Purtscher's retinopathy is a haemorrhagic and vaso-occlusive retinal vasculopathy, caused by microembolisation occluding retinal and choroidal arterioles. This leads to retinal haemorrhages and ischaemia. The usual cause is severe trauma. 1 However, a variety of conditions including acute pancreatitis, childbirth, long bone fracture, chest trauma and ...
Shamik, Dholakia +2 more
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Drunk potassium channels [PDF]
We report the case of a 42-year-old woman who was admitted due to alcohol induced dehydration leading to cardiac symptoms. On physical examination severe hypokalaemia and long QT syndrome were apparent. During potassium (K+) supplementation we simultaneously observed QT interval recovery.
Amir M, Nia +3 more
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‘Half Victim, Half Accomplice’: Cat Person and Narcissism [PDF]
At the end of 2017, Kristen Roupenian’s short story, Cat Person, went viral. Published at the height of the #MeToo movement, it depicted a ‘toxic date’ and a disturbing sexual encounter between Margot, a college student, and Robert, an older man she ...
Melo Lopes, Filipa
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Masterful women: Colonial women slaveholders in the urban low country [PDF]
When Abraham Minis, merchant and tavern keeper, of Savannah, Georgia sat down to draw up his last will and testament he faced a heart-wrenching dilemma: how would he successfully provide for all of his eight children and also ensure that his beloved wife
Dornan, I
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Machismo Syndrome: A Residential Correlate of Its Expression in a Mexican Peasant Community [PDF]
The Michaelson Goldschmidt hypothesis states that in peasant societies wherein male dominance is an ideal, matrilocal residence tends to encourage the expression of the machismo syndrome of behaviors.
Brueske, J. M.
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No Need of Gold — Alcohol Control Laws and the Alaska Native Population: From the Russians through the Early Years of Statehood [PDF]
This study revises two manuscripts by Stephen Conn on alcohol control and Alaska Natives: "Alcohol Control and Native Alaskans — from the Russians to Statehood: The Early Years — Alcohol Control in Village Alaska" (1980) and "Town Law and Village Law ...
Conn, Stephen, Moras, Antonia
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Punishment in Pre-Colonial Indigenous Societies in North America [chapter] [PDF]
This paper was originally presented at the Conference on Punishment of the Jean Bodin Society for the Comparative History of Institutions, Barcelona, Spain, May 1987.
Conn, Stephen
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Ecoso exchange newsletter : ecological, sociological and political discourse 2/44; June 1997 [PDF]
This is a special edition on public housing in Victoria 1937 to 1997. Contents: Page 2. The Tenants Councils (1937 to 1950) 5. The HCV's First Thirty Years (1937/8 to 1967) 9. Community Housing ? Public Housing ? (issues of the 90's) 10.
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Human Gait Database for Normal Walk Collected by Smart Phone Accelerometer
The goal of this study is to introduce a comprehensive gait database of 93 human subjects who walked between two endpoints during two different sessions and record their gait data using two smartphones, one was attached to the right thigh and another one
Bayat, Akram +8 more
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A review of trials investigating efavirenz-induced neuropsychiatric side effects and the implications [PDF]
Background: Efavirenz is part of the first-line treatment for HIV patients including South Africa with approximately 50% experiencing neuropsychiatric side effects.
Gaida, Razia +4 more
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