Automatic knowledge grounding is still an open problem in cognitive robotics. Recent research in developmental robotics suggests that a robot's interaction with its environment is a valuable source for collecting such ...

CASE REPORT The patient, a 35-year-old woman, had a long history of postprandial epigastric pain and pressure. She had not had jaundice or overt pancreatitis but did have occasional fever. The patient underwent laparoscopic ...

Background: Hepatic portal venous gas (HPVG) has rarely been described in the presence of benign, non-life-threatening conditions such as gastric emphysema and gastric dilatation. In such cases, management and patient ...

We report here a case of acute Lyme disease in a 61-yr-old man who developed a facial nerve paralysis and a relentless intestinal pseudoobstruction 2 wk after the initial prodrome. Both the facial nerve paralysis and ...

Peripheral vasodilation initiates the hyperdynamic circulation in cirrhosis. Somatostatin and its analogues, such as octreotide, have a vasoconstrictive effect in cirrhotic patients and experimental animals with portal ...

Deparaffinization of formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissues with xylene currently remains a major challenge to the biomedical community. We developed an efficient xylene-free protocol to isolate proteins from ...

Aim: Self‐poisoning in childhood and adolescence is a major problem for health authorities all over the world. The objective of this study was to determine the pattern of self‐poisoning in Lebanese children and ...