Double J stent was inserted through ureteroscope. On the 3rd postoperative day, the patient showed signs and symptoms of obstipation, vomiting, abdominal tenderness and rebound tenderness, and high fever. Plain abdominal x-ray at supine and upright position revealed air fluid level and no evidence of gas pattern in the pelvis (rectum) and sentinel loop in the left upper quadrant (Figure 2). Che...

Information entropy (H) is a measure of uncertainty at each position within in a sequence of nucleotides. H was used to characterize a set of influenza A segment 7 nucleotide sequences. Nucleotide locations of high entropy were identified near the 5’ start of all of the sequences and the sequences were assigned to subsets according to synonymous nucleotide variants at those positions: either ur...

Plastic pollution poses a significant environmental threat to the existence and health of biodiversity marine ecosystem. The intrusion plastic food chain is massive concern for human health. Urbanisation, population growth, tourism have been identified as major contributors growing rate debris, particularly in waterbodies such rivers, lakes, seas, oceans. Over past decade, many studies focused ...

Satellite image data deliver consistent and frequent information for crop yield estimation over large areas. Hyperspectral narrowbands are more sensitive spectrally to changes in growth than multispectral broadbands but few studies quantified the gains former later. The PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa (PRISMA) mission offers narrow (≤10 nm) band capability across full optica...

Information on vegetation height can be used in a variety of applications, but the high cost to obtain it large areas using field sampling and latest remote sensing technologies is still barrier for low-income countries organizations. In an attempt overcome these limitations, we explored possibility estimate fragments Atlantic Forest (São Paulo - Brazil) based Sentinel 2 imagery, LiDAR (Light D...

Earth's deciduous plants have a sharp order-of-magnitude increase in leaf reflectance between approximately 700 and 750 nm wavelength. This strong reflectance of Earth's vegetation suggests that surface biosignatures with sharp spectral features might be detectable in the spectrum of scattered light from a spatially unresolved extrasolar terrestrial planet. We assess the potential of Earth's st...

The ability of texture models and red-edge to facilitate the detection of subtle structural vegetation traits could aid in discriminating and mapping grass quantity, a challenge that has been longstanding in the management of grasslands in southern Africa. Subsequently, this work sought to explore the robustness of integrating texture metrics and red-edge in predicting the above-ground biomass ...

Sentinel lymph nodes are mapped using (99m)Technetium, injected on day of surgery (1-day protocol) or day before (2-day protocol). This retrospective cohort study compares efficacy between the two protocols. Histopathology for all unilateral sentinel lymph node biopsies (March 2012-March 2013) in a single centre were reviewed. Number of sentinel lymph nodes, non-sentinel lymph nodes and patholo...

The coffee plant is one of the main crops grown in Brazil. However, strategies to estimate its yield are questionable given characteristics this crop; context, robust techniques, such as those based on machine learning, may be an alternative. Thus, aim present study was a crop using multispectral images and learning algorithms. Yield data from same area 2017, 2018 2019, Sentinel 2 images, Rando...