Allergic contact dermatitis is very common and may be complicated by secondary infections. Chronic lymphoedema is a potentially debilitating condition, which may occur due to secondary infections or the dermatitis itself. The problem of chronic lymphoedema following allergic contact dermatitis has been infrequently reported. We report a case of a 47-year-old woman with severe allergic contact d...

Informed parental consent reminds the health professional to respect parent autonomy with respect to their infant's health care. It involves at least four elements: information, assessment of understanding, assessment of capacity, and freedom to choose. Critical issues are training of staff, timing of approach, and quality and presentation of information. In the newborn period, additional probl...

the use of information technology within the context of their educational goals. Instead, campus leaders are reacting to technology rather than understanding that they can affect its design and application for higher education. Information technology, Katz reminds us, is not a given, but rather a socially constructed phenomenon. A strong supporter of the use of technology in teaching and schola...

We present a case of a healthy 43-year-old man who experienced right lower abdominal mass with gastrointestinal upset for 6 months. A series of imaging studies revealed a large lobulated cyst in the right pelvis and retroperitoneum. Because of the persistent symptom, surgical intervention was performed to remove the cystic lesion. The final pathology report demonstrated a large seminal vesicle ...

as the diagnostic sign of life. This is what Mr. Tashiro has demonstrated. "That mechanism," he says, "which enables living matter to respond to the external world . . . may be called the most characteristic thing in life. The chemical accompaniment, or basis, of this mechanism, discovered by the author in nerve fibers, he has hoped to show exists in all forms of living matter, both of plants a...

comMotion is a location-aware computing environment which links personal information to locations in its user’s life; for example, comMotion reminds one of her shopping list when she nears a grocery store. Using satellite-based GPS position sensing, comMotion gradually learns about the locations in its user’s daily life based on travel patterns. The full set of comMotion functionality, includin...

Systemic hypertension is uncommon in children. It is usually secondary to underlying diseases. Here, we present an 11-year-old boy suffering from critical renal artery stenosis with unusual initial presentation of status epilepticus and hypertensive cerebellar encephalopathy. Angiography revealed bilateral renal arteries fibromuscular dysplasia. The encephalopathy improved dramatically after re...

Spatial pattern is crucial to geoscience. It enables us to compare the observed properties of objects and explain their spatial relationships, correlation and distribution in terms of the geological circumstances and processes that formed them. Digital cartography and the spatial model provide computer support for looking at objects and properties in their spatial context. Transformations enabl...

was marked, and gave the impression of a large vessel. In the three boys' cases?aged respectively six, ten and eleven years? nasal obstruction, with enlarged tonsils and adenoids, existed. In one of the boys the pulsation was bilateral and very marked, communicating a heaving impulse to the left tonsil, which was hypertrophied. Connal reminds us that most observers have ascribed the pulsation t...

Low frequency dielectric measurements on plexiglass (PMMA) show that cooling and heating the sample at constant rate give an hysteretic dependence on temperature of the dielectric constant ǫ. A temporary stop of cooling produces a downward relaxation of ǫ. Two main features are observed i) when cooling is resumed ǫ goes back to the values obtained without the cooling stop (Chaos, i.e. the low t...