We report the case of a 14 year old healthy boy, who was admitted six weeks after being injured by a palm tree thorn, with limping caused by pain and swelling in his right knee. An ultrasound examination revealed a foreign body in the posterior lateral aspect of the right knee. Pantoea agglomerans was identified in the synovial fluid. The patient underwent two arthrotomies and was treated with ...

To compensate for image artifacts introduced in approximate cone-beam reconstruction, exact cone-beam reconstruction algorithms are being developed for medical x-ray CT. Although the exact cone-beam approach is theoretically error-free, it is subject to image artifacts due to the discrete nature of numerical implementation. We report a study on image artifacts associated with the Grangeat algor...

Walking barefoot is common in developing countries and the feet are therefore exposed to a variety of trivial injuries, some of which lead to cellulitis or abscess formation. If left untreated or improperly managed, osteomyelitis or septic arthritis, usually involving the heel or metatarsals, may follow. In countries with limited resources, the emphasis should be on clinical assessment for diag...

Introduction Most cases of Cushing's syndrome are known to have abnormalities of carbohydrate metabolism (Plotz, Knowlton and Ragan, 1952; Thorn, Renold and Cahill, 1959) and between 10-25% of patients have clinical diabetes mellitus (Thorn et al., 1959). However, the vascular complications of diabetes are reported to be uncommon (Thorn et al., 1959). In the past, adrenalectomy was tried for re...

Siblings of Individuals with First-Episode Psychosis Understanding Their Experiences and Needs Jacqueline Sin, MSc, BSc(Hons.)-Thorn, BN, BGS, PgCertCPN, RMN; Nicki Moone, BSc(Hons.)-Thorn, Dip. Nursing, RMN; and Paul Harris, BSc(Hons.)-Thorn, Dip. SW The growth of early intervention in psychosis services (EIPS) has prompted needed research to provide a robust evidence base to underpin practice...

Optical fibers offer high potential for interconnection networks (INs) for multiprocessing and multicomputing due to their ability to carry a large number of wavelengths at high transmission rates but current technology limits their use to only a few dozen wavelengths. One approach to circumvent this limitation is to arrange processing nodes (PNs) on fibers in groups and spatially separating th...

Soil enrichment was used to isolate soil microorganisms capable of degrading isopropyl carbanilate (propham), 3’,4’-dichloropropionanilide (propanil), 3’-chloro-2-methylp-valerotoluidide (solan), and methyl 3,4-dichlorocarbanilate (swep) in a muck and a silty clay loam. Degradation of the pesticides in enrichment solutions, and by pure cultures of effective microbial isolates was demonstrated b...

In article number 2003563, Jeung Ku Kang and co-workers describe aqueous hybrid capacitors assembled via a mesoporous thorn-covered core–shell cathode 3D reduced graphene oxide aerogel composite anode. The achieve high energy density up to 125 Wh kg−1, ≈100% Coulombic efficiency over 50 000 cycles, ultrahigh power 23 998 W kg−1 allowing ultrafast recharge within minute.