OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence of structural and psychophysical abnormalities in normal eyes and eyes with glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON) and normal standard automated perimetry (SAP). METHODS Complete examination, SAP, short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP), frequency doubling technology (FDT), scanning laser polarimetry (GDx-VCC), and optical coherence tomography (OCT) of the...

Value co-creation (VCC) has gained momentum in recent years due to the dramatic growth of digital technology. There is an ever-growing surge academia and industry understand dimensions outcomes VCC through various platforms. However, there sparse literature on bottom pyramid (BoP) context, especially for technology-driven healthcare. Drawing service-dominant (S-D) logic consumer culture theory ...

This paper addresses the problem of dimensioning multi-service ATM networks, where each service is supported by a different logical network. In the traditional approach, logical networks are configured with end-to-end VPCs, which greatly simplifies VCC admission control. This approach does not explore resource sharing gains since an end-to-end VPC bandwidth is assigned to each VCC flow. In this...

Cohesive subgraph detection is an important graph problem that is widely applied in many application domains, such as social community detection, network visualization, and network topology analysis. Most of existing cohesive subgraph metrics can guarantee good structural properties but may cause the free-rider effect. Here, by free-rider effect, we mean that some irrelevant subgraphs are combi...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between optical coherence tomography (OCT) and scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) in measuring peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in glaucomatous eyes. METHODS Fifty glaucomatous eyes were evaluated in this study. Evaluations were analyzed two ways. First, parameters of the Stratus OCT (average thickness, superior/inferior average) a...

PURPOSE To compare optic disk and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) imaging methods to discriminate eyes with early glaucoma from normal eyes. DESIGN Retrospective, cross-sectional study. METHODS In a tertiary care academic glaucoma center, 92 eyes of 92 subjects (46 with early perimetric open-angle glaucoma and 46 controls) were studied. Diagnostic performance of optical coherence tomograph...

Recently, Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) have attracted the attention of research communities, leading car manufacturers, and governments due to their potential applications and specific characteristics. Their research outcome was started with awareness between vehicles for collision avoidance and Internet access and then expanded to vehicular multimedia communications. Moreover, vehicles’ h...

BACKGROUND Of the 2007 Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) mutations, 202 have been assigned disease liability. California's racially diverse population, along with CFTR sequencing as part of newborn screening model, provides the opportunity to examine the phenotypes of children with uncategorized mutations to help inform disease liability and penetrance. METHODS We con...

We present an analysis of the globular cluster (GC) system of the nucleated dwarf elliptical galaxy VCC 1087 in the Virgo cluster, based on Keck/LRIS spectroscopy and archival Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging. We estimate VCC 1087 hosts a total population of 77 ± 19 GCs, which corresponds to a relatively high V -band specific frequency of 5.8 ± 1.4. The g 475− z 850 co...

We present an analysis of the globular cluster (GC) system of the nucleated dwarf elliptical galaxy VCC 1087 in the Virgo cluster, based on Keck/LRIS spectroscopy and archival Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging. We estimate VCC 1087 hosts a total population of 77 ± 19 GCs, which corresponds to a relatively high V -band specific frequency of 5.8 ± 1.4. The g 475− z 850 co...