The pre-operative diagnosis was a cerebellar turnout; the cyst was operated on using puncture, aspiration, irrigation and resection. Sixteen months post-operatively, the patient is in a good health. A hydatid cyst must always be considered in the differential

diagnosis of cystic lesions of the cranium, especially for those children living in rural areas. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“Isotactic polypropylene has been systematically studied with in situ optical microscopy to obtain a real space view of the morphology evolution of shear induced crystallization as a function of shear rates and shear time to elucidate the mechanism of shish formation. The critical shear time for inception of shish formation on the shear rate have provided an important understanding of the molecular and entangled network relaxation in relation to the shish formation. Also the observation of see more a typical

shear time dependent comet like shish-kebab structure formation on the interface and the morphological growth of the shish from a fiber inside our sample have led to a new hypothesis that the shish is formed through a multiple discrete steps instead of forming directly selleck screening library to the final most stable state, this means that a transition state may be existed before shish growth. Two steps shear experiments with various time intervals between each step were designed to verify our proposed transition state mechanism, which can be observed much directly and obviously through real-space morphology, especially at low shear rate with long shear time. Another time dependent relaxation Belnacasan time is introduced base on shear rate dependent

experiment after the first step shear and has close relationship with the existence of the critical shear time. A general framework for the shish formation has been established which can capture all the observed morphological features well, including the existence of the critical shear time at a given shear rate.”
“Objective To compare the prevalence of underweight as calculated from Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) growth curves (based on the Harvard scale) and the new WHO Child Growth Standards.\n\nMethods We randomly selected 806 children under 6 years of age from 45 primary anganwadi (childcare) centres in Chandigarh, Punjab, India, that were chosen through multistage stratified random sampling. Children were weighed, and their weight for age was calculated using IAP curves and WHO growth references. Nutritional status according to the WHO Child Growth Standards was analysed using WHO Anthro statistical software (beta version, 17 February 2006). The chi(2) test was used to determine statistical significance at the 0.05 significance level.\n\nFindings The prevalence of underweight (Z score less than -2) in the first 6 months of life was nearly 1,6 times higher when calculated in accordance with the new WHO standards rather than IAP growth curves.