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Introduction: Acute abdomen is a common emergency presentation, and gastrointestinal perforation can be rapidly fatal if not promptly identified. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) offers a rapid bedside alternative when advanced imaging is delayed or unavailable. 

Case Report: We report a 40-year-old man presenting in cardiac arrest, re...


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Many statistical models of properties of words in texts and in running speech use as their outcome variables properties of word tokens, rather than properties aggregated over word types. Here, we describe methodological and conceptual problems with token-level (or token-based) models, including assumption violations of the models typically used, model redundancy, and distorti...


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Results from previous corpus and untimed judgment studies indicate that the distribution and acceptability of relative clause extraposition (RCE) in German are modulated both by the extraposition distance and the length of the extraposed relative clause. The observed complexity effects have been argued to reflect processing efficiency constraints, such as a short-before-long ...


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Case Presentation: A 60-year-old male from the country of Jordan presented to the emergency department with swelling, pain, black lesions on his fingertips and thumb, and a red streak up his arm. The patient had been trimming sheep wool and goat skin two weeks prior to onset of symptoms and cut his left thumb with trimming shears. 

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