PURPOSE To present the approach of using a scanning slit refractometer (the ARK 10000) in conjunction with a corneal topography system to guide customized corneal ablation. This diagnostic system is coupled with the Nidek EC-5000 system which combines scanning slit and a scanning small area ablation (1.0 mm) to perform a customized ablation. METHODS The ARK 10000 diagnostic system which conta...

Topiramate is a newer anticonvulsant used to treat epilepsy, migraines, bipolar disorder, posttraumatic stress, and other conditions. Serum topiramate concentrations are measured to determine optimal levels, address therapeutic failure or drug–drug interactions, and assess compliance. Two high-throughput assays for serum topiramate measurement were compared: the Seradyn fluorescence polarizatio...

Papaya propagation from seeds has a major problem, namely seed germination takes relatively long time. Experiments to determine the effect of gibberellin and cow bio urine concentrations on growth papaya seedlings were carried out at Main Horticultural Seed Center Agriculture Livestock Service Office Buleleng Regency with an altitude ± 200 m above sea level. The experiment used factorial random...

Background: Active immunization with gonadotropin releasing hormone conjugate (GnRH-BSA) manipulates the fertility axis and thus alters the reproductive cyclicity, serum estradiol and progesterone levels. While the application of Kamdhenu ark increases the efficacy of GnRH-BSA. Objective: This experimental investigation is aimed to evaluate the modulatory effects on estrous cycle, serum estradi...

Due to declining dairy cow fertility rates, there is great interest in developing tools for oestrus detection. Compounds in the volatile profile of oestrous cows are suggested as oestrus-specific, but consistent results have not been presented. Certain haematophagous arthropods can discriminate stages of the mammalian reproductive cycle based on host volatiles. This study investigated whether t...

In this paper, we review the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Scenarios and their assumptions on biodiversity conservation, using a framework based on the cultural theory (CT) perspectives. We explored an adaptation of the CT typology and the significance of some underrepresented worldviews for discussions on conservation in a changing world. The...

For a local field K with positive residue characteristic p, we introduce, in the first part of this paper, a refinement bArK of the classical Artin distribution ArK . It takes values in cyclotomic extensions of Q which are unramified at p, and it bisects ArK in the sense that ArK is equal to the sum of bArK and its conjugate distribution. Compared with 12ArK , the bisection bArK provides a high...