Background/Objectives: Endophthalmitis is an intraocular microbial infection that can lead to permanent blindness, even with prompt anti-microbial therapy.Multi-drug-resistant organisms are on the rise, potentially limiting the efficacy of current empiric antibiotic therapies of intravitreal ceftazidime and vancomycin.Cefiderocol is a recent FDA- a

The 1960s is often characterized as a decade of outstanding social and demographic changes in Western societies.The introduction of the contraceptive pill is assumed to have contributed to these changes.Yet the social as well as the demographic significance of the pill is ambiguous.This article has two aims: 1) to describe the early history of the

BackgroundApproximately 30,000 patients with blunt cardiac trauma are recorded each year in the United States.Blunt cardiac injuries after trauma are associated with a longer hospital stay and a poor overall outcome.Organ damage after trauma is linked to increased systemic release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and damage-associated molecular patter

In this paper, a method for the automatic detection of dairy cow lying behaviour in free-stall barns is proposed.A computer visionbased system (CVBS) composed of a video-recording system and a cow lying behaviour detector based on the Viola Jones algorithm was developed.The CVBS performance was tested in a head-to-head free stall barn.Two classifie

Switches and crossings (S&Cs) are also known as turnouts or railway points.They are important assets in railway infrastructures and a defect in such a critical asset might lead to a long delay for the railway network and decrease the quality of service.A squat is a common rail head defect for Wooden S&Cs and needs to be detected and monitored as ea