Bitcoin, the latest Internet phenomenon branded as a game-changer. It is a revolution in financial system and money creation mechanics which currently holds the market of almost 13 billion USD. At the same time, its inner working is presented as hard to understand but perfectly trustworthy and safe. This trust is what gives Bitcoin value, however due to its mystical creator and recent headlines...

Boredom remains a poorly understood phenomenon despite its evident association with dysfunctional behavior and mental health problems. However, little research has been devoted to the topic, and the bulk of studies have almost exclusively been quantitative in design. For this reason, a qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study was carried out, during which ten participants were asked for...

An intense inflammatory reaction in the pericardium, heart, and intrapericardial aorta can regularly be produced in a sensitized rabbit by the intrapericardial injection of the homologous antigen.

A young man aged 19 yrs had developed symptoms of facial paralysis on the left side 3 months before admission to the Government Ophthalmic Hospital, and had been treated at another hospital, with some improvement. A month after the onset of this facial palsy he developed pain in the abdomen, for which he attended the Government General Hospital, and during the examination the attending medical ...

Recurrent melanocytic nevus is a proliferation of melanocytes arising from a melanocytic nevus removed partially. Asymmetry and irregular pigmentation may lead to misdiagnosis of melanoma. We report a patient presented with a lesion on the lower abdomen, which was removed by shave excision. Anatomopathological examination revealed an intradermal melanocytic nevus. Two months later, a new irregu...

One of the problems that sometimes occur in gas allocation optimization is instability phenomenon. This phenomenon reduces the oil production and damages downhole and surface facilities. Different works have studied the stability and suggested some solutions to override it, but most of them (such as making the well intelligent) are very expensive and thus they are not applicable to many cases. ...

This paper provides an overview of surrogacy and the potential complexities involved in commissioning a surrogate baby. It reflects on the lead author’s previous surveys on this difficult topic that were conducted in 1997 and 2003. It offers an insight into the legal and ethical viewpoints on the matter that are held by various countries. Introduction: What is a Surrogate? Van Den Akker (2010) ...

We use high-resolution N-body simulations, combined with a halo occupation model of galaxy bias, to investigate voids in the galaxy distribution. Our goal is to address the “void phenomenon” of Peebles (2001), which presents the observed dearth of faint galaxies in voids as a challenge to the current cosmology. In our model, galaxy luminosity is determined only as a function of dark matter halo...

The on-off phenomenon is an almost invariable consequence of sustained levodopa treatment in patients with Parkinson's disease. Phases of immobility and incapacity associated with depression alternate with jubilant thaws. Both pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic factors are involved in its pathogenesis, but evidence is presented to indicate that the importance of levodopa handling has been unde...