Background: Hair-thread tourniquet syndrome (HTTS) is a rare condition and it refers to the strangulation of a distal appendage by thread or hair, leading to impairment of blood flow and ischemia which if left untreated becomes a surgical emergency.It is usually misdiagnosed due to its infrequent presentation in a hidden part of the body.Case Prese
GIScience research challenges for realizing discrete global grid systems as a Digital Earth
Increasing data resources are available for documenting and detecting changes in environmental, ecological, and socioeconomic processes.Currently, data are distributed across a wide variety of sources (e.g.data silos) and published in a variety of formats, scales, and semantic representations.A key issue, therefore, in building systems that can rea