Disease Interception: Myths, Mountains, and Mole Hills

Mole Hills from Mountains

Asiatic Cholera: Mole Hills and Mountains

The disease cholera has persisted in Asia since time immemorial. Almost all the pandemic phases of cholera had its origin from the Indian subcontinent. Historically, waves of cholera have wiped many million lives in this region mainly due to the general insanitary conditions and poor management of the disease. All the three cholera causing vibrios namely classical, El Tor, and the O139 have eme...

Seeing mountains in mole hills: geographical-slant perception.

When observers face directly toward the incline of a hill, their awareness of the slant of the hill is greatly overestimated, but motoric estimates are much more accurate. The present study examined whether similar results would be found when observers were allowed to view the side of a hill. Observers viewed the cross-sections of hills in real (Experiment 1) and virtual (Experiment 2) environm...

Creating Mountains out of Mole Hills: Automatic Identification of Hills and Ranges Using Morphometric Analysis

Celiac Disease: Myths and Facts

Celiac disease is a genetically inherited autoimmune disorder triggered by dietary gluten that damages the intestinal villi in the proximal small intestine. Once tall and slender, the damaged villi become blunted or completely flattened. As a result, the available absorptive area is reduced considerably, which causes malabsorption. This condition affects both children and adults. In young child...