We modified a 2-bend cystotome for continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC) in manual or phacoemulsification cataract surgery to improve the safety and ease of performance. A 26G needle was converted into a cystotome with 3 bends. In this retrospective study, the performance of modified 3-bend cystotome was compared with conventional 2-bend cystotome. During cataract surgery, in the 3-bend cy...

In this work, using the scattering matrix method, we have investigated the transmission coefficients and the thermal conductivity in a double-bend waveguide structure. The transmission coefficients show strong resonances due to the scattering in the midsection of a double-bend structure; the positions and the widths of the resonance peaks are determined by the dimensions of the midsection of th...

A simultaneous embedding with fixed edges (SEFE) of two planar graphs R and B is a pair of plane drawings of R and B that coincide when restricted to the common vertices and edges of R and B. We show that whenever R and B admit a SEFE, they also admit a SEFE in which every edge is a polygonal curve with few bends and every pair of edges has few crossings. Specifically: (1) if R and B are trees ...

A three-dimensional grid-drawing of a graph represents the vertices by distinct points in Z (called grid-points), and represents each edge as a polyline between its endpoints with bends (if any) also at gridpoints, such that distinct edges only intersect at common endpoints, and each edge only intersects a vertex that is an endpoint of that edge. This topic has been previously studied in [1–5]....

A simple and selective new technique for atomic hydrogen flux measurements in a plasma environment is introduced demonstrated this work. This works by measuring the etching rate of an amorphous carbon film translating to incoming radical through well-defined etch yield per radical. Ions present have much higher than radicals do. For that reason, suppression ion toward crucial ensure observed do...

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The restriction of Pipe, a potential glycosaminoglycan-modifying enzyme, to ventral follicle cells of the egg chamber is essential for dorsoventral axis formation in the Drosophila embryo. pipe repression depends on the TGFalpha-like ligand Gurken, which activates the Drosophila EGF receptor in dorsal follicle cells. An analysis of Raf mutant clones shows that EGF signalling is required cell-au...

We report here the locations of curved DNA in the human erythropoietin receptor gene. A total of 13 DNA bend sites were mapped by circular permutation assays, appearing at an average interval of 651.2+/-214.6 (S.D.) in the 8-kb region. The bend centers in these 13 bend sites were confirmed by oligonucleotide-based assays where most of these centers had bend angles higher than that shown by (AAA...