Objective Conjunctivitis is a common disease in neonates. Several bacterial and viral infectious agents may cause it. Tear circulation and blinking has protective effects from bacterial colonization in the conjuntival sac. Reduced blinking increases the possibility of bacterial conjunctivitis. We studied the effect of eye patches on bacterial colonization of the conjunctival sac.  Methods In 1...

Landscape connectivity is critical to maintaining viable populations within patches of suitable habitat and is a function of the surrounding matrix’s resistance to an organism’s movement. As land use within the matrix varies, it can be expected that landscape connectivity will vary and as connectivity decreases, the probability of habitat occupancy by a species will decrease as well. Recognizin...

According to metapopulation theory, the capacity of a habitat patch network to support the persistence of a species is measured by the metapopulation capacity of the patch network. Mathematically, metapopulation capacity is given by the leading eigenvalue kM of an appropriately constructed non-negative n n matrix M, where n is the number of habitat patches. Both habitat destruction (in the sens...

Wave propagation in composite structures with shunted piezoelectric patches is investigated in this work. The Wave Finite Element(WFE) approach is firstly developed as a prediction tool for wave propagation characteristics like dispersion curves in composite structures, and subsequently extended to consider shunted piezoelectric elements through the Diffusion Matrix Model(DMM). A three-layered ...

creating and preserving large patches in land use configuration and satisfying compactness and contiguity in land use configuration are nature-prescribed and nature-inspired criteria that can be used in land use planning better that before. accompanying compactness and contiguity as the important landscape metrics in land use planning and land use configuration is close to applying proactive ap...

Abstract A model for the transmission dynamics of Ebola virus in a multipatch network setting is studied. The considers contribution to by people who are susceptible, infectious, isolated, deceased but still infectious and not yet buried, as well pathogen at interacting nodes or patches. Humans can move between patches carrying disease any patch region n communities (patches). Both direct indir...

Recently, projector is one of the most common display devices not only for presentation at offices and classes, but for entertainment at home and theater. The use of mobile projector expands applications to meeting at fields and presentation on any spots. Accordingly, the projection is not always guaranteed on white screen, causing some color distortion. Several algorithms have been suggested t...