UNLABELLED We report a rare case of a cardiac hydatid cyst that was incidentally found during routine work up for a redo-CABG and was picked up on echocardiography and confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging and, after successful removal, further confirmed by histopathology. The report emphasizes the importance of early and urgent surgery for such cardiac hydatid cysts whenever discovered to pr...

In this paper, we establish a lower bound on the number of inducing simple n-gons in grid-like arrangements of lines. We also show that the complexity associated with counting the number of inducing n-gons in an arrangement of collinear segments is #P-complete.

We investigate the power of non-deterministic circuits over restricted sets of base gates. We note that the power of non-deterministic circuits exhibit a dichotomy, in the following sense: For weak enough bases, non-deterministic circuits are no more powerful than deterministic circuits, and for the remaining bases, non-deterministic circuits are super polynomial more efficient than determinist...

In this paper we consider three restricted variants of P systems with active membranes: (1) P systems using out communication rules only, (2) P systems using elementary membrane division and dissolution rules only, and (3) polarizationless P systems using dissolution and restricted evolution rules only. We show that every problem in P can be solved with uniform families of any of these variants...

South Africa has a heavy burden of tuberculosis (TB); an incidence of 526 cases per 100 000 of the population makes it one of the highest in the world. Along with other severely affected countries in eastern and southern Africa, there is a significant degree of coinfection with HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). In the World Health Organisation (WHO) African Region, 31% of adults aged 15...

a $p$-group $g$ is $p$-central if $g^{p}le z(g)$‎, ‎and $g$ is‎ ‎$p^{2}$-abelian if $(xy)^{p^{2}}=x^{p^{2}}y^{p^{2}}$ for all $x,yin‎ ‎g$‎. ‎we prove that for $g$ a finite $p^{2}$-abelian $p$-central‎ ‎$p$-group‎, ‎excluding certain cases‎, ‎the order of $g$ divides the‎ ‎order of $text{aut}(g)$‎.