Ultrasound measurement of ocular dimension is the chosen method for assessing axial length when determining dioptric power for intraocular lens. From the current results of 30 cases studied, the mean axial length ranges from 22 to 23 mm. Despite the limitation of the accuracy of the ultrasonic measurements with the 7.5 mHz transducer, the power of intraocular lens can. be determined satisfactor...

Purpose: This study examined the relationship between arithmetic word problem solving skill in first graders and 1) their oral language skill, 2) their nonverbal understanding of mathematical sets, and 3) rewording and gesture scaffolds designed to help the children access both the linguistic and the nonverbal content of Compare 6 word problems. Method: Two groups of first graders (15 with good...

Agent orientation is believed as an appropriate and powerful paradigm to develop complex systems. In order to engineer complex self-adaptive multi-agent systems, we present dynamic binding mechanism and an agentoriented methodology called ODAM that exploits the flexibility and high-level abstraction of agent orientation based on organization metaphors. The metamodel and modeling language of ODA...

background pompe disease is an inherited metabolic disorder characterized by α-glycosidase deficiency, which leads to lysosomal glycogen accumulation in many different tissues. the infantile form is the most severe with a rapidly fatal outcome, while the late onset form has a greater phenotypic variability, characterized by skeletal muscle dysfunction and early respiratory involvement. bone min...

To be able to compose and decompose software components at run time, some form of dynamic rebinding between components (or objects) is needed. In this paper, we identify basic properties of dynamic object (re)binding, and propose a class-based object calculus that gives precise meaning to these properties. We also define two example semantic properties that are characteristic for many concurren...

Letter to the Editor Better limited systematicity in hand than structural descriptions in the bush: A reply to Hummel Hummel's reference to " countless other ways " in which our model of structure processing is deficient, along with the claim that it cannot account for " any of the hallmarks of the human ability to perceive spatial relations, " exemplifies the tactic favored by the defenders of...

Programming languages which use dynamic identification for free variables (i.e., nonlocal referencest are generally implemented with a deep or shallow binding variable access strategy. In this paper, variable access through the binding environment is assumed to be desirable. Given this assumption, it is demonstrated that the act of assigning values to variables may yield unexpected results for ...

A programming language can provide much better support for interprocess communication than a library package can. Most message-passing languages limit this support to communication between the pieces of a single program, but this need not be the case. Lynx facilitates convenient, typesafe message passing not only within applications, but also between applications, and among distributed collecti...

Background and Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze our indications, surgical procedures, and clinical outcomes of patients undergoing reoperation after surgical correction of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). Methods: Thirty seven consecutive patients who underwent reoperation late after intra-cardiac repair of TOF within a period of 10 years were assessed. Results: The most co...

Background: Recognizing the causes of non-current receivables can well prevent the largest deviation in the allocation of resources as the blocking of resources in a particular sector and their lack of proper distribution. Inserting the condition of late payment penalty is one of the legal solutions to deal with late payment, which is included in banking contracts. In this article, the status o...