Heavy Trichuris trichiura infestation is rare in developed countries, and complications requiring surgical intervention have been described rarely in human trichuriasis. A case of colonic obstruction and perforation related to heavy whip-worm infection is described in an 84 year old woman. The woman was admitted to hospital because of a chest infection. Two days after admission she suffered nau...

An operating system is observed to undergo failures. On failure, one of three actions was taken: failures were minimally repaired, given a minor repair or given a major repair. Furthermore, periodically the machine was stopped for either minor maintenance action or major maintenance action. Either on failure or maintenance stoppage, both minor and major repairs are assumed to impact the failure...

Introduction raised to 8.0. The results obtained are tabulated in Table I1 and indicate that the purity drop was 0.9 The first Part of this Paper deals with the reduction less than for the same period in the first experiment, of sucrose losses in the clarifier during hours of when the temperature was not lowered nor the pH stoppage. The second part describes experiments raised. carried out to p...

Vaso-occlusion, the stoppage of blood flow in sickle-cell disease, is a complex dynamical process spanning multiple time and length scales. Motivated by recent ex vivo microfluidic measurements of hemostasis using blood from sickle-cell patients, we develop a multiphase model that couples the kinetics and hydrodynamics of a flowing suspension of normal and sickled cells in a fluid. We use the m...

This research aims to describe the social responsibility of civil society organizations in achieving protection for irregular workers affected by spread COVID-19 pandemic across country. is defining role economic and health providing services workers, as well identifying obstacles that prevent them from benefiting organizations. The results concluded play a tangible economic, services, basic ne...

—Effects of 74 episodes of extreme weather on stoppage of population growth and resulting amplitudes of annual population fluctuation of 39 fluctuations of Microtus ochrogaster and 20 fluctuations of M. pennsylvanicus were studied over a 25 y period in eastcentral Illinois. Episodes of extreme weather may have stopped population growth of only six M. ochrogaster fluctuations and of two M. penns...

A 22 year-old lady with multi-drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis was on Kanamycin, Cycloserine, Ethionamide, Pyrazinamide and Moxifloxacin since more than two months. She presented with muscle cramps and carpopedal spasm. Investigation revealed hypokalemia and metabolic alkalosis. She also had hypomagnesemia, hypochloremia and hypocalciuria. Serum urea and creatinine levels were normal. Pati...

BACKGROUND A recent paper presents an argument and mechanism for the possible stopping of clinical trials early based on opportunity costs. DISCUSSION Although we agree that the costs and opportunity costs of clinical trials need to be reduced wherever possible, we raise concerns about the motivation and mechanism for stopping clinical trials early raised by Lavery et al. SUMMARY We argue t...

The year 2011 has thus far been dominated by the vigorous pursuit of interventions for patients with low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and proatherogenic lipid profiles. The major setback of the early stoppage of the Atherothrombosis Intervention in Metabolic Syndrome with Low HDL Cholesterol/ High Triglyceride and Impact on Global Health Outcomes (AIM-HIGH) trial by th...

This paper discusses the issue of statistical analysis of traffic flow in different regions of Poland. Such analysis allows us to identify “valuable (sensitive) areas” whose damage or blockage may provoke considerable disturbances or even stoppage of traffic flow in the examined road network. The results of the studies indicate that the road network in Poland has the properties of a scale-free ...