Gastrointestinal complaints are one of the most common reasons individuals seek medical care. Many have been through numerous physician consultations and treatment modalities without relief. Unfortunately, millions more suffer silently, thinking that their GI symptoms are “normal”; while self-medicating with antacids, Pepto Bismal or food avoidance. Additionally, many GI complaints are embarras...

Truth be told, this definition is a bit embarrassing. It would mean that taking any function from calculus whose domain contains [1,+∞) and restricting it to positive integer values, we get an arithmetical function. For instance, e −3x cos2 x+(17 log(x+1)) is an arithmetical function according to this definition, although it is, at best, dubious whether this function holds any significance in n...

Faecal incontinence is an embarrassing symptom that should be assessed. Faecal management systems (FMS) collect and contain liquid or semi-liquid stool, helping to preserve skin integrity and prevent environmental contamination. Nurses from three health boards across Wales joined together to produce guidance for using FMSs in practice. Backed by national organisations and the chief nursing offi...

Was the Commynes’s syntactic cohesion (a man “not literary”, father of genre memoirs and diplomat fifteenth century which syntax has been often described as paratactic or uncohesive) influenced, according to received idea, by his habit diplomatic despatch was she perceived uncohesive contemporaries? To answer questions, respectively, we compare lack Memoirs with those autograph letters then sea...

Game cheating has become a serious problem embarrassing the long term development of computer game. However, there’s no complete taxonomy survey on game cheating up to date yet. In this paper, we give the strict definition and complete taxonomy on game cheating. Our taxonomy is with cheating logic, and is classified by cheating motivation, cheating principal, cheating executants, cheating envir...

In my previous letter in response to Graham Mark's 3/16/95 guest editorial defending evolutionary theory, I pointed out some of the difficulties a materialist has in accounting for noumenal categories and, in particular, the embarrassing difficulty the materialist faces in accounting for coded, symbolic information comprising the genome of the first living organism. In this letter my focus will...

Incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD) can be both painful and embarrassing for patients (Bianchi, 2012), and with a prevalence estimate of between 20% and 27%, it is an important tissue viability priority in acute hospitals (Junkin et al, 2005; Junkin and Selekof, 2007). It has been suggested that IAD develops when skin is damaged primarily by the reaction of urine and/or faeces (Gray et al,...

GPGPU has proved effective in speeding up many applications, notably those that exhibit “embarrassing” parallelism (vector and matrix arithmetic, graphics, image processing, etc.). Other applications have proved more challenging. In particular, little research has been published on GPGPU parallelization of genetic algorithms. Genetic algorithms are inherently sequential in nature, but there is ...

Oral myiasis is a rare pathology and a risk to the patient's life. Conventional treatment is mechanical removal of the larvae (maggots) one by one, which is painful, distressing, and embarrassing both to the patient and to the dentist. We present a case report of a patient with cerebral palsy that had oral myiasis treated successfully with ivermectin. The use of this antibiotic in humans, its m...

A 59-year-old man presented with erosion of an inflatable penile prosthesis. The cylinders were not deflated and the right one protruded from the urethra. Autoinflation that causes failure of deflation is an annoying and embarrassing mechanical failure. This failure may cause intraurethral erosion of the prosthesis. Urologists should inform their patients who hope for implantation of an inflata...