As states grapple with the forces of liberalization and globalization, they are increasingly pulling back on earlier levels of welfare provision and rhetoric. This article examines how the eclipsing role of the state in labor protection has affected state–labor relations. In particular, it analyzes collective action strategies among India’s growing mass of informally employed workers, who do no...

TOPIC: Obstructive Lung Diseases TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Bronchiectasis is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by bronchial dilatation leading to daily productive cough and recurrent infections.[1] Causes of bronchiectasis broadly divided into Cystic fibrosis (CF) non-CF. Reducing the microbial load with antibiotics clearing secretions form cornerstone ...

TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is an uncommon acute severe necrotizing infection of the renal parenchyma and its surrounding tissues that results in presence gas parenchyma, collecting system, or perinephric tissue. The clinical course EPN can be life threatening if not managed astutely. primary organisms respons...

TOPIC: Disorders of the Mediastinum TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Hiatal hernias are broadly divided into sliding and para-esophageal hernias. Sliding hernia is characterized by displacement gastroesophageal junction above diaphragm.Mechanical problems caused include respiratory complications like atelectasis, micro-aspirations & failure resulting from compression lu...

TOPIC: Cardiovascular Disease TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Azithromycin (AZ) is extensively used, with millions of prescriptions written yearly. In 2013 US food and drug administration issued a warning against the pro-arrhythmogenic activity this in presence pre-existing cardiac conditions, known QT prolongation or QT-prolonging use electrolyte abnormalities.(1) A r...

Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) of the kidney and ureter is a rare neoplasm with roughly 3000 cases diagnosed in the United States in 2007, compared to approximately 67000 cases of bladder cancer. UTUC accounts for approximately 10% of cancers arising from the kidney and less than 5% of all urothelial malignancies. Predominantly due to the rarity of the disease, there is only limited da...

This is a pedagogical account on reaction-diffusion systems and their relationship with integrable quantum spin chains. Reaction-diffusion systems are paradigmatic examples of non-equilibrium systems. Their long-time behaviour is strongly influenced through fluctuation effects in low dimensions which renders the habitual mean-field cinetic equations inapplicable. Starting from the master equati...

prospective comparative analysis of outcomes between open and laparoscopic radical prostatectomy conducted in 2003 to 2005. J. Urol. 2008; 179: 1811–17. 18 Kundu SD, Roehl KA, Eggener SE, Antenor JA, Han M, Catalona WJ. Potency, continence and complications in 3,477 consecutive radical retropubic prostatectomies. J. Urol. 2004; 172 (6 Pt 1): 2227–31. 19 Stanford JL, Feng Z, Hamilton AS et al. U...

I am pleased to report on the status of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) at end of my third year as Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Exciting news about TDSC is that its 2015 impact factor has increased with respect to the previous year and it is now 1.592. The impact factor metrics are based on the 2015 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Report. TDSC experienced a highl...

Febrile seizures (FS) are the most common convulsive event in children. This condition has been described since the time of Hippocrates. The etiology of the febrile seizures are still unclear. In FS, there is a strong familial predisposition. This does not exclude infections as a causative factor because subtle genetic polymorphisms have been demonstrated to affect the course of infections. In ...