Introduction: Percutaneous internal ring suturing (PIRS) method is an effective minimally invasive laparoscopic that was preferred for indirect hernia repair in children. Purpose: The aim of this study to report the evaluation surgical results our PIRS series modified with finer needle and suture diagnosis inguinal hernia, communicating hydrocele incarcerated hernia. Methods: This a retrospecti...

In his resignation statement, printed last Tuesday night, in a pamphlet issued by Ken Carpenter and him, Hancock said that he was resigning, "primarily because of poor grades, but at least partly because I don't feel I can fulfill the goal that 'Vitis' must follow to be worth the time spent on it: the goal of a total examination and questioning of given conditions and structures of the college ...

Sixty-five TAC (transformation-competent artificial chromosomes) clones were selected from a genomic library of Lotus japonicus accession MG-20 based on the sequence information of expressed sequences tags (ESTs), cDNA and gene information, and their nucleotide sequences were determined. The average insert size of the TAC clone was approximately 100 kb, and the total length of the sequenced reg...

At the 3rd Annual Ruminant Nutrition Symposium (Hammond, 1992), I reviewed the use of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) concentration for monitoring protein status in beef cattle, and discussed the potential for using milk urea nitrogen (MUN) as a noninvasive tool for monitoring protein status in dairy cattle. The purpose of this discussion is to review the basic concepts involved in urea nitrogen as a...

Background: Mental distress among medical students is often reported. Burnout has not been studied frequently and studies using interviewer-rated diagnoses as outcomes are rarely employed. The objective of this prospective study of medical students was to examine clinically significant psychiatric morbidity and burnout at 3rd year of medical school, considering personality and study conditions ...

CMV matrices are the unitary analog of Jacobi matrices; we review their general theory. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC: 05E35; 47A68; 15A52

Editorial on the occasion of J‑AIM completing five years of successful and timely publication. At the outset on behalf of the editorial board, I wish to thank all the active members of the Editorial Board members and reviewers without whom this journey would have been impossible. We owe thanks to Medknow, now part of Wolters Kluwer for their professional support. Many developments have happened...

T H E A N N U A L Convention of the Aero Medical Association this year is centered about the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association. By coincidence it is also the fifth anniversary of the Space Medicine Association. In the atmosphere of appropriately recognizing these temporal landmarks it is well to recount certain highlights in this brief history. The fifth birthday of a youngster is mar...