AIM To evaluate the relation between postconceptional age and birth weight with keratometric values in preterm and full term infants. METHODS A prospective cross sectional study was performed. The cohort included 99 infants (198 eyes) admitted to the Neonatal and Neonatal Intensive Care Units at Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel from February to September 2002. Keratometry in the ...

Visual performance is heterogeneous at isoeccentric locations; it is better on the horizontal than on the vertical meridian and worse at the upper than at the lower region of the vertical meridian (Carrasco, Talgar, & Cameron, 2001; Talgar & Carrasco, 2002). It is unknown whether these performance inhomogeneities are also present in spatial frequency tasks and whether asymmetries present during...

Ling Yin, xianglan Jin, Tong Li Acupuncture,originated in China more than 3000 years ago, is an important component of Traditional Chinese Medicine and possesses a long-standing history of development. In the ancient medicine, it was originally used as an important approach for medical treatment, and later on gradually developed into a special subject with rich therapeutic experiences and profo...

The appearance of objects generally does not change with changes in the size of their retinal image that occur as the distance from the observer increases or decreases. Contrast constancy ensures this invariance for suprathreshold image features, but fully robust size invariance also requires invariance at threshold, so that near-threshold image features do not appear or disappear with distance...

PURPOSE To compare central corneal thickness (CCT), anterior chamber depth (ACD), and keratometry (K) readings measured using optical low-coherence reflectometry (OLCR) biometry and high-resolution rotating Scheimpflug photography. SETTING Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China. DESIGN Comparative case series. METHODS The CCT, ACD endothelium to lens, ACD epithelium to le...

This article, examining the qualia roles retrieved from the metaphorically/metonymically used body part terms in news texts, addresses the similarities and differences of such uses in Taiwan and China. Analyzing the behavior of xue ‘blood’ and ‘bone’, two corporeal terms with relatively high visibilities compared with rou ‘flesh’ and mai ‘meridian’ (Duann and Huang 2015) in the Chinese Gigaword...

Background. Circulation system, immunity system, and nervous system have a close relationship with meridian phenomen. However, there is still lack of the results of dynamic changes of these structures in acupoint. The aim of this study is to explore the interrelationship by composite staining techniques. Methodology/Principal Findings. Twenty rats were separated into electroacupuncture group (E...