OBJECTIVES Recent qualitative research found young men reporting that an expectation that eating disorders (EDs) mainly affect young women led them, and others, to only recognise their symptoms when their ED had become entrenched. This raises questions about how these stereotypes persist. We therefore explored how EDs in males were represented in articles published in UK newspapers over a 10-ye...

The same sherd was analyzed using a scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) and a micro X-ray fluorescence tube attached to a scanning electron microscope (Micro-XRF-SEM) to compare the effectiveness of elemental detection of iron-based pigment. To enhance SEM-EDS mapping, the sherd was carbon coated. The carbon coating was not required to produce Micro-XRF-SE...

BACKGROUND TMS is being increasingly used as a noninvasive brain stimulation technique for the therapeutic management of partial epilepsies. However, the acute effects of TMS on epileptiform discharges (EDs, i.e. interictal epileptiform activity and subclinical electrographic seizure patterns) remain unexplored. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether TMS can modulate EDs in partial epilepsy. METH...

PURPOSE To investigate the methods used at private community hospitals for delivering emergency department (ED) image interpretation services. MATERIALS AND METHODS The authors contacted a random national sample of 114 hospitals by telephone and administered an "ED Radiology Coverage" questionnaire. The questionnaire included queries about daytime image interpretation duties, nighttime radiol...

EDS (Energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry) is a technique used for elemental analysis of a sample, through detection of characteristic X-rays generated from a sample impacted by an electron beam. STEM (Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy) is a method to obtain high spatial resolution images with Z-contrast [1]. STEM-in-SEM has recently become a technique of choice for high spatial resolut...

Ectodermal dysplasias (EDs) form a large, heterogeneous and increasing nosologic group. Every year, new syndromes are described and labelled as EDs. A few years ago, with the intention of reducing the chaotic aspect that the field was gaining, we proposed a clinical definition and a clinical-mnemonic classification of EDs (Freire-Maia 1971). Since that time, two other reviews were published (Se...

AIMS To study the clinical value of the colour-M-mode slope of the early diastolic left ventricular filling phase (Vp) and the early diastolic downward M-mode slope of the left atrioventricular plane displacement (EDS), compared with diastolic function assessed by traditional Doppler evaluation. METHODS AND RESULTS In 65 consecutive patients EDS and Vp were compared with a four-degree traditi...