sik,?lviay i draw your attention to the letter from Captain R.Crawford Boyd on a case of Snake Bite in the December number. The letter first came to my notice in the Times of India, and fas it has been made thus public, I think any doubts should be cleared up. I believe that all authorities are agreed that the poison of the common Krait is, bulk for bulk, more virulent that any other Indian sna...

WANG Yang, LI Bin, CHEN Li, LIN Chen (1. Robotics Lab, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016; 2. Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China) Abstract: Research on snake-like robots expands the fields of application of robots. Based on CAN Bus technologies, we developed a control system for a snak...

Complete row and column symmetry breaking in constraint models using the lex leader method is generally prohibitively costly. Double lex, which is derived from lex leader, is commonly used in practice as an incomplete symmetrybreaking method for row and column symmetries. Double lex is based on a rowwise canonical variable ordering. However, this choice is arbitrary. We investigate other canoni...

This study was carried out to increase information about Ophionyssus natricis (Gervais, 1844) detected on the sea snake (Natrix tessellata). The mite individuals collected from the cage of a sea snake were brought to our laboratory by the owner of the snake. They werepreserved in 70% alcohol, and then the mites were mounted on slides in Canada balsam, after making them transparent in lacto phen...

Snake bite is a major occupational hazard for farm workers and a neglected health problem in India. It is essential to identify the aggressor species either by visual inspection or by symptoms of victim. So, a study was conducted to observe the poisonous effects of deadly venomous snakes are cobra, krait and russell�s viper and discusses the nature, constitution, clinical picture and the treatm...

Snake venom poisoning is a common medical emergency and the epidemiological features vary from region to region. We conducted a prospective study to review the epidemiology, treatment and outcome of snake venom poisoning in central Karnataka. Six hundred and thirty three cases of snake bite, seen in a teaching hospital, upto the age of 18 years, over a period of 8 years from 1985 to 1992 consti...

Snake bite is a significant health concern, especially in rural populations of tropical and subtropical countries. In India, snake bites take a heavy toll of human lives, and therefore warrant urgent attention. High mortality is due to poor health services in rural areas and delay in getting the victim to a well-equipped health care facility, where anti snake venom can be administered. However,...

This paper introduces an active contour or snakebased method for tracking cells within a video sequence. Specifically, we apply our cell tracking techniques to rolling leukocytes observed in vivo (in living animal) from video microscopy. The analysis of leukocyte motion reveals cues about the mechanism of inflammatory disease. To attack the problem of tracking leukocytes in vivo, the proposed s...

An extension of the gradient vector flow snake (GVF snake) is presented. The method is based on combining two other external forces. First, the adaptive balloon force has been developed to increase the GVF snake’s capture range and convergence speed. Then, a dynamic GVF force is introduced to provide an efficient evolution-stop mechanism. In this way, we prevent the snake from breaking through ...

Snake bite remains a common injury in endemic areas of Pakistan. A facility based observational study was undertaken to ascertain the incidence of snake bite, its mortality and the management in public health facilities located in the Thar Desert of Province of Sindh, Pakistan. A total of 771 cases of snake bite were reported to seven randomly selected health facilities during a one-year period...