Cataract surgery is the most common elective operation performed worldwide (1, 2). The development of new technologies and new surgical techniques and materials lead to less invasive and day care procedures. This in turn encouraged an evolution on the ophthalmic anesthetic strategies, rendering general anesthesia largely unnecessary, so that local techniques have become preferred for cataract s...

An 11-item questionnaire was mailed to 891 consultant members of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) to audit compliance with RCOphth guidelines for perioperative management of anticoagulated patients having cataract surgery. Four hundred ninety-nine questionnaires were analyzed. The results showed that 29.5% of respondents adhered to all aspects of RCOphth guidelines; that is, they...

We present a case of a deep full thickness burn from topical formic acid. Our patient developed a burn over her proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) of her finger, secondary to inappropriate application of an anti-wart treatment. The burn required extensive deridement, and the resultant defect was reconstructed using a subcutaneous flap from the adjacent finger (a reverse cross finger flap). S...

The work is an encyclopaedic attempt to elucidate on a scientific and pathological basis the nature and treatment of the congerie of painful complaints, usually lumped together under the name " chronic rheumatism." It is divided, in the author's words, "into three main sections, (1) Infective or toxic arthritis ; (2) Traumatic varieties of fibrositis; (3) Static disorders falsely yclept rheumat...

We suggest an unsupervised approach to template induction for information extraction, through detecting sub-topics and themes that cut across the documents of a topical corpus. We introduce a new method – cross component clustering – that simultaneously clusters the components forming our setting, each of which consists of the words of a single article. Our algorithm is derived from the Informa...

Volume 95 (2009) of the Journal of Parasitology represented a significant benchmark in the history of paleoparasitology when it received on the cover formal recognition as a topical area for publication. This retrospective examination chronicles the emergence of paleoparasitology, from its origins as an adjunct contribution to the study of prehistoric human populations to its modern expression ...

Dental Update – May 2000 165 Abstract: As both humans and fungi are eukaryotic organisms, antifungal agents affect their cellular metabolism. Thus, a relatively few antifungals with minimal toxicity and side-efects are available compared with a plethora of antibacterials. These agents currently prescribed in dentistry belong to two major groups, the polyenes (nystatin and amphotericin B) and th...

bioassays were conducted to assess the contact toxicity of two plant essential oils against adults of sitophilus granarius (l.) and tribolium confusum jacquelin du val. essential oils were extracted from seeds of carum copticum l. and cuminum cyminum l. contact toxicity was assessed by topical application and adult mortality was counted 1, 2, 6 and 24 h after exposure. bioassays were carried ou...

the topical delivery of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) such as ibuprofen has been explored as a potential method of avoiding the first pass effects and the gastric irritation, which may occur when used orally. ibuprofen is formulated into many topical preparations to reduce the adverse effects and simultaneously avoid the hepatic first-pass metabolism as well. however, it is dif...

We use a combined generalized spectroscopic ellipsometry and density functional theory approach to determine analyze the anisotropic dielectric functions of an α-Ga2O3 thin film. The sample is grown epitaxially by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy on m-plane sapphire. Generalized data from multiple azimuths in spectral range 0.73 eV 8.75 are simultaneously analyzed. Density used calculate ...