THE COMMONEST causes of rupture of the kidney are either road traffic accidents or rugby football. A kidney can be damaged by a direct blow in the loin, such as when a player falls on the ball and the pack forms a loose scrum, kicking everything in sight including the victim's loins. Another form of sport in which renal damage is not infrequent is horse-riding. If the rider is thrown and lands ...

This paper presents a new family of twelfth-order methods for solving simple roots of nonlinear equations which greatly improves the order of convergence and the computational efficiency of the Newton’s method and some other known methods.

mohammad akram (ghanimat-e-konjahi) was from gujarat, india and lived during the era of alamgir king (eleventh and twelfth centuries). in his poetry, one can find new ideas and delicate senses especially in his neirang-e-eshgh, which is also known as ghanimat. his complete collection of poetry consists of lyrics, elegies and quatrains. in his poetry, ghanimat has followed great masters of poetr...

We report the twelfth case of primary leiomyosarcoma of the ureter, which is also the first such case studied with transmission electron microscopy. The clinical appearance of this case was that of acute urinary obstruction.