The mortality and morbidity of cerebral abscess has greatly decreased since the widespread usage of antibiotics. Victims of cerebral abscess are often predisposed to many risk factors such as otitis, mastoiditis, sinusitis, immunodeficiency, blood infection and congenital defects. But cerebral abscess secondary to mild scalp infection is scarcely reported. We would like to report on a case of c...

The Umpqua and Millicoma dace are small cyprinid fishes endemic, respectively, to the Umpqua and Coos rivers on the central coast of Oregon. The origins and relationships of these dace are unclear; however, two hypotheses have been postulated that assume these dace had evolved from a longnose dace (Rhinichthys cataractae (Valenciennes, 1842)) like ancestor, but from different modes of origin. T...

Twenty years—a long time—so what happens after 20 years? Well if you live in New Zealand, according to [1], if you are adopted you can apply to Births, Deaths and Marriages for a copy of your birth certificate to find the names of your birth parents, you can apply to adopt a child who is related to you and you can gamble or work in a casino [1], but more seriously, our 20th anniversary is an ap...

Guofa Liu,1 Weiquan Li,3 Xue Gao,1,2 Xiaoling Li,1 Claudia Jürgensen,1 Hwan-Tae Park,4 Nah-Young Shin,5 Jian Yu,1 Ming-Liang He,6 Steven K. Hanks,5 Jane Y. Wu,1,2 Kun-Liang Guan,3 and Yi Rao1 1Department of Neurology, 2Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, 3Life Sciences Institute, ...

A 79-year-old woman was admitted with worsening chest discomfort and diagnosed as having an acute myocardial infarction. She underwent emergency coronary angioplasty via the transradial artery, but during surgery the proximal portion of the radial artery was perforated by a wire injury. The TOMETA KUN compression system (Zeon Medical, Tokyo, Japan) was used for hemostasis at the perforation sit...

BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia reportedly have a high prevalence of obesity. One of the reasons is a poor choice of diet. The goal of this study was to clarify characteristics of the dietary intake across the strata of the body mass index (BMI) and to compare the general population and patients with schizophrenia in Japan. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study of 51 patients with sc...

News Getting health care to vulnerable communities More research is needed into why vulnerable communities fail to access public health-care services even when these are available. This lack of access proved to be tragic for Mumbai slum-dweller Savita Das and her family. faced a decision no woman should have to make. Savita's 10-month-old daughter had fallen into the dirty floodwaters and urgen...

The paper proposed a method of weather classification based on cloud model and hierarchical clustering. Firstly, according to the weather sampling data from FY-2C images, cluster the brightness values of five wave bands by hierarchical clustering approach based on cloud model, and generate the centres and the parameters of clusters of image features in different rainy weather types. Secondly, t...