PURPOSE To evaluate changes in anterior corneal topography and higher-order aberrations (HOA) after 14-days of rigid gas-permeable (RGP) contact lens (CL) wear in keratoconus subjects comparing two different fitting approaches. METHODS Thirty-one keratoconus subjects (50 eyes) without previous history of CL wear were recruited for the study. Subjects were randomly fitted to either an apical-t...

Trisomy G (Down's syndrome or "mongolism") is associated with multiple dental abnormalities (J. OSTER, Mongolism, Copenhagen: Danish Science Press, 1953). Teeth are frequently missing, all morphologic classes are involved, and the remaining teeth are characterized by size reduction (M. M. COHEN and A. WINER, I Dent Res 44:197-208, 1965; and M. M. COHEN, S. M. GARN, and M. A. GECIAUSKAS, J Dent ...

BACKGROUND Maximum performance and long-term stability of bilateral cochlear implants has become an important topic because there has been increasing numbers of recipients of bilateral cochlear implants. PURPOSE To determine the performance over time (up to 6yr) of subjects with simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants (CI+CI) on word recognition and localization. RESEARCH DESIGN Over-time ...

BACKGROUND A well-learned motor skill is characterized by the efficient activation of muscles that are involved in movement execution. However, it is unclear if practice-related changes in motor performance correlate with those in quantitative markers of muscle activity and if so, whether the association is different with respect to the investigated muscle (i.e., agonist and antagonist) and qua...

BACKGROUND The use of the mechanomyogram (MMG) which detects muscular vibrations generated by fused individual fiber twitches has been refined. The study addresses a comparison of the MMG and surface electromyogram (SEMG) in monitoring muscle fatigue. METHODS The SEMG and MMG were recorded simultaneously from the same territory of motor units in two muscles (Biceps, Brachioradialis) of the hu...

The quality of the image plays a vital role in image processing technique. It can be determined by the removal of the noisy pixels in the images. In this paper, we designed the hypergraph model for the representation of images. We use noise removal algorithm for digital images.This algorithm is based on the hypergraph model of images. This is used to detect the noisy pixels and thus can be remo...

OBJECTIVE Muscle fatigue is prevalent in acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions in which myofascial trigger points (MTPs) are involved. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of latent MTPs with muscle fatigue. DESIGN Intramuscular electromyographic (EMG) recordings were obtained from latent MTPs and non-MTPs together with surface EMG recordings from the upper tra...

Five concurrent eye activity measures were used to model fatigue-related changes in performance during a visual compensatory tracking task. Nine participants demonstrated considerable variations in performance level during two 53-min testing sessions in which continuous video-based eye activity measures were obtained. Using a trackball, participants were required to maneuver a target disk (dest...

The changes of higher-order aberrations (HOAs) after bilateral lateral rectus muscle recession were evaluated. Forty eyes of 20 children were enrolled and their wavefront information was assessed until postoperative 3 months. Even though the root mean square (RMS) of total aberration was not changed, the RMS of HOA was transiently increased at postoperative 1 week and returned to baseline level...

The relation between ventricular fibrillation threshold (VFT) and cardiac surface QRST area distributions was studied in eight pentobarbital-anesthetized dogs. Unipolar epicardial electrograms were recorded from 64 sites evenly distributed on the right and left ventricles. Localized areas of short repolarization properties were produced by directing five intensities of light onto the surface of...