BACKGROUND Very few cases of small bowel obstruction due to ingested fruits have been described in literature, and most of these have managed by a laparotomy. Laparoscopic assisted surgery can effectively deal with such impacted foreign bodies, thereby avoiding a formal laparotomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 75 years old lady was admitted via the Accident and Emergency to the surgical ward with a th...

The technique we describe was developed for cervical foraminal stenosis for cases in which a keyhole foraminotomy would not be effective. Many cervical stenosis cases are so severe that keyhole foraminotomy is not successful. However, the technique outlined in this study provides adequate enlargement of an entire cervical foraminal diameter. This study reports on a novel foraminal expansion tec...

I wish to record very briefly a case of traumatic aneurism of the orbit, treated eventually by ligation of the common carotid, in which the treatment has been partly, but not wholly, successful. James Sparks, set. 10, was looking through a keyhole on the 23rd of May, when a boy at the other side of the door pushed a piece of umbrella-wire through the keyhole into his eye. The wire, probably, wa...

This paper generalizes the application bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding (BICM-ID) using signal space diversity (SSD) over keyhole Nakagamifading channels. The tight union bound on the asymptotic error performance is first analytically derived. The near-optimal rotation matrix with respect to both the asymptotic performance and the convergence behavior is then determined....

Tsx is a nucleoside-specific outer membrane (OM) transporter of Gram-negative bacteria. We present crystal structures of Escherichia coli Tsx in the absence and presence of nucleosides. These structures provide a mechanism for nucleoside transport across the bacterial OM. Tsx forms a monomeric, 12-stranded beta-barrel with a long and narrow channel spanning the outer membrane. The channel, whic...

We propose to establish “data-showcase” system to display the various geophysical data in one frame. Data-showcase is a system not to provide data but to show various types of the geophysical data in intuitable way. The newly developed Dagik, Daily geospace data in kml, is the first data-showcase system for the geospace data. It contains several types of data by ground-based and satellite measu...

Abstract Wediombo and its surrounding area is an isolated highland at the southern rim of Gunung Sewu sub-zone. This has contact between old volcanic rock with limestone that cave system underground-hydrological condition. study aims to determine morphological characteristics area. data was collected by observation mapping using BCRA 5C grade. Data analysis carried out passage morphometric morp...