OBJECTIVES To study the surgical anatomy and approaches of intracranial oculomotor nerve (OMN) and inferior obliquus (IO), and the methods of their electrode implantation in dogs. METHODS The research was performed on 30 adult beagle dogs at Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical College, Shanghai, China from November 2007 to August 2008. All animals were subjected to a right transfrontotempera...

[1] In recent years, the Indian Ocean (IO) has been discovered to have a much larger impact on climate variability than previously thought. This paper reviews climate phenomena and processes in which the IO is, or appears to be, actively involved. We begin with an update of the IO mean circulation and monsoon system. It is followed by reviews of ocean/atmosphere phenomenon at intraseasonal, int...

This paper describes an integrated mobile robotic system dubbed the intelligent observer (IO). The IO is a mobile robot which moves through an environment (such as an o ce building or a factory) while autonomously observing moving targets selected by a human operator. The robot carries one or more cameras which allow it to track objects while at the same time sensing its own location. It intera...

Military trauma produces predominantly blast and fragmentation injury, commonly resulting in haemorrhagic shock. Injury patterns to limbs are such that the conventional sites for venous cannulation may be unsuitable. The EZ-IO (Vidacare, San Antonio) system is one of a number of novel products designed for intraosseous (IO) access in adults or children. In three months of combat casualty care i...

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System. Observations by instruments on the Galileo spacecraft and on telescopes atop Maunakea in Hawai'i indicate that lava flows on Io are surprisingly hot, over 1200 oC and possibly as much as 1300 oC; a few areas might have lava flows as hot as 1500 oC. Such high temperatures imply that the lava flows are composed of rock th...

We present a new theory of the four Galilean satellites Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. This theory aims to deliver highly accurate ephemerides able to represent the Galilean satellites’ motion over several centuries. It is based on the numerical integration of elaborated equations of motion. This first paper describes and tests many usually neglected perturbations. We are then able to retai...

Background: The objective of the current study was to determine the effect of activation of injected oocytes with dithiothreitol on development of ovine embryos derived from in vitro-matured oocytes and intracytoplasmic sperm.The injected oocytes with non-treated sperm were activated with 1) ionomycin (Io) + 6-dimethylaminopurine (6-DMAP) 2) DTT, 3) DTT+ ionomycin (I)+6-DMAP. Materials and Meth...