The mathematical theory of the transition of fluorescein from blood vessels into the disc tissue is developed. Formulas result which show the dependence of the transition of a diffusible substance on intraocular pressure: the "fluorescein transition time" is composed of two parameters, a pressure-dependent one and a pressure-independent one. It is shown what measurements are needed to obtain th...

This is the most complete textbook on the subject child hygiene that we have yet seen. No aspect of the subject is left untouched. The author has a wide knowledge of child hygiene and communicates his knowledge in an easy but elegant, literary style. Despite ^e detail, it is a very readable book. The illustrations are numerous and add greatly to the interest of the book. ?The history and develo...

I knocked on Denise’s door, and a weak voice told me to come in. When I entered, Denise was lying in bed, barely able to lift her head from the pillow. Her body was skeletal, and her arms were the bruised color of cancer and chemotherapy. Intravenous lines dangled, as saline and morphine flowed into her veins. A breakfast tray sat untouched on the bedside table. The room smelled of sweat, sickn...

This paper describes a topological approach for simplifying continuous functions defined on volumetric domains. The Morse-Smale complex provides a segmentation of the domain into monotonic regions having uniform gradient flow behavior. We present a combinatorial algorithm that simplifies the Morse-Smale complex by repeated application of two atomic operations that removes pairs of critical poin...

Abstra(:t: Requirements engineering, object-oriented design, component-based technology, software architecture: trendy terms that bring a lot of excitement to the research community but have little impact on the industrial software development practice. W hy does the industry remain practically untouched by the benefits that a thorough system design promises to deliver, and the sortand long-ter...

Morgagni hernias are a rare form of congenital diaphragmatic hernias, thus there is paucity in literature about the diagnosis and management of the condition. We report an 83-year-old woman who presented with vomiting and a metabolic acidosis with a previous computed tomography diagnosis of Bochdalek's hernia. Diagnostic laparoscopy revealed a Morgagni hernia containing transverse colon, greate...

For the digital watermarking patchwork algorithm originally given by Bender et al., this paper proposes two improvements applicable to audio watermarking. First, the watermark embedding strength is psychoacoustically adapted, using the Bark frequency scale. Second, whereas previous approaches leave the samples that do not correspond to the data untouched, in this paper, these are modified to re...

While finding our way in using human faces as a biometric measure, it's common to tackle with significant problems such as illumination, pose variation and facial hair. But, dealing with the aging process of an individual had been generally overlooked until recently. This relatively untouched playground may enable us more insight while tackling with the problems. This article puts the phenomeno...

The web has moved from a minority interest tool to one of the most heavily used platforms for publication. Despite originally being designed by and for academics, it has left academic publishing largely untouched; most papers are available on-line, but in PDF and are most easily read once printed. Here, we describe our experiments with using commodity web technology to replace the existing publ...

The financial industry has recently seen a push away from structured products and towards transparency. The trend is to decompose products, such that customers understand each component as well as its price. Yet the enormous annuity market combining investment and longevity has been almost untouched by this development. We suggest a simple decomposed annuity structure that enables cost transpar...