The incidence of the craniofacial cleft is rare ranging between 1.43 and 4.85/100,000 births. Tessier number nine cleft being the rarest, there are a few reports of detailed ophthalmologic examinations performed in them. In this study, 1-day-old female neonate delivered by normal vaginal delivery at term, weighing 1480 g presented with right eye dystopia, cleft extending through the lateral thi...

Background Craniofacial clefts are congenital anomalies which pose a management challenge to cleft surgeons, especially in developing countries. The aim of this study is to share our experience regarding the management of these atypical facial clefts. Patients and Methods This prospective study was carried out from May 2009 to May 2014 at Federal Medical Centre, Nguru, Nigeria. Diagnosis was ...

Model-structure identification is important for the optimization and design of biokinetic processes. Standard Monod and Tessier functions are often used by default to describe bacterial growth with respect to a substrate, leading to significant optimization errors in case of inappropriate representation. This paper introduces shape-constrained spline (SCS) functions, which share the qualitative...

O Refúgio Biológico de Santa Helena (RBSH) é uma unidade conservação banhada pelo reservatório Itaipu, no oeste do Paraná, Brasil. Apesar ser área protegida, seu entorno passível contaminação por diversas fontes antropogênicas, principalmente ligadas a agropecuária. Objetivo principal desse estudo foi determinar os teores e biodisponibilidade dos íons metálicos (Cr, Cu, Pb, Zn, Fe Cd) nos sedim...

Neuronal growth cones navigate over long distances along specific pathways to find their correct targets. The mechanisms and molecules that direct this pathfinding are the topics of this review. Growth cones appear to be guided by at least four different mechanisms: contact attraction, chemoattraction, contact repulsion, and chemorepulsion. Evidence is accumulating that these mechanisms act sim...

Abstract In this study, the purification effect of red mud–loess mixture (RM–L) as a reactive medium in permeable barrier (PRB) for groundwater contaminated by acidic wastewater (AW) containing Mn(II) was explored considering removal capacity and pH value, safety on RM–L after evaluated. The breakthrough parameters were determined purifying performances toward AW evaluated fixed-bed column test...