Mapping of Interventions of Social Protection for Tuberculosis Patients in Africa: A Scoping Review Protocol.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a public health problem worldwide, particularly in resource-limited countries. It is considered a social disease with a medical component that persists over time due to several social determinants, most of which are closely linked to poverty and difficult socioeconomic conditions. The objective of this exploratory study is to describe the social protection interventions available for people with TB in Africa.

Stroke care and outcomes in the Department of Neurology in Parakou, Benin: Retrospective cohort study.

Introduction: Stroke is one of the most common causes of high mortality rates in Africa with many unknown aspects around its prognosis. In this study we aim to describe stroke characteristics and in-hospital mortality of stroke in Parakou.

Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study including all stroke patients admitted to the Department of Neurology at Parakou Teaching Hospital from January 1, 2013 through to December 31, 2019.

Non periodic oscillations, bistability, coexistence of chaos and hyperchaos in the simplest resistorless Op-Amp based Colpitts oscillator.

In the framework of a project on simple circuits with unexpected high degrees of freedom, we report an autonomous microwave oscillator made of a CLC linear resonator of Colpitts type and a single general purpose operational amplifier (Op-Amp). The resonator is in a parallel coupling with the Op-Amp to build the necessary feedback loop of the oscillator. Unlike the general topology of Op-Amp-based oscillators found in the literature including almost always the presence of a negative resistance to justify the nonlinear oscillatory behavior of such circuits, our zero resistor circuit exhibits chaotic and hyperchaotic signals in GHz frequency domain, as well as many other features of complex dynamic systems, including bistability.

Erratum to: Noise effects on robust synchronization of a small pacemaker neuronal ensemble via nonlinear controller: electronic circuit design.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1007/s11571-016-9393-1.].

Strangulated or incarcerated spontaneous lumbar hernia as exceptional cause of intestinal obstruction: case report and review of the literature.

Lumbar hernias are rare conditions and about 300 cases have been reported since the first description by Barbette in 1672. Therefore strangulation or incarceration are also exceptionally encountered. We present a 62 -year-old-man who had strangulated left lumbar hernia and consequent mechanical small-bowel obstruction, alongside with a non strangulated right lumbar hernia.

Cog1p plays a central role in the organization of the yeast conserved oligomeric Golgi complex.

The conserved oligomeric Golgi (COG) complex is an evolutionarily conserved peripheral membrane oligomeric protein complex that is involved in intra-Golgi protein trafficking. The COG complex is composed of eight subunits that are located in two lobes; Lobe A contains COG1-4, and Lobe B is composed of COG5-8. Both in vivo and in vitro protein-protein interaction techniques were applied to characterize interactions between individual COG subunits.