Case 1-in January 1972 a nurse aged twenty years presented with locking of the left index finger. Earlier the same day she had been removing sutures, holding a forceps in the left hand, when the second metacarpo-phalangeal joint “locked” in the flexed position and she could not straighten it. She gave no history of any injury but said that during the preceding month she had noticed “cramps” in ...

Lie Analysis of Diierential Equations (D.E.) is based on the symmetries of D.E. and their integral curves. The method looks for new variables, called canonical variables, which straighten out the group action. This article is devoted to explain what are those variables and why they simplify the D.E., trying to strike a balance between the original avor of Lie's idea and the algorithm usually pr...

Perspective distortion always occurs while scanning thick, bound documents, resulting in two problems in the scanned grayscale image – (i) shade along the ‘spine’ of the book, and (ii) warping of words in the shade area. We proposed a restoration system to solve these two problems in our previous paper [1]. However the shape of the warped words was not fully restored, since we simply shifted an...

This article explores an emerging strategy by sections of the British radical right towards LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) community, who claim are existentially threatened alleged violent homophobia Islam their ostensible betrayal ‘the left’. Consequently, parts present themselves as ‘true’ protectors individuals through what we term alter-progressivism. By analysing re...

A bent femoral intramedullary nail due to secondary trauma presents unique challenges for nail extraction and subsequent exchange nailing. This article describes a case of a 25 year-old male patient who presented with a bent femoral intramedullary Kuntscher’s nail following a repeat trauma after a fall from stairs. The described surgical technique illustrates a simple method to straighten the b...

We study crystallization in a model system for eicosane (C20) by means of molecular dynamics simulation and identify the microscopic mechanisms of homogeneous crystal nucleation and growth. For the nucleation process, we observe that chains first align and then straighten. Then the local density increases and finally the monomer units become ordered positionally. The subsequent crystal growth p...

*Corresponding author: Dr. Alaleh Gheissari, Isfahan Child Growth and Development Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Ed ito ria l Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Recently, the term renal angina (RA) has been described to straighten using biomarkers in at-risk patients who have a combination of...

We describe an inferior vena cava filter retrieval technique requiring triple venous access performed in a 35-year-old male who was referred for filter removal 16 months after its insertion. The filter showed a right-sided tilt with endothelialization of the distal filter struts into the caval wall. Access was required via both internal jugular veins to straighten the filter using a snared-loop...