Physiological changes during pregnancy involve changes to the interior of the eye and to the outer ocular surface. Among the pathological alterations, several are related to gestational hypertension, such as, central serous retinopathy and occlusive vascular diseases, in addition to the evolution of preexisting pathologies. Likewise, the administration of ocular drugs, depending on the route, m...

We use the emergent field of Complex Networks to analyze the network of scientific collaborations between entities (universities, research organizations, industry related companies,...) which collaborate in the context of the so-called Framework Programme. We demonstrate here that it is a scale–free network with an accelerated growth, which implies that the creation of new collaborations is enc...

The calcification of knee ligaments is a finding noted only in a handful of case reports. The finding of an anterior cruciate ligament calcification has been reported once in the literature. Comparable studies involving the posterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament and an ossicle within the anterior cruciate ligament are likewise discussed in reports of symptomatic patients. We re...

1.1.1 Two Conflicting Trends Two recent and conflicting trends in Internet applications motivate the discussion in this work: video traffic becoming dominant, and usage-based pricing becoming prevalent. Video traffic becoming dominant: Video consumption is on the rise. For example, Cisco predicts that 70% of all mobile traffic will be from video alone by 2016 [1]. Likewise, wireline traffic is ...

Fixation of an osteochondral fracture after acute patellar dislocation is an infrequent form of treatment. Likewise, the location of this fragment in the lateral region of the lateral femoral condyle, functioning as a free body, is uncommon. The aim of this study was to present a case of osteochondral fracture of the patella at an unusual site, along with the therapy used and the clinical follo...

Results: The XRCC1 Arg399Gln genotype did not exhibit any significant correlation with the susceptibility of BC (odds ratio [OR]=1.45, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.60-3.51) (p=0.47). Likewise, XRCC3 M241T genotype did not show significant correlation with BC (OR=2.02, 95% CI: 0.50-8.21) (p=0.40). However, distribution of XRCC3-5’UTR (rs1799794 A/G) genotype showed a significant difference be...

A genetic sequence is simply a way of representing DNA, RNA, and proteins by a character string, an unbroken sequence of letters. A sequence has a finite length and contains only those characters belonging to a specified alphabet. An alphabet is a set of allowable characters. DNA uses a 4-character alphabet that consists of {A,C,G,T}. Likewise RNA uses a 4-character alphabet {A,C,G,U}. Proteins...

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often suffer other concomitant diseases that negatively impact their prognosis and health status [1]. However, it is unclear if they are causally related to COPD or result from shared risk factors, such as ageing, smoking and/or inactivity [2]. Likewise, the precise underlying molecular mechanisms are also unclear [3], hence limiting ta...

Derivatives and normals of rational Bézier curves and surface patches are discussed. A nonuniformly scaled hodograph of a degree m × n tensor-product rational surface, which provides correct derivative direction but not magnitude, can be written as a degree (2m−2) × 2n or 2m× (2n−2) vector function in polynomial Bézier form. Likewise, the scaled normal direction is degree (3m−2)× (3n−2). Effici...

Effective verification and validation are central to medical device software development and are essential for regulatory approval. Although guidance is available in multiple standards in the medical device software domain, it is difficult for the manufacturer to implement as there is no consolidated view of this information. Likewise, the standards and guidance documents do not consider proces...