and will appeal to the lay public: but it also contains much wisdom for the general practitioner and for the psychiatrist. He sets out to survey the whole field of psychiatry, so that great clinical detail is obviously impossible: nevertheless there is ample compensation for the lack of this in the lucidity of Dr. Culpin's style and his refreshing commonsense approach. An interesting and welcom...

no epididymis or vas having postulated to occur if the division separates from only a small part of the genital ridge that is not in contact with the rete testis. In Type II, the supernumerary testicle has its own epididymis, but shares common vas deference with the lower testis. This occurs when there is complete transverse division through the genital ridge and the mesonephros. Depending on t...

UNLABELLED Collating the findings regarding the role of focal interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) on CNS functions raises the possibility that IEDs might have negative impact that outlasts the duration of the spike-and-wave complexes. The aim of this study was the electrophysiological demonstration of the "delayed effect" of the IEDs. 19-channel, linked-ears referenced, digital waking EEG...

semen from six adult male black bengal goats (capra hircus) was collected to compare the fresh and frozen-thawed semen quality and investigate its relationship with the fertility. each collected samples was divided into two parts: one part of semen was used as fresh and another part was filled into 0.50 ml straws, sealed, cooled (5 ˚c) and equilibrated for freezing.in both cases, semen was dilu...

one of the major causes of spontaneous abortion before the fourth month of pregnancy is chromosomal abnormalities. we report an unusual case of a familial balanced chromosomal translocation in a consanguineous couple who experienced 4 spontaneous abortions. chromosomal studies were performed on the basis of g-banding technique at high resolution and revealed 46, xx, t (16 6) (p12 q26) and 46, x...

The quality of life can be improved and risk of fractures would be effectively reduced, by the proper initial diagnosis of the osteoporotic abnormality. The identification of low bone mineral density (BMD) or the onset of osteoporosis can be performed by means of detecting the extracted trabecular features from digital hip radiographs. The objective of our study was to apply a gradient based im...

Children with abnormal liver function can often be seen in outpatient clinics or inpatients wards. Most of them have respiratory disease, or gastroenteritis by virus infection, accompanying fever. Occasionally, hepatitis by the viruses causing systemic infection may occur, and screening tests are required. In patients with jaundice, the tests for differential diagnosis and appropriate treatment...

A novel steganographic scheme is proposed which avoids asymmetry inherent in conventional LSB embedding techniques so that abnormality in the image histogram is kept minimum. The proposed technique is capable of resisting the χ test and RS analysis, as well as a new steganalytic method named GPC analysis as introduced in this paper. In the described steganographic technique, a pair of mutually ...

Depression as a kind of mental illness affects huge number of population worldwide and is ranked as the fourth leading cause of disability worldwide, and is predicted to increase to the second place by 2020. Depression leads to great social burden because of its substantial impairment and disability in everyday activities. Though great efforts in previous decades have been made to understand th...

How can we make sense of observed instrumental actions that are on a first glance bizarre, i.e., different from what “I myself would have done”? In an attempt to answer this question, the paper sets forth a two-staged reasoning procedure for teleological action explanation: goal assignment, and backward planning. Closed-world assumptions about abnormalities frame reasoning to a manageable forma...