To evaluate residual spatial vision deficits in treated amblyopia, we recruited five clinically treated amblyopes (mean age=10.6 years). Contrast sensitivity functions (CSF) in both the previously amblyopic eyes (pAE; visual acuity=0.944+/-0.019 MAR) and fellow eyes (pFE; visual acuity=0.936+/-0.021 MAR) were measured using a standard psychophysical procedure for all the subjects. The results i...

This paper presents a generalization of standard effect systems that we call contextual effects. A traditional effect system computes the effect of an expression e. Our system additionally computes the effects of the computational context in which e occurs. More specifically, we compute the effect of the computation that has already occurred (the prior effect) and the effect of the computation ...

A plaid is a combination of two gratings whose orientations are orthogonal to each other with the same or similar contrasts. We used plaid patterns as stimuli to investigate the mechanisms underlying the detection of a plaid to understand how the visual system combines information from orientation-selective channels. We used a masking paradigm in which an observer was required to detect a targe...

A travel time prediction algorithm scalable to large freeway networks with many nodes with arbitrary travel routes is proposed. Instead of constructing separate predictors for individual routes, it first predicts the whole future space-time field of travel times and then traverses the required subsection of the predicted travel time field to compute the travel time estimate for the requested ro...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is the most common risk factor for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and has been associated with increased risk of death. In order to better understand the influence of diabetes on outcomes in hemodialysis, we examine the risk of death of diabetic participants in the HEMODIALYSIS (HEMO) study. METHODS In the HEMO study, 823 (44.6%) participants were classified as diabetic. U...

INTRODUCTION: Keeping quality of meat and meat related food hazard relates to microbes present in the meat during processing or storage. The poultry slaughtered and dressed under Chitwan conditions carrying high initial contamination would be present in meat as inherent contamination in the finished products. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 26 fresh broiler meat sampl...

Transgenic Nicotiana tabacum plants expressing Aspergillus niger b-glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.21) gene (BGL1) in different subcellular compartments [cell wall (Tcw), endoplasmic reticulum (Ter), and vacuole (Tvc)] were analyzed to study the effects of BGL1 localization on plant growth and plant–insect interaction. Transgenic and non-transgenic plants were grown and characterized in a greenhouse with...

PURPOSE This study examined and compared levels of salivary bacteria which produced volatile sulfur compounds (VSC) in young children with and without oral malodor. METHODS Clinic populations of children aged two to seven years, whose parents presented with an unsolicited major complaint of oral malodor in their child (OM+), or aged-matched controls in whom oral malodor was not detected by pa...

Pattern contrast thresholds for vertical Gabor patterns were measured on pattern pedestals that were vertical or horizontal. Contrast of the pedestal was varied to measure the function relating target contrast threshold to pedestal contrast (TvC function). TvC functions were measured without an adaptor and after adaptation to vertical, horizontal and plaid patterns. For a pedestal with the same...