Abstract Peridotite–magma interaction is important in establishing magma pathways through the mantle and metasomatism of lithospheric mantle. Reactions that consume orthopyroxene produce olivine clinopyroxene are particular interest because these reactions should lead to a redistribution trace elements between solid melt phases at equilibrium. This study examines silica-undersaturated alkaline ...

The impact and prevalence of antimicrobial drug resistance in rural community healthcare settings is uncertain. Prospective surveillance in 51 rural hospitals in Idaho and Utah examined the epidemiologic features of clinical cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). Thirty-two cases of VRE were reported; for 6, the patient had no pri...

A supernumerary ovary is an exceedingly rare disorder, in which the structure containing ovarian tissue is located at some distance from the normally placed ovary. 16 cases of endometriosis or tumors originating in a supernumerary ovary have been published in the English literature, but no case of coexisting endometriosis and a tumor has been published. We present the case of a 40-year-old fema...

OBJECTIVE We compared mental health service utilization among older, depressed Veterans (60 years or older) with and without coexisting dementia. METHODS This retrospective study examined data from the 2010 Veterans Health Administration National Patient Care Database outpatient treatment files of Veterans with a newly recognized diagnosis of depression (N = 177,710). RESULTS Approximately ...

The vast majority of children presenting for surgery on the eye are healthy. However, there are a number of ophthalmologic conditions that are often accompanied by coexisting morbidities.The majority of infants presenting for cataract surgery in the newborn period do not have coexisting diseases, but a variety of pediatric syndromes include cataracts in the constellation of derangements. Some e...

Multistability, a commonly observed feature among nonlinear systems, could be inconvenient under various circumstances. We demonstrate that a control in the form of slow and weak periodic parameter modulation can be effectively applied to transform a complex multistable system to a controlled monostable one. For the representative of a nonlinear system, we choose the Hénon map as the standard m...

The predominant features of Harlequin syndrome are unilateral facial flushing and sweating. Harlequin syndrome has been reported in different clinical conditions including brain stem infarction, superior mediastinal neurinoma, and internal jugular vein catheterization.1,2 Idiopathic and iatrogenic cases have been reported. The clinical features of Horner syndrome are ptosis, miosis, enophthalmo...

V-Al-C-N hard coatings with high carbon content were deposited by reactive radio-frequency magnetron sputtering using an experimental combinatorial approach, deposition from a segmented sputter target. The composition-dependent coexisting phases within the coating were analysed using the complementary methods of X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray absorption n...