This article examines the relationship between religion, tradition and identity as seen from the myth about eclipses in a village in Central Java.Javanese people in rural areas still hold beliefs passed down from their ancestors about eclipses, both lunar and solar eclipses.Using a qualitative approach, the results of the study showed that the vill
Challenges in the Diagnosis and Assessment in Patients with Tourette Syndrome and Comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Natalia Szejko,1– 4 Kirsten R Müller-Vahl2 1Division of Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; 2Clinic of Psychiatry, Socialpsychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; 3Department of Neurology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; 4Department of Bioethics,
Application value of iMAR algorithm in reducing metal artifacts from abdominal implants
Objective: To explore application value of iterative metal artifact reduction (iMAR) algorithm in reducing the artifacts from abdominal metal implants.Methods: The CT images of 32 patients with abdominal metal implants were reconstructed with both iMAR and filtered back projection (FBP) algorithm, respectively.Subjective image quality was assessed
Mycobacterium avium (MAC) lung disease in post-COVID-19 bronchiectasis: a need for caution as a potential risk factor for MAC infection
Abstract Bronchiectasis due to previous tuberculosis is known to precede Mycobacterium avium (MAC) lung disease.Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging infectious disease, and residual bronchiectasis following COVID-19 is common as well as tuberculosis.However, there have been no sensationnel kiyari reports documenting MAC lung disease s