BACKGROUND Establishing day-case surgery as the preferred hospital admission route for all eligible patients requires adequate preoperative assessment of patients in order to quickly distinguish those who will require minimum assessment and are suitable for day-case admission from those who will require more extensive management and will need to be admitted as inpatients. METHODS As part of a...

PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty operated patients of myelodysplasia were clinically evaluated for the age at presentation, the extent of lesion and neurological deficit. Urological assessment was done with urine cultures, serum creatinine, radiological (ultrasound of kidney, ureters and bladder, voiding cystourethrogram) and urodynamic (water cystometry) parameters. An objective scoring for bladder...

Nitrogen (N) is an essential constituent of both proteins and nucleic acids, crucial components of all living things. Humans depend on agricultural systems to provide most of their daily protein, prompting Liebig (1840) to note that agriculture’s principal objective is the production of digestible N. Today’s intensive agriculture is built on a foundation of N augmentation via the use of synthet...

BACKGROUND Surveys suggest most people would prefer to die in their own home. AIM To examine predictors of place of death over an 11-year period between 2000 and 2010 in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS 19,697 Dumfries and Galloway residents who died in the region or elsewhere in Scotland. We explored the relation between ...

Indigenous scholar Richard van Camp of the Dogrib Nation shares how “a great story reminds us what it means to be human” (van in Galloway, 2020). Keith Devlin’s book, Finding Fibonacci: The Quest Rediscover Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed World, does just that – reminding human, but this case through mathematics. In Fibonacci, Devlin his and journey learn more about mathematician Leon...

El COVID-19 creo una crisis en el mundo, afectando a las instituciones educativas, optando por diferentes métodos para continuar con proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje involucrando uso la tecnología (Chiu, 2022). No obstante, investigación sobre integración ha sido abordada anterioridad (Brill & Galloway, 2007; King Boyatt, 2015; Marulanda et al., 2014); y esta revisión se siguió procedimient...