BACKGROUND Head and neck region have many vital structures, and facial firearm injuries (FFIs) more likely lead to life-threatening situations than other body injuies. These injuries have high potential of airway compromise associated with significant morbidity and mortality. METHODS We describe an 11-year-old boy who had received tracheostomy after a FFI complicated with pneumothorax and sub...

Adopting a language other than the first as medium of instruction in teaching mathematics can create significant problems for students’ mathematical learning. However, there is little research on ways which bi/multilingual teachers make use diverse multilingual and multimodal resources to keep students engaged learning abstract knowledge. This article aims explore how an English-medium-instruct...

The Foreign Function Interface (FFI) in Larceny supports interacting with dynamically loaded C libraries via glue code written in Scheme. The programmer does not need to develop any C code to interface with C libraries. The FFI is divided into layers of Larceny Scheme code; the lower layers implement kernel functionality, and the higher layers support portable glue code development. The lower l...

In spring 1997, a feed enzyme factory with the staff of 12, Finnfeeds International Ltd. (FFI) introduced a new production method developed during the case study discussed in this paper For a small high-tech company it is most important to prepare for market changes. With a share of 60 percents of the world markets, FFI wanted to ensure the customer satisfaction in the future too. The vigorous ...

1. Inhibition of creatine kinase is known to suppress cardiac contractile reserve in intact hearts, although the underlying mechanism has not been elucidated. 2. The present study was designed to examine whether cardiac depression induced by creatine kinase inhibition was due to action at the level of the essential contractile element, namely cardiomyocytes. Adult rat cardiomyocytes were perfus...

BACKGROUND Identification of famous landmarks (FLI), famous faces (FFI) and recognition of facial emotions (FER) is affected early in the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD). FFI, FER and FLI may represent domain specific tasks relying on activation of distinct regions of the medial temporal lobe, which are affected successively during the course of AD. However, the data on FFI and FER in MCI ar...

OBJECTIVE While recent evidence suggests that foot pain may be related to mechanical stress, quantitative data elucidating the role of regional plantar loading in foot pain in individuals with midfoot osteoarthritis (OA) are lacking. Therefore the authors' objective is to examine regional plantar loading and self-reported foot pain in patients with midfoot OA compared to asymptomatic, matched c...

ABSTRACT We present an update on the variable star survey performed TESS 30 min Full Frame Image (FFI) data reported by our first two papers in this series. This includes a contamination analysis order to identify false positives and of 10 FFI collected during Years 3 4 mission. clarify variability status 2 995 targets identifying 1 403 stars. In addition, we spectroscopically classify 24 pre-f...