Bell’s palsy is a relatively common disease characterized by the sudden onset of unilateral facial paralysis. Using a centralized system that contains demographic data, the authors estimated rates, trends, and demographic risk of Bell’s palsy during a 2-year period. There were 140 incident cases of Bell’s palsy among patients referring to private clinics (a total of 6500 patients). The crude in...

Researchers and scientific organizations are becoming aware of the greenhouse-gas emissions and waste associated with attending scientific conferences. Fledgling efforts are now underway to address this problem by offering carbon offsets, recycling at conferences, reducing conference travel, or replacing meetings with teleconferences.

F or some infectious diseases specialists, the equivalent of the summer blockbuster was the release of the 'Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections' (SSTI) update on June 18, 2014, by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) (1). It is timely because summer is when patients consult the most for SSTI. In the present note, we review the mos...

Analysis of the fifteen years of European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis suggests that the transition from dry to wet season in Southern Amazonia is initially driven by increases of surface latent heat flux. These fluxes rapidly reduce Convective Inhibition Energy (CINE) and increase Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE), consequently providing favourable co...

A total of 65 multiparous cows that calved during the hot season (n = 21), temperate season (n = 23) or cold season (n = 21) were used to investigate the relationships between heat stress, seasonal changes, metabolic traits, body condition score (BCS), resumption of ovulation and occurrence of subclinical endometritis (SE). Cows were monitored for the first 7 weeks of lactation by ultrasonograp...

Cool-season (northern) and warm-season (southern) grasses are grown in Arkansas. Cool-season grasses grow best in the spring and fall and less actively in the summer. They stay reasonably green in the winter. Tall fescue (Festuca arundi­ nacea) is the most commonly grown cool-season grass in Arkansas. Warmseason grasses are slow to green up in the spring, grow best in the summer and go dormant ...

Differences in nutrient content between different grass hay varieties are much smaller than differences between legumes and grasses (Table 1). Cool-season grasses (grown in temperate climates) include timothy, orchardgrass, fescue and annual ryegrass. Warm-season grasses (adapted to tropical and subtropical regions, like Florida) include Coastal bermudagrass, Tifton-85 bermudagrass, and bahiagr...

background:accident is the secondary cause of mortality in iran, background of its occurrence and mortality are not wholly understood. the aim of this paper is to explain seasonal occurrence and mortality pattern of traffic accidents in isfahan population, iranmethods: this study is a cross-sectional analytic study. we extracted data on traffic accidents for isfahan province from the ministry o...

background: vitamin a which is found in different tissuesand organs plays a particular role in detecting clinical signs invarious deficiency conditions. however, sometimes the marginaldeficiency is present in a way that clinical signs are not visible butperformance defects, such as infertility is seen. objectives: inthis study, the normal baseline levels of vitamin aand β-carotene inclinically ...