the development of ascites in hyperthyroid patients is a rare phenomenon and usually occurs in the context of exaggeration of right-sided heart failure , so it is categorized as high saag ascites. in this case report, we present a 73-year-old man who was referred to us with anorexia, severe weight loss, anemia, lower limbs pitting edema, and also exudative, low saag ascites. extensive work up r...

A quantitative procedure for analyzing and comparing distortion in mental maps is presented. Using a microcomputer and digitizer, and by developing a distortion index, comparisons are made by direct analysis of mental maps. A case study of the mental maps of lsrael of high school and university students showed a tendency to generalize shape to simple geometric forms, with foreshortening of nort...

A 50-year-old female who was a known case of chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL) developed ecchymoses, purpuric spots with papules, some nodules (1-3 mm) and crusts all over the body associated with severe burning and itching along with exaggeration of CLL. The lesions were more prominent on lower limbs and face. Skin biopsy was reported as leukocytoclastic vasculitis. These lesions regressed after...

[I]t is no exaggeration to say that the modification of outward appearance by visual characteristics, directed towards a seeing public, and serving either to facilitate recognition or to frustrate it, has been one of the main results attained in the evolution of higher animals; and such characteristics comprise some of the most outstanding examples of adaptation in the whole field of biology. (...

This paper addresses the problem of synthesising animations from video clips; in particular emphasising the motion of tracked objects. We introduce “dynamic cues” as a class of motion emphasis cue, encompassing traditional animation techniques such as anticipation and exaggeration. We present methods for automatically synthesising such cues within video premised upon the recovery of articulated...

Suggestion.?By L. Tuckky. Demy 8voPages xiv and 413. Price 21 jnet. London, 1921: Bail,ue;re, Tindaij, and Cox. This book has reached the Seventh Edition and so has obviously been very popular. .The reason for its popularity will be apparent to all who read the volume. It contains numerous accounts of interesting cases in which treatment by suggestion has been of service. These are given ' with...

seven per cent had definite electrocardiographic abnormalities. All had one and usually several vectorcardiographic abnormalities. Abnormalities in orientation, magnitude, or both, of the planar and spatial ventricular gradients were the most consistent of the vectorcardiographic abnormalities and were observed in 95% of the patients. This finding is of significance if this vector theoretically...