Aspiration of a foreign body into the tracheobronchial tree is rare in adults. In the majority of these cases there is an underlying condition such as mental retardation, depressed mental status, impairment in the swallowing reflex, neurological impairment, alcohol or sedative abuse, or complications from dental manipulations that contributed to the aspiration. These patients are commonly misdi...

Body image distress or body dissatisfaction is one of the most common consequences of obesity and overweight. We investigated the neural bases of body image processing in overweight and average weight young women to understand whether brain regions that were previously found to be involved in processing self-reflective, perspective and affective components of body image would show different act...

With the increasing complexity of humanoid mechanisms and their desired capabilities, there is a pressing need for a generalized framework where a desired whole-body motion behavior can be easily specified and controlled. Our hypothesis is that human motion results from simultaneously performing multiple objectives in a hierarchical manner, and we have analogously developed a prioritized, multi...

Mushroom bodies are the iconic learning and memory centers of insects. No previously described crustacean possesses a mushroom body as defined by strict morphological criteria although crustacean centers called hemiellipsoid bodies, which serve functions in sensory integration, have been viewed as evolutionarily convergent with mushroom bodies. Here, using key identifiers to characterize neural...

In this work, a method previously proposed in the literature (Sisto R, Pinto I, Stacchini N et al. Infrared radiation exposure in traditional glass factories. AIHAJ 2000; 61: 5-10) to evaluate the exposure to infrared (IR) radiation when the source can be approximated as a black body is implemented in a mathematical code developed in Matlab. Some practical situations are discussed. A comparison...

Recently, interest in generating dynamically consistent motion of human-like characters has been increasing in various areas. In computer graphics, due to an increase in the demand for realistic three-dimensional animation, many researchers have developed techniques to generate consistent human motion easily. In robotics, in order to operate a humanoid robot, it is necessary to generate motions...

Introduction: Foreign body ingestion is common among children and more common in boys and in children under the age of 3. It can present with a wide variety of symptoms like dysphagia and drooling or symptoms related to the upper aerodigestive tract.   Case Report: A 20-month-old male presented with refractory croup and poor feeding since 2 weeks. Bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy was performed du...

SARS-CoV-2 is a novel strain of the coronaviruses posing great challenges to the human immune system. Hence, human innate immunity determines how our body responses to the early infection (1-3). According to the studies, coronavirus can cause a range of symptoms by affecting various organs in the body (4, 5). Currently, our hospital is one of the referral centers of COVID-19 in Iran. We would l...

The prolamellar body (PLB) appears in the etioplasts of dark-grown higher plants (3, 16, 18, 21). I t has a well-defined structure consisting of a central core built of an array of interconnected tubules, from which peripheral tubular elements extend into the plastid matrix. The tubular elements of the central core can be arranged in a crystalline (3, 7) or random pattern (19). The peripheral e...

Few issues in psychology are as fundamental or as elusive as the sense of one’s own body. Despite widespread recognition of the link between body and self, psychology has only recently developed methods for the scientific study of bodily awareness. Experimental manipulations of embodiment in healthy volunteers have allowed for important advances in knowledge. Synchronous multisensory inputs fro...