Concerns Regarding Carotid Endarterectomy Guidelines To the Editor: We were surprised to read the rather unequivocal endorsement1 by the American Heart Association writing group of carotid endarterectomy (CE) for asymptomatic stenosis of greater than 60%. This position does not represent the viewpoint of all stroke neurologists or surgeons, and some professional groups have recently come to the...

Athena used to think that neonates are altogether a different species than Homo sapiens. For example, they are poikilothermic in contrast to homeothermic adult human beings. Inguinal hernia is yet another proof of this philosophical assertion. Herniotomy, a minor affair in grown-up children, is often a serious issue in newborn especially when they are premature. Neonatal inguinal hernia is also...

The comonotonic additivity axiom has been applied successfully in behavior under risk and uncertainty, and in an other-regarding setting it suggests that preferences over two allocations are independent of the payoffs of unaffected players as long as both allocations generate the same rank order of payoffs. If other-regarding preferences satisfy comonotonic additivity and violate standard addit...

This note presents an overview of some abstract concepts regarding covert channels. It discusses primary means of synchronization and illicit interference between subjects in a multilevel computing environment, and it describes a detailed laboratory exercise utilizing these abstractions.

It is quite amusing to note the mention of the ocular findings as ‘dilated and fixed pupils’, ‘dull, lusterless and opaque cornea’, ‘sunken eyes into the orbital fossa’. These findings are ought to have been there in all cadavers. Moreover, the time since death (postmortem interval) at autopsy isn’t categorically mentioned. It is emphasized in the ‘conclusion’ that the description of various po...

I n transfusing patients with red blood cells, physicians and surgeons aim to enhance the circulatory oxygen-carrying capacity that has been compromised due to blood loss or a hematological disorder. In general, bleeding and transfusion strongly correlate with adverse outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (1,2). Understandably, these negative reports have culm...

Wolmer-Solberg et al., reported that six human neuroblastoma cell lines and the vast majority of clinical neuroblastoma samples contained HCMV DNA and expressed HCMV proteins. We could not replicate the data and therefore remain skeptical towards the prevalence of HCMV DNA in neuroblastomas.

procedure is continued after sinus perforation and repair, numerous clinical studies have revealed high rates of sinusitis and implant failure 1,2. Third, the use of bone grafts should be limited in the sinus. The key to inducing new bone formation in the sinus is not bone substitution, but, rather, space maintenance in the new compartment. Bone grafts, as a foreign material, are susceptible to...

translator is also dealing with two different cultures at the same time. this particular aspect seems to have been taken into consideration by the second group of theorists who regard translation equivalence being essentially a transfer of the message from the sc to the tc and a pragmatic/ semantic or functionally oriented approach to translation . finally, there are other translation scholars ...