Self-inflicted Ocular Traumatisms among Russian Conscripts

Self-inflicted serious injuries among adolescents in Zambia.

Injuries are a growing cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. Data from Southern Africa are limited, possibly because of limited research prioritization of the issue and pre-occupation with communicable diseases. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of, and assess factors associated with, self-inflicted serious injuries among in-school adolescents in Zambia. We used data ...

Self-inflicted ulcerations.

Dear Editors, Self-inflicted ulceration, as part of dermatitis artefacta, is a rare condition often diagnosed by exclusion as clinical, histological and laboratory findings do not comply with any known disease (1). Patients with such skin lesions also suffer from psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, dementia, personality disorders and so on (1). As far as treatment is concerned, best res...

Managing self-inflicted nondeterminism

When a computation is replicated for greater availability – either by simultaneous execution on multiple machines or by restarting it after a crash – the problem of keeping replicas consistent arises. Replicas lose consistency when their run-time states diverge. This can happen because of differences in hardware inputs (clock ticks, network packets, keystrokes, etc.), which in turn lead to diff...

Self-inflicted eye injuries.

Five cases of self-inflicted eye injury are described and discussed. A review of the literature shows that several psychiatric diagnoses have been assigned to people who damage their eyes. A variety of mechanisms to explain this phenomenon are described.

Treating Nato's Self-inflicted Wound