Diagnosis of Uterine Rupture with Ultrasound: An Unusual Presentation with Extrusion of Fetus into the Broad Ligament at Second Trimester

We describe an unusual case of uterine rupture caused by intra-amniotic ethacridine used for second trimester pregnancy termination. Ultrasound revealed no amniotic sac or fetal parts in the uterine cavity; instead, major parts of the dead fetus enclosed by membranous demarcation were found expulsed to the left side of the uterus. This membranous structure enclosing products of conception on one side of the uterus was detected by ultrasound and turned out to be the broad ligament. Uterine rupture was confirmed at surgery, and the fetus was expelled into the broad ligament through the lateral wall. The ultrasound findings may help to confirm this rare type of uterine rupture

Tobacco pipes from an underwater excavation at the quarantine harbour, Malta

This excavation was carried out in an area earmarked for development just off the lazaretto on Manoel Island in Marsamxett harbour (Figs. 2 and 3), between 22 and 29 June 2001.'7 The topography of the seabed consists of a steep slope descending from 4 to 27m at an angle of 55 degrees, values approximate. The top of the slope is littered with war damaged and discarded worked stone blocks (some of archaeological value) and a variety of debris. The main sediment consists of a mixture of grey silt and sand. Artefacts recovered ranged in date from before the era of the Knights of Saint John to Royal Naval issues (1530-1930). Seaweed and silt were removed from the artefacts before desalination.35 of the 42 pipes are stylistically Ottoman chibouks - ceramic bowls which would have had perishable reed or wooden stems. The other 7 fragments have origins in northern Europe.peer-reviewe

Computability Closure: Ten Years Later

The notion of computability closure has been introduced for proving the termination of higher-order rewriting with first-order matching by Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and Mitsuhiro Okada in a 1997 draft which later served as a basis for the author's PhD. In this paper, we show how this notion can also be used for dealing with beta-normalized rewriting with matching modulo beta-eta (on patterns \`a la Miller), rewriting with matching modulo some equational theory, and higher-order data types (types with constructors having functional recursive arguments). Finally, we show how the computability closure can easily be turned into a reduction ordering which, in the higher-order case, contains Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and Albert Rubio's higher-order recursive path ordering and, in the first-order case, is equal to the usual first-order recursive path ordering

Revisiting the Scrap Heap: The Decline and Fall of Smith v. F.W. Morse & Co.

[Excerpt] One of the more difficult tasks facing a federal court is trying to predict how a state’s highest court would rule on a question of law it has not yet addressed. That difficulty is well illustrated by the history of Wenners v. Great State Beverages, Inc., and in particular, the interpretation of that opinion contained in Smith v. F.W. Morse & Co. [ . . . ] This article begins with a close examination of Wenners and the two opinions on which Wenners relied for its now-canonical statement of the relationship between statutory and common law remedies. I continue with a discussion of Smith and the two opinions that Wenners purportedly consigned to the scrap heap. The next section explores the two distinctly different shadows cast by Wenners, one in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, the other in the New Hampshire Supreme Court. I conclude by suggesting that, in light of Bliss v. Stow Mills, Inc., the scrap heap may be due for a changing of the guard, with Smith replacing Godfrey.

Integrated Nucleosynthesis in Neutrino Driven Winds

Although they are but a small fraction of the mass ejected in core-collapse supernovae, neutrino-driven winds (NDWs) from nascent proto-neutron stars (PNSs) have the potential to contribute significantly to supernova nucleosynthesis. In previous works, the NDW has been implicated as a possible source of r-process and light p-process isotopes. In this paper we present time-dependent hydrodynamic calculations of nucleosynthesis in the NDW which include accurate weak interaction physics coupled to a full nuclear reaction network. Using two published models of PNS neutrino luminosities, we predict the contribution of the NDW to the integrated nucleosynthetic yield of the entire supernova. For the neutrino luminosity histories considered, no true r-process occurs in the most basic scenario. The wind driven from an older $1.4 M_\odot$ model for a PNS is moderately neutron-rich at late times however, and produces $^{87}$Rb, $^{88}$Sr, $^{89}$Y, and $^{90}$Zr in near solar proportions relative to oxygen. The wind from a more recently studied $1.27 M_\odot$ PNS is proton-rich throughout its entire evolution and does not contribute significantly to the abundance of any element. It thus seems very unlikely that the simplest model of the NDW can produce the r-process. At most, it contributes to the production of the N = 50 closed shell elements and some light p-nuclei. In doing so, it may have left a distinctive signature on the abundances in metal poor stars, but the results are sensitive to both uncertain models for the explosion and the masses of the neutron stars involved.Comment: 18 Pages, 14 Figures, Astrophysical Journal (Submitted 4/16/10