Foreign bodies can gain entrance to the body through several mechanisms, ie, ingestion, aspiration, and purposeful insertion. For each of these common entry mechanisms, this article examines the epidemiology, clinical presentation, anatomic considerations, and key imaging characteristics associated with clinically relevant foreign bodies seen in the emergency department (ED) setting. We detail ...

It is well known that the combination of clock skew scheduling and delay insertion can achieve the lower bound of sequential timing optimization. Previous works focus on the minimization of required inserted delay. However, from the viewpoint of design closure, minimizing the number of inserted buffers is also very important. In this paper, we propose an MILP (mixed integer linear programming) ...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC Thoracic epidural catheterization is used widely for anesthesia and postoperative pain control in thoracic and abdominal surgery. Generally, an epidural catheter is inserted only 4–5 cm into the epidural space, as excessive catheter insertion causes complications like vascular injury and paresthesias [1]. Nevertheless, a catheter can often be ins...

A total of 9 samples wild cat Felischausfurax (de Winton, 1898) and 13 (11 positives) domestic Feliscattus (Linnaeus, 1758) belong to Family Felidae. All cats were trapped used hair skin scrapings by forceps surgical blades. The areas the collection were: Mosul province (north Iraq); Baghdad, Al-Rashidiya, Tharthar, Nahrawan, AL-Mahmoudiya (middle Iraq) AL-Haretha (south Iraq). current study re...

Background The human genome codes for 49 members of the large ABC protein family. Most of them are membrane transporters. The first structures of exporters have been solved in recent years. Although a remarkable achievement, some uncertainty remained with respect to the physiological conformation of the transporter, which seems not to be fully compatible with all biochemical evidence. During cr...

VEGF-B KO rats. VEGF-B gene-deleted rats of Sprague-Dawley background were generated using a zinc-finger nuclease based technique by Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering Labs, Sigma-Aldrich Biotechnology (St. Louis, Missouri, USA) (Cui et al, 2011; Geurts et al, 2009). A 22-base pair segment of exon 1 of the rat VEGF-B gene was replaced with a bacterial lacZ gene with a nuclear localization signa...