Introduction In medical practice, we encounter many diseases, which can manifest in different ways. Most of the time, careful history taking and meticulous clinical examination can easily direct the clinician towards an accurate diagnosis. While with others, they may need further supporting evidence either from laboratory investigations or imaging.

Nonsurgical management has become the standard care for hemodynamically stable patients with splenic injury from blunt abdominal trauma. To attempt nonsurgical management, it is important to identify and characterize not only the splenic injury but also the concurrent injury to solid viscera, bowel and mesentry, or retroperitoneum that may require

The work described in this book represents the latest research on theoretical concepts and applied projects within this field and brings together contributions from twenty-nine countries, representing all continents. The authors address questions on the theoretical foundation of Philosophy for Children, the application of philosophical methods, the

We describe a case of chronic tongue ulceration with systemic symptoms in a patient with poorly controlled diabetes. A biopsy of a lesion from the posterior third of the tongue showed features typical of histoplasmosis. A CT of the thorax and abdomen revealed a diffuse reticulonodular pattern bilaterally.The intra-abdominal organs were normal.Image

The Third National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS III) was conducted in 2006 on a nationally representative sample of population in Malaysia. Over 21,000 children aged 0-17.9 years were measured for body weight and stature according to the protocol of the World Health Organization. This article describes the nutritional status of children aged 0

Affective interface that acquires and detects the emotion of the user can potentially enhance the humancomputer interface experience. In this paper, an affective brain-computer interface (ABCI) is proposed to perform affective computation on electroencephalogram (EEG) correlates of emotion. The proposed ABCI extracts EEG features from subjects whil

In the present paper we consider countable state of p-adic Potts model on the tree. Under some condition on weights we establish uniqueness of Gibbs measures for the model. Note that this condition does not depend on values of the prime p. An analogous fact is not true when the number of spins is finite.This article appeared in a journal published

Research design and methods are essential before any form of research can be conducted. A proper research design and an accurate research method are important to ensure that the findings are valid and reliable. Weaknesses in the research method might not yield accurate findings. Both research design and research method are underlined by epistemolog

An automated surveillance system should have the ability to recognize human behaviour and to warn security personnel of any impending suspicious activity. Human posture is one of the key aspects of analyzing human behaviour. We investigated three clustering techniques to recognize human posture. The system is first trained to recognize a pair of po

Conventional process of producing silicon based products uses large work-piece and it is difficult to attain high flatness of the finished surface. Thus it is not unusual to find it difficult to fine finish small area of planar surfaces and attain high degree of flatness on the finished surfaces. The manufacturing of silicon wafers in particular in