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Nerve compression syndrome is defined as chronic pressure damage to a peripheral nerve, with the superficial peroneal nerve (SPN) rarely affected.A 19-year-old female patient presented to our surgical outpatient clinic reporting persistent dysesthesia with projection to the dorsum of the left foot for one year. She had already undergone extensive orthopedic and radiologic evaluation for bone related injuries. In the course of the patient interview, however, she recalled repeated bruises of the dorsal ankle region, caused by kicks/steps of an opponent player during her soccer training. Based on the clinical and radiological findings, a nerve compression syndrome of the ramus cutaneus dorsalis medialis of the superficial peroneal nerve was suspected. The patient gave consent to exploration and neurolysis as well as re-embedding and covering of the nerve with a s-shaped flap.The diagnosis of medial dorsal cutaneous nerve entrapment requires a thorough medical history and a detailed clinical examination, including the Tinel's sign for exact localization of the entrapment site. Awareness of these syndromes among physicians is crucial in order to avoid misdiagnosis and consequences. Ultimately, surgical decompression is the causal treatment of the entrapment and leads to an improvement in quality of life and neuropathic pain.

This paper addresses a major historical lacuna by highlighting some of the ways through which women helped to shape Irish responses to the English Reformation in Ireland. It reveals that women were often key to a web of contacts linking English resistance to the Tudors' reformations to Irish resistance. It affirms that women played a significant role in the Reformation in Tudor Ireland, not least of all in its ultimate failure. Because virtually no Irish women became Protestants in the sixteenth century, though a small number of Irish men was converted, no self-perpetuating indigenous community of Irish Protestants was generated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present work, we investigate the role of embedded viscosity in anisotropic dark energy in Saez-Ballester and Brans-Dicke theories of gravitation with Bianchi type II, VIII and IX metric. Hyperbolic volumetric expansion is considered to solve the field equations. It is observed that the universe is expanding and accelerating. The universe tends to be isotropic at later stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En el presente artículo se reflexiona y se expone parte de los resultados de un trabajo investigativo referido a la apropiación de conocimientos mediante la expresión plástica, actividad en la que participaron docentes y estudiantes escolares pertenecientes a la modalidad educativa denominada Aula Abierta. Concluida la investigación, queda manifiesto que el estudio, la indagación, la reflexión y la búsqueda sistemática de conocimientos y formas de aprender y enseñar de parte del docente, son elementos fundamentales que propician cambios cualitativos en la formación académica de éste, lo que le permite llevar al aula formas innovadoras para lograr aprendizajes significativos en sus estudiantes. El diseño de situaciones de aprendizaje desde una perspectiva constructivista, holista y lúdica, así como el aprovechamiento de contextos, permitieron el logro de aprendizajes cognitivos, afectivos y psicomotores mediante la expresión de actividades plásticas, lo que le posibilita al joven el desarrollo de una personalidad integral

Aim: To survey the entire population (n = 116) afflicted with severe haemophilia A or B born in Sweden over a 20-y period (1980-1999), and to examine the epidemiological, genetic and clinical aspects of development of inhibitors to factors VIII and IX (FVIII/FIX).Methods: One hundred of the subjects had haemophilia A and 16 had haemophilia B. All of these subjects had received prophylactic treatment and had a check-up of inhibitor status at least twice a year. Sixty-one were born between 1980 and 1989 and 55 between 1990 and 1999.Results: Nineteen percent (19/100) of those with haemophilia A and 37% (6/16) with haemophilia B developed inhibitors at 12-18 mo of age, after exposure to FVIII/FIX concentrates for an average of 14 d in the case of haemophilia A and 16 d in haemophilia B. All patients with inhibitors carried mutations that impaired protein synthesis. The high incidence of FIX inhibitors may have been due to the large number of complete deletions (13%) in the Swedish haemophilia B population. Patients with haemophilia A showed no significant increase (p = 0.65) in incidence of inhibitors (n = 10/48, total incidence 21%) in the 1990s, when they were treated mainly with recombinant products, as compared to the 1980s (n = 9/52, 17%), when they received intermediate/high-purity plasma-derived concentrates.Conclusion: Our population-based study verifies that genotype has a general impact on the incidence of FVIII/FIX inhibitors, and that recombinant FIII/FIX concentrates are not a predisposing factor for inhibitor development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Variable relation between rest energy density and string tension density is proposed. • The universe is found to be expanding and accelerating. • It is observed that isotropy of the universe is significantly affected by string. In this work we have proposed a variable relation between densities of cosmic string. Bianchi type II,VIII and IX space time is explored in the context of general relativity. The field equations are solved by assuming that the shear scalar is proportional to expansion scalar. Three different cases are investigated. It is observed that strings contribute significantly in isotropy and acceleration of the universe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]