A dewetting viscous film develops a characteristic fluid rim at its receding edge due to mass conservation. In the course of the dewetting process, the rim becomes unstable via an instability of Rayleigh-Plateau type. An important difference exists between this classic instability of a liquid column and the rim instability in a thin film as the growth of the rim is continuously fueled by the re...

PURPOSE To identify progressive rim loss and describe patterns of regional change in various clinical presentations of glaucoma by scanning laser tomography (SLT). METHODS A previously described analytical approach was used to identify progressive rim area loss in SLT disc images of eyes of people with ocular hypertension (OHT, n = 97), early POAG (OHT converters; n = 30), asymmetric normal-p...

The biomechanical properties of the cornea and sclera are important in onset progression multiple ocular pathologies vary substantially between individuals, yet source this variation remains unknown. Here we identify genes putatively regulating corneoscleral tissue by conducting high-fidelity compliance measurements across BXD recombinant inbred mouse set performing quantitative trait analysis....

background the ala of the nose, with its particular texture and characteristics, poses both aesthetically and functionally intriguing challenges and is rather problematic regarding choices for reconstructive methods. both flaps and grafts have been used to restore natural structure of nasal ala. the present study summarizes a ten-year experience of reconstructive surgery using small composite g...

Figure 2. MRE Results. a) Magnitude image of the porcine globe imbedded in a bovine-gelatin substrate. b) Up-down sensitized wave image, showing the mode-conversion of 10-Hz longitudinal waves at the corneoscleral surface and propagation of the resulting shear waves inside the vitreous body. c) Shear stiffness map generated with a local frequency estimation algorithm, yielding an average stiffn...