the olfactory system of vertebrates, a large number of primary sensory neurons terminate in glomeruli in the olfactory bulb, where they make synapses with a significantly smaller number of secondary neurons. We applied small amounts of a lipophilic neural tracer (Dil) in the glomerular regions of the lateral olfactory bulb in crucian carp, and investigated the centrifugal migration of this s...

This report describes a uterine serous carcinoma with bilateral ovarian metastasis, which was associated with widespread extensive psammomatous calcification of the uterine leiomyomata, the myometrium, and the cervical stroma. These psammoma bodies were not associated with tumour or epithelial elements. This psammomatous calcification is rare, with no previous reports of similar cases. The pres...

Bg ARTHUR F. GOLDBERG AND HELEN WENDLER DEANE T HIS STUDY was made to characterize intracellular crystals found in unusual lympho-plasmocytoid cells, which have been described elsewhere’ and for convenience will be termed crystal cells. For comparison, an examination was made of the related inclusions in plasmocytes ( Russell bodies ) , and also of primary, secondary, and senile cardiac amyloid...

This report describes a uterine serous carcinoma with bilateral ovarian metastasis, which was associated with widespread extensive psammomatous calcification of the uterine leiomyomata, the myometrium, and the cervical stroma. These psammoma bodies were not associated with tumour or epithelial elements. This psammomatous calcification is rare, with no previous reports of similar cases. The pres...

The support measures of a convex body are a common generalization of the curvature measures and the area measures. With respect to the Hausdorff metric on the space of convex bodies, they are weakly continuous. We provide a quantitative improvement of this result, by establishing a Hölder estimate for the support measures in terms of the bounded Lipschitz metric, which metrizes the weak converg...

Apoptosis is a genetically regulated cell suicide programme mediated by activation of the effector caspases 3, 6 and 7. If apoptotic cells are not scavenged, they progress to a lytic and inflammatory phase called secondary necrosis. The mechanism by which this occurs is unknown. Here we show that caspase-3 cleaves the GSDMD-related protein DFNA5 after Asp270 to generate a necrotic DFNA5-N fragm...