A double blind, prospective study was undertaken to compare aqueous humour penetration of topical 0.3% norfloxacin and 0.3% ciprofloxacin and their effect upon normal eyelid flora in 39 patients undergoing cataract surgery. Lid swabs were taken before and after six 1 hourly applications of single drops of ciprofloxacin or norfloxacin given before surgery. Aqueous humour was aspirated at surgery...

This article analyses the social reaction to Francisco Franco’s exhumation from his burial place in Valley of Fallen at end 2019. decision was taken by virtue compliance with so-called Historical Memory Law approved 2007 and generated a great debate. Apart opinions favour against that coming political spectrum left right, respectively, we observed new attitude, humour, present tweets memes. By ...

BACKGROUND /aim: Endothelin 1 (ET-1) is considered the most potent vasoconstrictor in the body and the eye. This molecule may play a significant role in the pathobiology of exfoliation syndrome (XFS), a disorder characterised by a progressive iris vasculopathy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the concentration of ET-1 in the aqueous humour of cataract patients with and without XFS....

Laughter is an instinctive activity that facilitates social communication and can be used to enrich the education system. Taking into consideration that children are, by their nature, visually oriented, the humour and empathy of the comic strip make it an appropriate methodological instrument for the acquisition of new learning materials. The popular comic strip Alan Ford consolidates realist e...

Excellent and effective teaching demands a host of devices, techniques and strategies not only to achieve cross critical outcomes, but because variety, itself, is a desideratum. One teaching instrument which perhaps is too seldom used, is the economics cartoon. To encourage this development, learning activities become important. This paper investigates why Economics subject didactics students p...

This article presents an innovative reading of humour within the classic Spanish postwar novel, El Jarama by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (1955), typically deemed dispassionate, solemn, and deadly serious. Grounding its interpretation in Humour Studies, it explores undercurrents desolate, almost deliberately non-funny amusement that encourage stifled laughter from bleak situations, before immediatel...