Background: Intramedullary spinal cord tumours are Hardware formidable lesions in spine surgery due to the high risk of postoperative deficits associated with surgical resection.Traditional MRI imaging fails to provide a 3-D rendering of the relationship between the tumour and spinal cord sensory and motor pathways; in contrast, DTI/tractography ca

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are widely used to provide illumination due to their low energy requirements and high brightness.However, the LED spectrum contains an intense blue light component which is phototoxic to the retina.Recently, it has been reported that blue light may directly impinge on mitochondrial function in retinal ganglion cells (RG

Background: Vestibular migraine (VM) is the most frequent etiology of recurrent spontaneous episodic vertigo.Vestibular and oculomotor abnormalities have been described in VM; however, the diagnosis is currently based on Cushion symptoms.The objective of this study was to determine the most frequent abnormalities in videonystagmography (VNG), calor

Traffic patterns in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) usually follow a many-to-one model.Sensor nodes close to static sinks will deplete their limited energy more rapidly than other sensors, since they will have more data to forward during multihop transmission.This will cause network partition, isolated nodes and much shortened network lifetime.Thus

Wolbachia pipientis, a maternally transmitted bacterium that colonizes Pokers arthropods, may affect the general aspects of insect physiology, particularly reproduction.Wolbachia is a natural endosymbiont of Aedes fluviatilis, whose effects in embryogenesis and reproduction have not been addressed so far.In this context, we investigated the correla