“Snow storm” testis

Testicular microlithiasis is an asymptomatic condition associated with calcification within theseminiferous tubule, natural history of which is not clearly known.Association with varioustesticular malignancies warrant regular follow up in patients with microlithiasis. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.20(1) 2021 p.194-196

Disaster Challenges in Tourism Industry and Local Communities in the Annapurna Conservation Area

Tourism is providing various opportunities to the stakeholders from local residents to national government in the country. Tourism sector has contributed 10.4 % of global GDP and 9.9 % of total employment in 2017 while 4.3 % GDP and 3.5 % of total employment of Nepal depended on tourism in 2014. Annapurna Circuit comprises most popular trekking route in the world with 22 feasible trekking sub-routes. The tourist flow has steadily increased from beginning to the recent time except for a few years in the insurgency period. The arrival of tourists in the Annapurna region has significantly decreased due to Snow Storm in 2014and Earthquake in 2015. These natural disasters have also severely damaged the infrastructures of tourism industry. As a result, tourism sector has been unable to continue job and create regular income regularly to the local people of ACA as well as high Mountain areas of Nepal in a consecutive years. It is necessary to cope with the problem by following resilience strategy to recover tourism in the future.

Figurative comparisons and eponims in functional diagnostics. Part 2. Echocardiography

This article is a continuation of the series ‘Figurative comparisons and eponyms in functional diagnostics’ systematized figurative comparisons and eponyms used in echocardiography. The contribution of great scientists to medicine is reflected here. They left their names in the name of the medical terms that they discovered (the names of diseases and syndromes, normal and pathological structures of the heart) in the form of eponymous names: Doppler, Menkeberg, Lambl Eustachio, Chiari, Valsalva, Fallo, Ebstein, Botallo, Lutembacher, Marfan, Barlow and others. Figurative comparisons are also described: ‘fish mouth’, ‘mercedes’, ‘smiley’, ‘hockey stick’, ‘dagger’, ‘scream of a seagull’, ‘candle flame’, ‘bull’s eye’, ‘snow storm’, etc. The terms given in the article have not only scientific, but also applied meaning. The terms will be useful and interesting to medical students, residents graduate students and practical doctors (doctors of functional and ultrasound diagnostics, cardiologists). This article will help test and possibly update their knowledge.

Penamaan Badai sebagai Pengingat Bencana Alam dalam Persepsi Etnolinguistik

Penelitian bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan nama-nama-nama badai sebagai pengenal bencana alam yang layak diwaspadai melalui kajian toponimi dan persepsi etnolinguistik. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif dan studi literatur, data sekunder, data survei berkenaan bencana alam, dan pengolahan data sebagai ancangan penelitian penamaan badai wilayah rawan bencana di Indonesia. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penamaan badai di Indonesia dapat dikategorikan sebagai berikut: angin pilin (whirlwind), angin puyuh (tornado), angin ribut (gale), angin ribut hebat (whole gale), angin ribut kuat (strong gale), angin ribut lemah (near gale), angin ribut sedang (fresh gale), badai debu (dust storm), badai elektrik (electrical storm), badai es (ice storm), badai ganas (violent storm), badai guntur (thunderstorm), badai guntur perenggan (frontal thunderstorm), badai magnet (magnetic storm), badai pasir (sand storm), badai salju (snow storm), badai tropik (tropical storm). Badai tropis, angin puyuh/puting beliung adalah angin kencang, tetapi angin kencang belum tentu dikatakan badai tropis maupun angin puting beliung.

Nitrogen Availability Decreases the Severity of Snow Storm Damage in a Temperate Forest

Storms are among the greatest natural disturbances in temperate forests, and increased nitrogen (N) availability is thought to increase storm damage. However, the extent to which N availability increases damage from snowfall is less clear. To test how N availability might affect the susceptibility of trees to snow damage in a temperate forest, we took advantage of an opportunistic storm and surveyed damage in fertilized and unfertilized stands, and across a native N availability gradient. In response to a severe, early season snow storm—a consequence of Superstorm Sandy—the percentages of both basal area and stems damaged were lower in a fertilized watershed than in an unfertilized watershed. Across the native N availability gradient, the percentage of basal area damaged by snow decreased with higher soil N. The effects of N availability on damage were also affected by tree species. Our results suggest that N availability decreases damage from snow storms, contrary to our hypotheses drawn from broader studies. Understanding the relation between storm damage and N availability is important, considering the global increase in N deposition, and since severe storms are likely to become more prevalent with climate change.

The necessity of a relational ethics alongside Noddings’ ethics of care in narrative inquiry

Amidst a winter snow storm we drove slowly and carefully to our research site. Leaving much earlier than usual we wanted to be there to greet the indigenous youth who we had come to know in the process of inquiring into their ongoing identity making. We came to know them over several months in a junior high school arts club and had developed relationships with them that were marked by care. In attending to care, Noddings (1984) offered us a way to think about ethics. Yet Noddings did not explicitly turn her attention to an ethics for research, rather her focus was on an ethics of care in moral education. Drawing on our work alongside indigenous youth we show how these four components of an ethics of care shaped our narrative inquiry and show how a relational ethics builds on, and extends, an ethics of care in narrative inquiry.