background: respiratory virus infections in children are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. methods : a total of 897 clinical specimens were collected from february 2007 to january 2008 and transported to the na­tional influenza center. two hundred and two samples belonged to children under the age of six from 897 specimens, de­scribed above, were selected. then they were tes...

Hip fracture is a major health concern in elderly people. Thc standard line of management hip arthroplasty classified whether it intracapsular or extracapsular. Hemi the preferred surgery geriatric population as less mobility and large diameter femur head reduces chances dislocation. There are 4 surgical techniques for -arthroplasty: anterior (Smith-Peterson), anterolateral (Watson. lones), lat...

unilateral pulmonary artery agenesis (upaa) is a rare congenital anomaly during the 4 th  week of gestational age. it is defined as an absence of pulmonary parenchyma and its supporting artery. a 9-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital because of chronic cough. chest examination showed a decrement in lung sound of right hemi-thorax with expiratory wheeze. chest radiography (cxr) revealed a...

In the present paper, we establish some basic inequalities involving Ricci and scalar curvature of vertical horizontal distributions for hemi-slant submersions having total space a complex form. We also discuss equality case obtained provide illustrative examples.

In this study, contributions of left-right reciprocal coupling mediated by commissural interneurons in spinal locomotor networks to rhythmogenesis were examined in larval lamprey that had longitudinal midline lesions in the rostral spinal cord [8 --> 30% body length (BL), relative distance from the head] or caudal spinal cord (30 --> 50% BL). Motor activity was initiated from brain locomotor co...

Received 1/11/2007; revised 1/23/2007; accepted 1/24/2007. For correspondence or reprints contact: Shih-Jung Cheng, M.D., Department of Neurology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, 92 Section 2, Chun-San North Road, Taipei 104, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-25433535 ext. 2316, E-mail: [email protected] Background: There exists growing medical awareness regarding the syndrome bilateral basal ganglia lesions ...