The possible-word constraint (PWC; Norris, McQueen, Cutler, & Butterfield, 1997) has been proposed as a language-universal segmentation principle: Lexical candidates are disfavoured if the resulting segmentation of continuous speech leads to vowelless residues in the input-for example, single consonants. Three word-spotting experiments investigated segmentation in Slovak, a language with single...

We report the case of a 36-year old patient in her second pregnancy and hospitalization for metrorrhagia in the third trimester. Suprapubic ultrasound was performed during each hospitalization which showed anterior placenta in the correct location without signs of placental abruption. On her third hospitalization, at 36 weeks of pregnancy, transvaginal ultrasound was performed. It showed an ech...

Cistanche species, known as Rou Cong-Rong in Chinese, are an endangered wild species and are mainly distributed in the arid lands and warm deserts of northwestern China. Within Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Herba Cistanche is applied as a tonic and/or in a formula for chronic renal disease, impotence, female infertility, morbid leucorrhea, profuse metrorrhagia, and senile constipation. Th...

The patient was a housewife aged 57 years. In 1942 she suffered from severe metrorrhagia stated to be caused by uterine fibroids. A subtotal hysterectomy was performed in a country hospital, but the pathological details of this are not available. Since this operation and until the onset of the illness to be described, the patient was in excellent health. In July 1949, whilst a front-seat passen...

We propose the exploitation of a holed-designed poly(dimethyl)siloxane (PDMS) membrane as an innovative microarray spotter. The membrane is fabricated by a simple technological approach and can be reused several times. A good level of reproducibility is found upon spotting fluorescent proteins at different concentrations over large areas.

Is breakthrough bleeding putting you on the spot? One common side effect for many women who use the NuvaRing [2] is spotting, or light blood loss in between their periods. This is a perfectly normal occurrence, and it does not mean that the NuvaRing is not working as a contraceptive. The amount of bleeding is usually minimal and may occur from time to time for no apparent reason. However, shoul...