The haptic processing of vertical, horizontal, 45 degrees and 135 degrees oblique orientations was studied in blindfolded sighted adults in an exploration-reproduction task. The purpose was to determine whether the variations of the memorization conditions between the exploration and reproduction phases would influence the global performance and the oblique effect (lower performance in oblique ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the outcome of strabismus surgery for congenital superior oblique palsy (SOP) in relation to correction of head tilt and hypertropia. The cohort of patients mainly involved very young children. This is the first study to use a standardized instrument to objectively measure torticollis before and after surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS A non-comparative interventional case ser...

We have examined the dependence of rotational acuity on the orientation bandwidth of a stimulus using two-dimensional, band-pass filtered, spatial noise. Stimuli had a bandwidth of 0.5 octave of spatial frequency, centred at 5.0 cyc/deg, and an orientation bandwidth that covered the range from 0.0 to 25.0 deg. Thresholds were obtained on one principal (vertical), and one oblique axis (45 deg). ...

Vertical saccadic velocities in 10 patients who had unilateral superior oblique muscle palsy and 14 normal subjects were measured with the magnetic scleral search coil. The authors sought to determine whether downward saccades in patients who had superior oblique palsy are slow. Peak velocities of 10 degrees and 20 degrees saccades performed in the superior and inferior fields of the orbit, and...

Oblique dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons predominate in stratum radiatum and receive approximately 80% of the synaptic input from Schaffer collaterals. Despite this fact, most of our understanding of dendritic signal processing in these neurons comes from studies of the main apical dendrite. Using a combination of Ca2+ imaging and whole-cell recording techniques in rat hippocampal slices, we ...

The oblique detonation, a combustion process initiated by an oblique shock, arises in most supersonic combustion applications including, most notably, the ram accelerator and the oblique detonation wave engine. Additionally, it is the generic two-dimensional compressible shocked reacting flow; consequently, its basic research value is inherent. The outstanding theoretical questions are also the...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate postoperative intraocular pressure (IOP) in cases of silicone oil (SO) removal when using 25-gauge transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy (TSV) with oblique incisions. METHODS We enrolled ten consecutive eyes with SO removal (SO group) and eleven consecutive eyes with idiopathic epiretinal membrane (ERM) as the initial vitrectomy (ERM g...

We describe a patient with right hemisphere damage affected by mild left visuo-spatial neglect and constructional apraxia. During the rehabilitation, he failed to draw a draught-board using horizontal and vertical trajectories, but he performed it successfully using oblique trajectories. These observations suggested an impairment of vertical/horizontal spatial coordinates system. In copying tas...

Oblique photography technology as an excellent method for 3-D city model construction has brought itself to large-scale recognition and undeniable high social status. Tilt and vertical images with the high overlaps and different visual angles can produce a large number of dense matching point clouds data with spectral information. This paper presents a method of buildings reconstruction with st...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to determine whether forced expiration is correlated with abdominal muscle thickness. [Subjects] Twenty-three healthy male volunteers participated in this study. [Methods] The peak expiratory flow (PEF) was obtained using a peak flow meter with subjects in the sitting position. The thicknesses of the right rectus abdominis, external oblique, internal obli...