rhinosporidiosis is a granulomatous disorder caused by rhinosporidium seeberi, an aquatic parasite. it spreads through contaminated water and soil. it frequently involves the nasal cavity and nasopharynx. disseminated or systemic lesions are rare. a 56 year old man presented with multiple tumor like lesions all over the body in our cancer institute in april 2012. fine needle aspiration cytology...

angiosarcomas are endothelial cell neoplasms in the lining of the blood vessel wall and account for about 0.04% of all breast malignancies with a high rate of error in primary diagnosis. the breast angiosarcoma is a rare and uncommon pathology and has been described mostly as case reports. indeed, only a limited number of cases have been published. accordingly, the natural history of this tumor...

amblyomma lepidum (donitz, 1909), collected on sheep from gilan gharb, is reported for the first time from iran. the species has been reported from sudan, ethiopia, kenya, egypt and zanzibar as well. male diagnosis: a small to medium – sized tick; scutum with characteristic ornamentations; postero- median stripe broad at the base, slightly knobbed at the anterior extremity, not reaching the fal...

hymenolepis diminuta is a cestode frequently found in rodents and humans. species of flour moths of the genus pyralis and bee­tles in the genus tribolium are common intermediate hosts. humans can be accidentally infected through the ingestion of the insects, including larvae in precooked cereals, dried fruits or other food items, and directly by ingesting the insects from the environment. this ...

lhermitte - duclos disease also called dysplastic gangliocytoma of cerebellum is an extremely rare cerebellar lesion which share features of both malformation and neoplasm. the usual presentation is of raised intracranial pressure along with cerebellar signs. we report a case of 23 year male who presented with headache & diplopia. mri was suggestive of the diagnosis. subtotal excision of th...

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One of the frequently used assumptions in Speaker Veriication is that two speech segments (phonemes, subwords, words) are considered to be independent. And therefore, the log-likelihood of a test utterance is just the sum of the log-likelihoods of the speech segments in that utterance. This paper reports about cases in which this observation-independence assumption seems to be violated, namely ...

This paper reports a study on work characteristics and health in workers varying in ethnicity in Southern Italy and takes the Demands-Resources-IndividualEffects (DRIVE) model (Mark & Smith, 2008) and studies conducted on ethnicity and occupational health as the frame of reference. A questionnaire measuring work characteristics and subjective reports of health was submitted to workers from East...