Tuberculosis is said to be on the increase in India. The remarkable progress motor traffic has made during the last two decades has greatly facilitated intermingling of the rural and urban populations. There is no doubt that tuberculosis is rife in the congested areas and slums of Indian towns but very little information is available about its incidence in the villages. With perhaps one excepti...

Seeding of splenic tissue to extra-abdominal sites is a relatively infrequent consequence of open abdominal trauma. Immunological function of these small foci of ectopic splenic tissue is unknown and their use in determining the splenic function may be limited. In this case report, a patient is described who had previously undergone an emergency splenectomy. The absence of Howell-Jolly bodies o...

Nuclear stress granules are subnuclear compartments that form in response to heat shock and other stress stimuli. Although many components of nuclear stress granules have been identified, including HSF1 and pre-mRNA processing factors, their function remains a mystery. A paper in this issue describes the stress-induced transcriptional activation of one of the nuclear stress granule target sites...

An understanding of the survival probability and abundance endangered species is critical for their effective conservation management. In this study, long-term capture-mark-recapture data were used to estimate apparent green turtles Chelonia mydas at Kuroshima Island in Yaeyama Islands, Japan. A total 453 captured from 2009 2020 using entangling nets. All juveniles subadults; no adult during st...

OBJECTIVE To study the functional and morphological features of splenic autoimplants in rats subjected, or not, to postoperative hyperbaric oxygen therapy. METHODS One hundred and five male Wistar rats, weighing 251.6 g ± 29.5 g, were studied ot early (11th day) and late (70th day ) postoperative periods. For each period the animals were distributed in the following groups: A (n=40), splenic ...

BACKGROUND Results concerning the association between Body Mass Index (BMI) and depression in adolescence are conflicting, some describing a linear association (increase in BMI with level of depression), some a U-shaped association (both underweight and obesity are associated with high levels of depression), and they mostly concern small samples. The purpose of this study was to describe the as...

This paper presents a numerical investigation of the unsteady flow around an American 19 century vertical-axis windmill: the Stevens & Jolly rotor, patented on April 16, 1895. The computational approach used is based on solving the complete transient Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (t-RANS) equations: a full campaign of numerical simulation has been performed using the k-ω SST turbulence model....