PURPOSE Floppy eyelid syndrome (FES) presents nonspecific ocular surface irritation. The hypothesis for the current study was that one contributing factor is the abnormality in tear film dynamics. METHODS Sixteen patients with FES were consecutively examined. Tear film dynamics were evaluated by kinetic tear interference images, infrared thermometry, water evaporation rate, tear break-up time...

PURPOSE Dry eye is often characterized by increased tear evaporation due to poor tear film quality, especially of the lipid component of the tear film. Using an environmental chamber to induce environmental stress, this study compared the effect of three lubricant eye drops on various aspects of tear physiology in a crossover design (evaporation was the principal outcome measure). METHODS Thr...

The naive calculation of black hole evaporation makes the thermal emission depend on the arbitrary high frequency behaviour of the theory where the theory is certainly wrong. Using the sonic analog to black holes– dumb holes– I show numerically that a change in the dispersion relation at high frequencies does not seem to alter the evaporation process, lending weight to the reality of the black ...

Evaporation-induced self-assemblies (EISAs) with various morphologies were selectively fabricated by drying a solution containing polypyrrole nanoparticles. The morphogenesis of EISAs was strongly dependent upon the solvent evaporation rate and the nanoparticle concentration. In the case of fast evaporation, 2-D dendrites or pseudo 1-D dendrites were observed. When the liquid medium evaporated ...

Leclerc, M.Y., Thurtell, G.W. and Gillespie, T.J., 1985. Laboratory simulation of evaporation of water droplets on artificial soybean leaves. Agric. For. Meteorol., 36: 105-111. The evaporation from water droplets on artificial soybean leaves was modelled using an energy balance. Observations showed that while droplets were hemispherical initially, they then flattened keeping the base area virt...