Purpose: To compare retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) profile in subjects with myopia and emmetropia using GDx variable corneal compensator (VCC) Methods: Besides ophthalmologic standard examination (refraction, visual acuity and slit-lamp examination, applanation tonometry, and funduscopy), perimetry and scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) were performed. 171 healthy age-matched subjects with low ...

A signalling molecularly imprinted polymer was synthesised for easy detection of tamoxifen and its metabolites. 6-Vinylcoumarin-4-carboxylic acid (VCC) was synthesised from 4-bromophenol to give a fluorescent monomer, designed to switch off upon binding of tamoxifen. Clomiphene, a chlorinated analogue, was used as the template for the imprinting, and its ability to quench the coumarin fluoresce...

This paper presents the NU-NAIST voice conversion (VC) system for the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016 (VCC 2016) developed by a joint team of Nagoya University and Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Statistical VC based on a Gaussian mixture model makes it possible to convert speaker identity of a source speaker’ voice into that of a target speaker by converting several speech parameters...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between blood pressure (BP) parameters in the habitual position and glaucomatous damage at initial presentation in patients with untreated normal tension glaucoma (NTG). METHODS Fifty-four eyes from 54 subjects diagnosed with NTG were consecutively enrolled. BP was measured with an automated ambulatory monitoring device in the habitual position during 2...

In the event of natural or man-made disasters, providing rapid situational awareness through video/image data collected at salient incident scenes is often critical to first responders. However, computer vision techniques that can process the media-rich and data-intensive content obtained from civilian smartphones or surveillance cameras require large amounts of computational resources or ancil...

Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) are potent cytolytic agents secreted by pathogenic bacteria that protect microbes against the cell-mediated immune system (by targeting phagocytic cells), disrupt epithelial barriers, and liberate materials necessary to sustain growth and colonization. Produced by gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria alike, PFTs are released as water-soluble monomeric or dimeric s...

PURPOSE To investigate systemic and ocular hemodynamic risk factors for glaucomatous damage in eyes with normal tension glaucoma (NTG). METHODS Each patient with diagnosed NTG underwent 24-hour monitoring of intraocular pressure (IOP) and blood pressure (BP), scanning laser polarimetry (GDx-VCC), and a Humphrey visual field (HVF) examination. Multivariate regression models were used to evalua...

In this paper, we present a semantic space partitioning (SSP) approach to the virtual camera composition problem. Virtual camera composition (VCC) consists in positioning a camera in a virtual world, such that the resulting image satisfies a set of visual cinematographic properties. Whereas most related works concentrate on numerically computing a unique camera position satisfying the problem, ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate morphological parameters of optic disc and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) examined with confocal laser tomography (HRT3) and laser polarimetry (GDx-VCC) in a normal population, and analyze correlations of these parameters with demographic variables. PATIENTS AND METHODS Cross-sectional study in the context of a glaucoma screening campaign in the primary care center of ...

We present a methodology for object-modular reasoning about hybrid system code using VCC, a deductive verifier for concurrent C code. We define in VCC an explicit time model, in which the passage of time must respect the invariants of certain timed objects. Fields that change automatically with changes to time are then defined as volatile fields with suitable invariants. We also define two type...