purpose: to report bilateral terrien’s marginal degeneration, circumferential peripheral corneal ectasia and posterior polymorphous dystrophy in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. case report: a 24-year-old male patient, who was known case of rheumatoid arthritis from 8 years before, presented with decreased vision since four years ago. comprehensive ophthalmic eye exami-nation revealed bilat...

Circumferential bands of microtubules (MT) support the discoid shape of resting platelets and participate with the contractile apparatus in shape change and internal contraction following activation. Elucidation of interactions between the circumferential coils and proteins of the stable and contractile cytoskeleton is essential for understanding MT function in platelet physiology. A previous i...

We study two declarative programming languages namely Answer Set Programming (ASP) and Constraint Programming (CP) on four grid puzzles: Akari, Kakuro, Nurikabe, and Heyawake. We represent these problems in both formalisms in a systematic way and compute their solutions using ASP system Clasp and CP system Comet. We compare the ASP approach with the CP approach both from the point of view of kn...

A new species attributed to the genus Parvifuzia Guo & Ren, 2011, Parvifuzia peregrinasp. n., is described from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Daohugou Village, Inner Mongolia, China. This new species, with apex of wing almost reaching the end of the abdomen and forewing venation with 30-32 veins at margin, broadens the diversity of Parvifuzia. This new species, with strongly curv...

In cylindrical continua, hoop stresses are induced due to the circumferential failure. This mainly happens when the cylinder is subjected to mechanical loads which vary in the circumferential directions. On the other hand, radial stress is stress in the direction of or opposite to the central axis of a cylindrical body. In the present study, the influence of curvilinear anisotropy on the radial...

OBJECTIVES To determine the efficacy and optimal application parameters of circumferential compression to reduce external rotation-type pelvic fractures. DESIGN Biomechanical investigation on human cadaveric specimens. SETTING Biomechanics laboratory. INTERVENTION Partially stable and unstable external rotation injuries of the pelvic ring (OTA classification 61-B1 and 61-C1) were created ...

AIMS To examine myocardial deformation and rotation in patients with heart failure, and elucidate the underlying mechanisms that account for normal ejection fraction (EF) in patients with diastolic heart failure (DHF). METHODS AND RESULTS Fifty consecutive patients presenting with congestive heart failure (age: 58 +/- 16 years) underwent simultaneous right heart catheterization and transthora...

Proteins that in cells specifically bind to growing microtubule plus ends (+TIPs) are thought to play important roles in polarization of the cytoskeleton. However, most +TIPs do not show a bias of their microtubule-binding behavior toward different subcellular regions. Here, we examine the dynamics of the +TIP CLASP in migrating PtK1 epithelial cells. We find that, although CLASPs track microtu...

| Rules and frames are two knowledge representation schemes whose strengths and weakness are complementary to each other. Although several previous systems have attempted to integrate the two, few e orts have been made to incorporate the terminological knowledge of the frame-based systems into the rule-based paradigm. To achieve a deep integration of the two schemes, we have developed and imple...