Granular cell tumor of the tongue in a 6-year-old girl : A case report

Granular cell tumor is a relatively uncommon benign hamartomatous lesion occurring in almost any part of the body. The tongue and the buccal mucosa are common intra oral sites. Granular cell lesions may be found in other diverse sites such as the jaw, skin, gastro intestinal tract and respiratory tract. The histogenesis of the lesion still remains unknown. However, histochemical and ultra structural studies propose the origin of the lesion from schwann cells, striated muscle, mesenchymal cells, histiocytes and epithelial cells. The tumor generally occurs in middle or older aged adults. The lesion is typically seen as an uninflammed asymptomatic mass measuring about two cms in diameter with a yellowish surface coloration. As most of the granular cell tumors are benign, surgical excision of the lesion is the treatment of choice. We describe a case of granular cell tumor of the tongue in a 6 year old girl along with a brief review of literature on granular cell tumors

A Review on Detection of Medical Plant Images

Both human and non-human life on Earth depends heavily on plants. The natural cycle is most significantly influenced by plants. Because of the sophistication of recent plant discoveries and the computerization of plants, plant identification is particularly challenging in biology and agriculture. There are a variety of reasons why automatic plant classification systems must be put into place, including instruction, resource evaluation, and environmental protection. It is thought that the leaves of medicinal plants are what distinguishes them. It is an interesting goal to identify the species of plant automatically using the photo identity of their leaves because taxonomists are undertrained and biodiversity is quickly vanishing in the current environment. Due to the need for mass production, these plants must be identified immediately. The physical and emotional health of people must be taken into consideration when developing drugs. To important processing of medical herbs is to identify and classify. Since there aren't many specialists in this field, it might be difficult to correctly identify and categorize medicinal plants. Therefore, a fully automated approach is optimal for identifying medicinal plants. The numerous means for categorizing medicinal plants that take into interpretation based on the silhouette and roughness of a plant's leaf are briefly précised in this article

Influence of Recycled Aggregate on Shear Behavior of Steel Fibrous SCC

Of all the different kinds of failures in concrete, shear failure is a sudden and brittle and occurs abruptly without any prior warning. To avoid these types of failures in concrete, beams are traditionally reinforced with stirrups at closer spacing based on design. An experimental study was carried out to study the shear behavior of steel fiber reinforced self-compacting concrete (SCC) beams with recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) as a complete replacement of both natural coarse and fine aggregate. The experimental program consists of 24 beams of which 12 beams were cast with natural aggregate and remaining 12 beams were cast using recycled aggregates as a complete replacement of natural aggregates. Due to the use of recycled concrete aggregates as coarse and fine aggregates, the compressive strength reduced by 7.8% and 8% for 30 and 70 MPa Concrete. The ultimate shear strength reduced by 14% and 12% due to use of recycled concrete aggregates for SCC30 and SCC70 beams respectively. The investigation indicates that the ultimate load and ultimate shear strength decreases as the spacing of stirrups increased. It was observed from the experimental results that addition of steel fibers enhanced the mechanical properties of both natural aggregate based self-compacting concrete (NASCC) and recycled aggregate based self-compacting concrete (RASCC). Also due to the addition of steel fibers the performance of SCC beams has improved. The shear strength obtained experimentally was compared with the existing models in the literature and the correlation was found to be satisfactor

Sugar Cane Refining And Processing Company: A Comprehensive Case In Measuring A Firms Cost Of Capital

The Sugar Cane Refining and Processing Company is a comprehensive case illustrating how a firms financial manager should calculate the firms cost of capital. Senior level undergraduate and graduate corporate financial management courses cover advanced topics in cost of capital and applying the rate in capital budgeting. To cover this relevant topic in a single case, the invented or armchair approach is used. This case is completely contrived but is very educationally effective