Background and Aims: The insertion of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) and ventriculoatrial (VA) shunts is the first-line treatment of patients with hydrocephalus and normal-pressure hydrocephalus. The provision of a safety profile for shunting in the treatment of hydrocephalus patients is very important. This study aimed to determine the success rates and complications of VP and VA shunting in patien...

Artery Arising from the Internal Carotid Artery I read with interest the article by Chan et al. They stated that there was a rare congenital anastomosis between the vertebral artery (VA) and internal carotid artery (ICA) with an absence of communication between the common carotid and cervical ICA. I, however, diagnose that there was an acquired occlusion of the ICA at its origin with a developm...

Multiple publications have reported the incidence of military sexual trauma (MST) among women veterans to be as high as 40%. MST has caused mental health problems and physical illness in this group. Other publications have stated that servicewomen have experienced unintended pregnancies as a result of MST and that sexual assault is a significant risk factor for abnormal cervical cytology. These...

Thalamic relay nuclei transmit basal ganglia output to the frontal cortex, forming the last link in corticobasal ganglia circuitry. The thalamus regulates cortical activity through differential laminar connections, providing not only feedback, but also initiating "feedforward" loops, via nonreciprocal projections, that influence higher cortical areas. This study examines the organization of tha...

The degree profile of an edge e of a finite hypergraph H is the map assigning to a positive integer i the number of vertices of degree i incident with e. The edge degree profile of H is the map describing for any possible degree profile ~ the number of edges in H with degree profile ~. A necessary and sufficient condition for existence of hypergraphs of prescribed edge degree profile is found. ...

Objectives The Gulf War Registry monitors related health conditions of veterans returning from the Persian Gulf Region. Enrollment consists of two phases: Phase I-veterans meet with their local VA Environmental Health Coordinator and complete the self-reported Gulf War Phase I Worksheet (VA Form 10-9009A). Phase II involves a physical exam, medical history review, and laboratory test analysis c...

Eukaryotic cellular mRNA is believed to be synthesized exclusively by RNA polymerase II (pol II), whereas pol I produces long rRNAs and pol III produces 5S rRNA, tRNA, and other small RNAs. To determine whether this functional differentiation is obligatory, we examined the translational potential of an artificial pol III transcript. The coding region of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 t...

In a pandemic situation every social system suffers, and weak institutions become shattered. Like many other institutions, religious ones have also suffered in last couple of years COVID-19 pandemic. A rural Bangladeshi unit, Nawdabash Madrasa Orphanage, the madrasa having 120 students orphanage sheltering 84 orphans. It was already impoverished pre period suffering struggling to fulfill its ba...