Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) adaptation (a.k.a. repetition suppression) paradigm was used to test if semantic information contained in object-related (transitive) pantomimes and communicative (intransitive) gestures is represented differently in the occipito-temporal cortex. Participants watched 2.75 s back-to-back videos where the meaning of gesture was either repeated or chang...

INTRODUCTION Major liver resection in a Jehovah's Witness presents unique clinical challenges requiring multimodal blood minimization strategies to reduce perioperative complications. We report a case where complete left hepatic lobe devascularisation was undertaken to minimize bleeding in a Jehovah's Witness undergoing left hepatectomy. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 65-year-old male Jehovah's Witne...

The antenna is the basic part or the back bone of the wireless communication. It is mainly used as device to transmit and receive signal. To get better facility from this device it is necessary to modify or synthesize the geometric configuration or the other parameter of the device. This modification of the parameter of the antenna for getting our desired requirement is known as antenna synthes...

A 59 year old woman presented with chest tightness radiating to her back and shortness of breath. The ECG and cardiac enzymes were consistent with an acute apical inferior myocardial infarction. Her past medical history was significant for a 47 year history of four episodes of pneumonia with haemoptysis. She carried a diagnosis of a ‘‘lung scar’’. A previous CT scan of the thorax showed cystic ...

Behavioral abnormalities have been noted in specific epilepsy syndromes involving the frontal lobe. Epilepsies that involve the frontal lobe, such as frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE), atypical evolution of benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS), and epilepsy with continuous spike-waves during slow sleep (CSWS), are characterized by impairment of neuropsychological abilities, f...

A new spatial IIR beamformer based direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation method is proposed in this paper. We propose a retransmission feedback for an array of transmit and receive antennas that improves the performance parameters viz. half-power beamwidth (HPBW), side-lobe suppression, directivity. Through quantitative comparison we show our approach out-performs previous beamforming with sing...

in the last century, neural stem cells are used in a lot of studies for basic and therapeutic investigations. several sources are identified for neural stem cells including embryonic, fetal and adult stem cells. although most of studies have focused in embryonic as well as fetal cells due to their capacity to generate progenies, these cells have some problems such as immunological, availability...

background and objective: temporal lobe epilepsy is hallmarked with neuronal degeneration in some areas of hippocampus and mossy fiber sprouting in dentate area. considering some evidences on neuroprotective and antioxidant activity of silymarin (sm), this study was undertaken to evaluate the preventive effect of this agent on structural changes in hippocampus of kainate-epileptic rats. materia...

background morphometric data of the frontal lobe are important for surgical planning of lesions in the frontal lobe and its surroundings. magnetic resonance imaging (mri) techniques provide suitable data for this purpose. objectives in our study, the morphometric data of mid-sagittal mri of the frontal lobe in certain age and gender groups of children have been presented. patients and methods i...

congenital lobar emphysema is a rare cause of respiratory distress during infancy which is cured by surgery. we are reporting three cases of congenital lobar emphysema with different presentations of the disease. chest x-ray was the basis of diagnosis but confirmatory lung computerized tomography was also used. the emphysematous lobe was left upper lobe in two infants and right upper and middle...