The daily nighttime lights (NTL) and the amount of location-service requests (NLR) data have been widely used as a proxy for measures of disaster-induced power outages and geo-tagged human activity dynamics.However, the association between the two datasets is not well understood.In this study, we investigated how the NTL signals and geo-tagged huma
BackgroundStudying prenatal influences of early life growth is relevant to life-course epidemiology as some of its features have been linked to the onset of later diseases.MethodsWe studied the association between prenatal maternal characteristics (height, age, parity, education, pre-pregnancy body Napkins mass index (BMI), smoking, gestational dia
Accessory scrotum (AS) is an extremely rare congenital anomaly, defined as scrotal-like tissue outside a normal anatomical location, without associated testes.It Strap Covers is often associated with perineal lipomas and other anomalies.We report a newborn male with a scrotum-like perineal mass posterior to the original scrotum.Postnatal assessment
The filoviruses, Marburg and Ebola, are non-segmented negative-strand RNA viruses causing severe hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in humans and nonhuman primates.The sequence of events that leads to release of filovirus particles from cells is poorly understood.Two contrasting mechanisms have been proposed, one proceeding via a "submarin