introduction: deep sternal wound infection is a rare but serious complication after cardiac surgery that can increase mortality and morbidity. the aim of this study was to investigate the incidence and causative germs of deep sternal wound infection following cardiac surgery.   methods: data were collected retrospectively from patients who underwent different cardiac surgeries including coronar...

The tooth is an ectodermal organ that arises from a tooth germ under the regulation of reciprocal epithelial-mesenchymal interactions. Tooth morphogenesis occurs in the tooth-forming field as a result of reaction-diffusion waves of specific gene expression patterns. Here, we developed a novel mechanical ligation method for splitting tooth germs to artificially regulate the molecules that contro...

Part I. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. Statements, history and outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Transitivity properties of Thompson’s groups . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Part II. Generalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3. Germs, half germs, germ functions and ge...

Introduction Good health is as a result of combination of many factors, one of these factors is hand hygiene. The hands are probably the most used body organ. A day barely passes without holding multiple objects with our hands; we greet people, hold money, eat and clean our houses with our hands. It is therefore apparent that our Hands are at a higher exposure to germs than any other part of ou...

The lacrimal gland has a multifaceted role in maintaining a homeostatic microenvironment for a healthy ocular surface via tear secretion. Dry-eye disease, which is caused by lacrimal gland dysfunction, is one of the most prevalent eye diseases that cause corneal epithelial damage and results in significant loss of vision and a reduction in the quality of life. Here we demonstrate orthotopic tra...

In this paper, we introduce GERMS, a dataset designed to accelerate progress on active object recognition in the context of human robot interaction. GERMS consists of a collection of videos taken from the point of view of a humanoid robot that receives objects from humans and actively examines them. GERMS provides methods to simulate, evaluate, and compare active object recognition approaches t...

Harmonic morphism is a smooth map between Riemannian manifolds which pulls back germs of harmonic functions to germs of harmonic functions. It may be charactrized as harmonic maps which are horizontally weakly conformal [5,9]. One task of studying harmonic morphism is constructing concrete examples; Another one is classification of all harmonic morphisms between all special manifolds (in partic...

We show that two families of germs of real-analytic subsets in Cn are formally equivalent if and only if they are equivalent of any finite order. We further apply the same technique to obtain analogous statements for equivalences of real-analytic self-maps and vector fields under conjugations. On the other hand, we provide an example of two sets of germs of smooth curves that are equivalent of ...

A small water disinfection system based on the combination of a strong single 25 mW LED with a wavelength of 285 nm and a short quartz tube with an outer rectangular cross section is presented. For the disinfection tests clear tap water and slightly turbid and yellow pond water are contaminated with high concentrations of Escherichia coli bacteria. These water samples are exposed to the germici...