purpose: to compare the optical properties of hydrophilic and hydrophobic intraocular lenses (iols) containing uv-absorber and to determine their chemical composition. methods: optical properties of different foldable hydrophilic and hydrophobic as well as non-foldable hydrophobic polymethylmetacrylate (pmma) iols were evaluated in three powers of 15, 22 and 25 diopters. optical properties were...

Census counts are subject to different types of nonsampling errors. One of these main errors is coverage error. Undercount and overcount are two types of coverage error. Undercount usually occurs more than the other, thus net undercount estimation is important. There are various methods for estimating the coverage error in censuses. One of these methods is dual system (DS) that usually uses dat...

Stochastic methods are commonly used for dependability evaluation. In the mid 1970’s, stochastic evaluation was proposed for combined performance/dependability evaluation, called performability evaluation. Extending reliability evaluation to include performance related behaviors presented new challenges, most notably due to the large difference in time scale of performanceand dependability-rela...

This paper introduces Access/CPN 2.0, which extends Access/CPN with high-level primitives for interacting with coloured Petri net (CPN) models in Java programs. The primitives allow Java programs to monitor and interact with places and transitions during execution, and embed entire programs as subpages of CPN models or embed CPN models as parts of programs. This facilitates building environment...

In our previous work, we considered, on the one hand, the predicate-based unfolding of a business process’s conditional control flow and, on the other hand, the introduction of assertions for the contents of messages exchanged between processes. In this paper, we will sketch how both approaches can be smoothly combined for the automated provisioning of precise low-level Petri net models of busi...

Background: Assessment of AMH cut-off levels in serum and in follicle fluid (FF) for patients with (group 2, n=34) and without (group1, n= 96) endocrinological risk factors, such as ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), is clinically useful in optimising the treatment protocol. Materials and Methods: AMH was analysed in serum and FF of 130 infertile pati...

Background: Genomic instability is one of primary causes for malignant cell transformation. In this study induced genomic instability expressed as micronuclei in breast cancer (BC) patients with different stages of the disease compared with their unaffected first degree relatives (FDR) and normal unrelated controls was investigated. Materials and Methods: The background and net micronucleus fre...