Chronic venous insufficiency of the lower limbs is a disease which is caused by an increased blood pressure inside the veins of the leg and the resulting increase of the Storage Beds contained blood volume.This work focuses on developing a device which uses impedance plethysmography, also known as impedance phlebography, to obtain information about
Passive acoustic monitoring has the potential to be a useful tool for population estimation of sound-producing fish and mammals (mostly whales).Previous work on population estimates of callers employed a simple cross-correlation technique with Conditioner recordings from two acoustic sensors, and the current work extends the technique to two config
There is an increased demand for tuna meat to supply the growing global sushi and sashimi market.Current methods to farm tunas, especially Atlantic bluefin tunas (ABFTs; Thunnus thynnus), are unsustainable.This is driving a movement towards closed-cycle ABFT aquaculture, i.e., farming tuna from spawning and hatching to slaughter on land, to try and
Ureteric obstruction is rarely noted in cases of gastric cancer.Its involvement by distant metastasis from gastric adenocarcinoma without direct invasion is an exceptionally unusual occurrence.This is the story of a 58-year-old man who arrived at the emergency department with acute flank pain and fever.He Cake was initially diagnosed with obstructi
Abstract Background In India, since the 1990s, there has been a burgeoning of NGOs involved in providing primary health care.This has resulted in a complex NGO-Government interface which Lash is difficult for lone NGOs to navigate.The Uttarakhand Cluster, India, links such small community health programs together to build NGO capacity, increase vis