Anesthesiology, V 125 • No 3 596 September 2016 A double modified nasopharyngeal airway connected to a breathing circuit to assist ventilation could be a great rescue airway technique. This setup provides unobstructed spontaneous ventilation, end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring, continuous positive airway pressure, and assisted ventilation as needed.1 A modif...

Background and Objective: Health Information Technology helps individuals prevent COVID-19. Many information technology applications have been developed to prevent Coronavirus infection globally; however, the quality level of these applications is uncertain. This study aims to evaluate the usability of the Mask mobile application, which is designed to fight COVID-19. Materials and Methods: The...

Spontaneous eye blink rate was assessed in cynomolgus monkeys treated intramuscularly with the high-efficacy dopamine (DA) agonists, (-)-apomorphine, naxagolide, PD 128,907, 2-(N-phenylethyl-N-propyl)amino-5-hydroxytetralin (+/-)-PPHT, quinpirole, SKF 81297 and SKF 82958; the low-efficacy DA agonists, (-)-3-PPP, roxindole, SDZ 208-912, SKF 75670 and terguride; and the indirect DA agonists, d-am...

PURPOSE Perceptual completion can mask the presence of physiological and pathologic retinal scotomas. This psychophysical study used a spatial alignment task to examine the processes underlying this perceptual completion. Similarities between the completion of pathologic and physiological scotomas would be consistent with large-scale reorganization of the visual system in eye disease METHODS ...

This study aimed to evaluate changes in lacrimation and intraocular pressure (IOP) in dogs with unilateral corneal ulceration using the Schirmer tear test (STT) and rebound (TonoVet®) tonometry. IOP and STT values were recorded in both ulcerated and non-ulcerated (control) eyes of 100 dogs diagnosed with unilateral corneal ulceration. Dogs presented with other ocular conditions as their primary...

OBJECTIVES To explore chimney sweeping work tasks, chimney sweeps' use of protective equipment, and type of fuel used by clients, over time. Further, to assess work-relatedness of current eye and airway symptoms. METHODS In a cross-sectional study in 2011, male Swedish chimney sweeps (n = 483; age 21-69 years) answered a questionnaire about their occupational history and eye and airway sympto...

Around the time of execution of an eye movement, participants systematically misperceive the spatial location of briefly flashed visual stimuli. This phenomenon, known as perisaccadic mislocalization, is thought to involve an active process that takes into account the motor plan (efference copy) of the upcoming saccade. While it has been proposed that the motor system anticipates and informs th...

This paper describes VTalk, a system for synthesizing text-to-audiovisual speech (TTAVS), where the input text is converted into an audiovisual speech stream incorporating the head and eye movements. It is an image-based system, where the face is modeled using a set of images of a human subject. A concatination of visemes –the corresponding lip shapes for phonemes— can be used for modeling visu...

Reverse subdivision aims at constructing a coarser representation of an object given by a fine polygon mesh. In this paper, we first derive a mask for reverse Loop subdivision that can be applied to both regular and extraordinary vertices. The mask is parameterized, and thus can also be used in reversing variants of Loop subdivision, such as those proposed by Warren and Litke. We apply this mas...

Clinical-grade wearable sleep monitoring is a challenging problem since it requires concurrently brain activity, eye movement, muscle cardio-respiratory features, and gross body movements. This multiple sensors to be worn at different locations as well uncomfortable adhesives discrete electronic components placed on the head. As result, existing wearables either compromise comfort or accuracy i...