Aim & Objectives: Prospective study to evaluate the mortality prediction in patients with perforation peritonitis using APACHE II, SAPS II, MODS, SOFA and MPI scoring systems. Material and Methods: One hundred patients of hollow viscus perforation peritonitis, from October 2012 – June 2014, were evaluated preoperatively using above mentioned scores and outcome noted in terms of mortality; there...

This work discusses bioinformatics and experimental approaches to explore the human proteome, a constellation of proteins expressed in different tissues and organs. As the human proteome is not a static entity, it seems necessary to estimate the number of different protein species (proteoforms) and measure the number of copies of the same protein in a specific tissue. Here, meta-analysis of neX...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a major cause of mortality. The aetiology of CAP has rarely been identified as a mortality risk factor. A prospective study was conducted to assess the prognostic factors of CAP patients admitted to the intensive care unit (Centre Hospitalier Departmental Felix Guyon, St Denis de la Reunion, France), with a special emphasis on microbial aetiology. All ...

Investigating neural stem cell (NSC) behaviour in vivo, which is a major area of research, requires NSC models to be developed. We carried out a multilevel characterisation of the zebrafish embryo peripheral midbrain layer (PML) and identified a unique vertebrate progenitor population. Located dorsally in the transparent embryo midbrain, these large slow-amplifying progenitors (SAPs) are access...

Candida albicans resides mainly as a harmless commensal in the gastrointestinal tract, vagina and some cutaneous areas of humans. However, in individuals who are immunocompromised or debilitated in some other way, C. albicans is responsible for superficialy-localized or systemic infections. Candida albicans produces a large family of secreted aspartyl proteinases (Saps) which are key virulence ...

Semantic segmentation of mechanical assembly images provides an effective way to monitor the process and improve product quality. Compared with other deep learning models, Transformer has advantages in modeling global context, it been widely applied various computer vision tasks including semantic segmentation. However, pays same granularity attention on all regions image, so some difficulty be...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) plays an integral role in maintaining law and order a country as violent Africa. Unfortunately, some members of SAPS have also contributed to this violence physically, such police brutality, well secretly, by way corrupt practices. corruption Africa is rife. officers involved large scale bribes, firearm trafficking other crimes are common. This has inevit...