A pencil core with an intact pencil tip was excised from the thigh of a 60-year-old male 53 years after a puncture wound. Histologic examination of the excised pencil core and the surrounding tissue revealed a foreign body reaction with abundant entrapped dark black pigment and chronic reparative changes, including dense sclerosis and focal granulation tissue formation.

A new generalized inversion for square matrices based on projections is introduced. It includes as special cases known generalized inverses such as the Moore-Penrose and the Drazin inverses. When associated with a regular matrix pencil, it can be expressed by a contour integral formula and can be used, in particular, to write down an explicit representation of the solutions of linear differenti...

A new generalized inversion for square matrices based on projections is introduced. It includes as special cases known generalized inverses such as the Moore-Penrose and the Drazin inverses. When associated with a regular matrix pencil, it can be expressed by a contour integral formula and can be used, in particular, to write down an explicit representation of the solutions of linear differenti...

In this paper, the application of a Graphene oxide (GRPox) integrated on single-use pencil graphite electrode (PGE) for the enhanced monitoring of nucleic acids and for the sensitive and selective detection of the label free DNA hybridization related to Hepatitis B virus (HBV) sequences is described. Electrochemical behaviors of GRPox modified PGEs were firstly investigated using electrochemica...

Differential diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychological disorders require assessments that can differentiate overlapping symptoms. Previous research has most often relied on paper-and-pencil as well as computerized psychometric tests of cognitive functions. Although these approaches provide highly systematic control and delivery of performance challenges, they have also been criticized as li...

This paper describes a minimax state estimation approach for linear differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) with uncertain parameters. The approach addresses continuous-time DAEs with non-stationary rectangular matrices and uncertain bounded deterministic input. An observation’s noise is supposed to be random with zero mean and unknown bounded correlation function. Main result is a Generalized ...

We describe how the Harry Dym equation fits into the the bi-Hamiltonian formalism for the Korteweg-de Vries equation and other soliton equations. This is achieved by means of a certain Poisson pencil constructed from two compatible Poisson structures. We obtain an analogue of the Kadomtsev-Petviashivili hierarchy whose reduction leads to the Harry Dym hierarchy. We call such system the HD-KP hi...