Recurrent esophageal stenosis following caustic injury may be difficult to treat. A tube stent developed at our institution [1] can be used as an alternative to repetitive endoscopic esophageal stricture dilation. The case of a boy with severe larynx and esophageal caustic injury at the age of 2 years is reported here. Endoscopy (●" Fig.1a) and radiography (●" Fig.2a) performed 3 weeks after th...

Article history: Received 10 June 2011 Accepted 2 March 2012 Available online 12 April 2012 Submitted by V. Mehrmann AMS classification: 93A30 15A22

Article history: Received 28 June 2012 Revised 2 December 2012 Accepted 10 January 2013 Available online 31 January 2013 Communicated by Gary McGuire

BACKGROUND Previous studies have yielded conflicting results about the association between incretin therapies and acute pancreatitis. We aimed to compare the occurrence of acute pancreatitis in a population of patients with type 2 diabetes who received incretins compared with those who received other antidiabetic treatment. METHODS In our population-based matched case-control study, we extrac...

Yaroslav V. Kartashov,1,2 Vladimir V. Konotop,3 and Lluis Torner1 1ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain 2Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow Region 142190, Russia 3Centro de Fı́sica Teórica e Computacional and Departamento de Fı́sica, Faculdade de Ci...

C. Creatore,1 R. T. Brierley,1 R. T. Phillips,1 P. B. Littlewood,1,2,3 and P. R. Eastham4 1Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom 2Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne Chicago, Illinois 60439, USA 3James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 4School of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland (Received 5 April 2012; re...

Hechang Lei ( ),1 Emil S. Bozin,1 A. Llobet,2 V. Ivanovski,3 V. Koteski,3 J. Belosevic-Cavor,3 B. Cekic,3 and C. Petrovic1 1Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Uptown, New York 11973, USA 2Lujan Neutron Scattering Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS H805, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA 3Institute of Nuclear Sciences Vinca, Univers...

E. C. Simpson,1 P. Navrátil,2 R. Roth,3 and J. A. Tostevin1,4 1Department of Physics, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom 2TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2A3, Canada 3Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany 4National Superconducting Cyclotron Laborato...

F. Sebastian Bergeret,1,2,* Alvise Verso,2 and Anatoly F. Volkov2,3 1Centro de Fı́sica de Materiales (CFM-MPC), Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, Manuel de Lardizabal 4, E-20018 San Sebastián, Spain 2Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Manuel de Lardizabal 5, E-20018 San Sebastián, Spain 3Theoretische Physik III, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany (Received 15 June 2012; revised...

Wissam A. Saidi,1,* Minyoung Lee,2 Liang Li,3 Guangwen Zhou,3 and Alan J. H. McGaughey2,† 1Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York, Bi...