Case A 4-year-old girl injured her left leg while tobogganing. She complained of immediate pain in her left knee and refused to bear weight through her left lower extremity. Her family brought her to the local emergency department where radiographs of the left knee were obtained; radiographic findings of the knee were normal (Figure 1). It was believed that the patient had a soft tissue injury ...

BACKGROUND Constitutive activation of STAT3 is one of the major oncogenic pathways involved in the development of various types of malignancies including colorectal cancer (CRC); and thus becomes a promising therapeutic target. Spica Prunellae has long been used as an important component in many traditional Chinese medicine formulas to clinically treat CRC. Previously, we found that Spica Prune...

Mid- and far-infrared (IR) photometric spectroscopic observations are fundamental to a full understanding of the dust-obscured Universe evolution both star formation black hole accretion in galaxies. In this work, using specifications SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology Astrophysics (SPICA) as baseline, we investigate capability study mid- far-IR photometry at 34 70 $\mu$m low-resolution spe...

The proposed wideband shorted planar inverted cone antenna (SPICA) has been described as a two element antenna array in this paper. The two element array by this antenna with proper phase of excitation and spacing between the elements provide superdirective array characteristic. This array gives peak endfire directivity from 3.502 dBi to 10.3 dBi and radiation efficiency above 98% in the operat...

SPICA, a Japanese led mission, is part of the JAXA future science program and is planned for launch in 2018. SPICA will perform imaging and spectroscopic observations in the 5 to 210 mm waveband. The SPICA payload features three instruments, one of which, SAFARI, is developed by a European based consortium. SPICA’s distinctive feature is to use an actively cooled telescope down to 4 K. In addit...