plastic bronchitis (pb) refers to the presence of inspissated bronchial casts (bc) is uncommon in children.our case presented with subcutaneous emphysema as the dominant manifestation and was suspected to have foreign body in airway, but bronchoscopy revealed a bronchial cast. subcutaneous emphysema as the initial/sole manifestation of plastic bronchitis is very rare in children.

Determinism precludes moral responsibility, some think, because causally determined agents cannot make a difference in the world. Let’s say that I raise my arm at a certain time. If determinism is true, there is nothing I could have done that would have resulted in a different state of affairs, that is, in my not raising my arm at that time. For my raising my arm was bound to happen, given the ...

In this paper, we present a comprehensive design methodology for constructing small-scale UAV helicopters. The systematic design procedure, which includes hardware component selection, design and integration, as well as experimental evaluation, is utilized to construct a fully functional UAV helicopter, named SheLion. Various ground and flight tests have been performed to verify the feasibility...

The organizers of the fifth international conference on Open Repositories list nine polar dichotomies that represent “The Grand Integration Challenge” for the repository community/movement. In this paper we take up the challenge. We do so in the context of a program of work being undertaken at our institution to build infrastructure for the academy in general, working towards a modular 'Academi...

A rare clinical case of native aortic valve infective endocarditis (IE) caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae in a 56-year old man without known risk factors predisposing to the development IE is presented. Diagnosis this patient was challenge due lack recent interventions that could be considered as source bacteremia, scarce manifestation and absence typical complications. Aortic vegetation detected...

The local-civilizational approach, shared by the author of article, assumes existence various “cultural-historical types” (In words his pioneer N.Ya. Danilevsky), which have different “logics culture” and types “collective cognitive unconscious” (according to A.V. Smirnov). These qualitative differences formed under influence special climatic geographical conditions (habitat), as well historica...