History of (he case.?He was bitten by a bandicoot on the left hand one night while he was sleeping, about 20 days ago. The following morning he applied some country medicine to the wound (cocoanut rind burnt and mixed with oil). As it was not giving much pain he went to work as usual. After a few flays he began to get pain which steadily got worse on the spot where the bandicoot had bitten, so ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The study set out to describe women's experiences of intimate partner violence, the consequences of such violence, the help they received and women's experiences of their survival. BACKGROUND Social and health professionals do not have sufficient ability to identify and help families who suffer from intimate partner violence. Methods for identifying and treating partner vi...

Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a dangerous and potentially life-threatening event. We report the case of a 24-month old boy, who was initially presented with an episode of obstructive bronchitis to the family pediatrician. Then, while being treated with empiric antibiotics, he aspirated a peanut. Although resulting in a coughing episode, the mother did initially not ascribe any relevancy to i...

This paper demonstrates that "social network collaborative filtering" (SNCF), wherein user-selected like-minded alters are used to make predictions, can rival traditional user-to-user collaborative filtering (CF) in predictive accuracy. Using a unique data set from an online community where users rated items and also created social networking links specifically intended to represent likeminded ...