The new species is a member of an apparently monophyletic group within the genus that includes R. flexile, R. walga, R. himanturi, R. burgeri, R. euzeti, R. hawaiiensis, R. urobatidium, R. paratrygoni, R. ditesticulum, R. tetralobatum, R. margaritense, R. biorchidum, and R. spinicephalum. All of these species have bothridia with medial longitudinal septa, a constriction at mid-bothridium, and, ...

Peripherally-inserted central catheters (PICC) are long catheters inserted into one of the major veins in the antecubital fossa, or upper arm, and advanced into the central veins. The tip is located in the lower superior vena cava (SVC) (National Association of Vascular Access Networks [NAVAN], 1998; Royal College of Nursing [RCN], 2003; Infusion Nurses Society, 2006). Since the creation of the...

The modification methods described in this paper combine characteristics of PSOLA-based methods and algorithms that resynthesize speech from its short-time Fourier magnitude only. The starting point is a short-time Fourier representation of the signal. In the case of duration modification, portions, in voiced speech corresponding to pitch periods, are removed from or inserted in this representa...

To cite: Bashir A, Noroozian N, Bradlow W, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013202131 DESCRIPTION A 79-year-old woman presented with infection and erosion of a permanent pacemaker, which had been inserted 15 years earlier. A chest X-rays showed an abnormal position of ventricular lead, suggesting it was in the left rather than right ventricl...

Image compositing combines visual elements from multiple images aiming to produce natural-looking results. Poisson-imageediting methods can generate seamless compositions, but introduces color changes in the inserted elements, which often generate unrealistic and unpleasing results. Recently, Henz et al. have presented an approach for controlling the amount of color changes in the inserted imag...

Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs) Amanda Morden; Sonali Advani MD, MPH; Leslie Gosey, MS, RN, VA-BC; Victor Popoola, MBBS, MPH, ScM; Aaron M. Milstone, MD, MHS; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL; Internal Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Montgomery, AL; Vascular Access, Johns Hopkins Children’s Cent...

Background and aim:  Although there have been substantial developments in dental implant therapies, achieving good implant stability (ISQ >60) for implants inserted in augmented sinus sites appears to be challenging in comparison with non-augmented sites due to the high prevalence of bone resorption in posterior regions of maxilla. This study aimed to evaluate and compare the time required to a...

In fission yeast, RNA interference (RNAi)-dependent heterochromatin formation silences transgenes inserted at centromeres. In this issue, Bühler et al. (2007) demonstrate that the RNAi machinery directly targets transgene transcripts. Furthermore, they link transgene silencing to a protein complex resembling the TRAMP complex of budding yeast, which promotes transcript degradation via the exoso...

The connected components of an undirected graph are determined in the EREW model with p processors, using a parallel extension of the “sparsification” technique. A previous algorithm due to Kruskal et al. is optimal forp < ml/(*+&) < n/2. We show that our algorithm is work-optimal for an extended range of values. Using the “sparsification” tree data structure we provide also a dynamic algorithm...