Myopic observers may not benefit to the same extent as emmetropes from adaptive optics (AO) correction in a visual acuity (VA) task. To investigate this, we measured AO-corrected VA in 10 low myopes and 9 emmetropes. Subjects were grouped by refractive error. Mean spherical equivalent refractive error was -2.73 D (SEM = 0.35) for the myopes and 0.04 D (SEM = 0.1) for the emmetropes. All subject...

Objective: To evaluate the incidence, treatment and clinical outcomes of tuberculous (TB) lymphadenitis at Penang General Hospital, Malaysia. Materials and Methods: Penang General Hospital is the referral center for all tuberculosis patients in the state of Penang. Patient records were reviewed to identify patients with confirmed diagnosis of TB lymphadenitis between January 2006 and December 2...

Purpose. To determine the intraocular levels of growth factors and cytokines in patients with various degrees of severity of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) using multiplex xMAP technology. Methods. A prospective cohort study of 61 eyes from 56 patients who were divided into 3 groups based on the severity of PDR. Patients in group number 1 are those who presented PDR with no need of re...

0017-9310/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.12.010 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 765 494 5705; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (I. Mud This paper discusses the challenges of using hydrogen fuel cells to power light-duty vehicles. Storing sufficient amounts of hydrogen to cover adequate travel distances before refueling is one of the more...

BACKGROUND The use of azathioprine (AZA) in dogs is limited by the development of hepatotoxicosis and cytopenias. HYPOTHESIS AND OBJECTIVES To characterize the observed incidence, timing, and risk factors for AZA hepatotoxicosis in dogs treated clinically, and to determine the relationship between the development of hepatotoxicosis and cytopenias. ANIMALS Fifty-two dogs treated with AZA wit...

0017-9310/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.04.028 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected], maa59@ URL: http://www.mohsenakbari.com (M. Akbari). This paper outlines a novel approximate model for determining the pressure drop of laminar, singlephase flow in slowly-varying microchannels of arbitrary cross-section based on the solu...

0017-9310/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.01.017 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 775 784 4986; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (F. Su Tyler), [email protected] (A.E. Childress). A fully coupled two-dimensional, numerical model that evaluates, for the first time, the effects of doublediffusive convection in the thermal performance and stabi...

We have derived the stellar atmospheric parameters, effective temperature T$_{eff}$, microturbulent velocity $\zeta$, surface gravity log g, and metallicity [Fe/H] for HE 0017+0055, 2144-1832, 2339-0837, HD 145777, CD-27 14351 from local thermodynamic equilibrium analyses using model atmospheres. Elemental abundances of C, N, $\alpha$-elements, iron-peak elements, several neutron-capture elemen...

BackgroundGranulomatous and lymphocytic interstitial lung disease (GLILD) is a life-threatening complication in patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), but the optimal treatment unknown.ObjectiveOur aim was to determine whether rituximab azathioprine or mycophenolate mofetil improves high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) chest scans and/or pulmonary function test results CVI...