BACKGROUND There is a paucity of data on lung physiology in late-preterm children, who may be exposed to a risk of decline in lung function during childhood. In this study, we evaluated lung function in preschool children born late preterm using impulse oscillometry (IOS), and compared the results with those obtained in healthy term-born children. METHODS Children between 3 and 7 years of age...

PURPOSE Corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) is a treatment strategy used in keratoconic eyes. Evaluation of long-term changes of higher-order aberrations (HOAs) after CXL is useful in understanding the efficacy of this procedure in improving optical, refractive, and visual acuity. This study aims to investigate the long-term effect of CXL on ocular HOA in patients with progressive keratoconus ...

We study the interplay between discrete quantum symmetries at certain points in the moduli space of Calabi-Yau compactifications, and the associated identities that the geometric realization of D-brane monodromies must satisfy. We show that in a wide class of examples, both local and compact, the monodromy identities in question always follow from a single mathematical statement. One of the sim...

A concept of CP-violating T,P-odd permanent molecular magnetic moments CP is introduced. We relate the moments to the electric dipole moment of electron eEDM and estimate CP for several diamagnetic polar molecules. The moments exhibit a steep, Z5, scaling with the nuclear charge Z of the heavier molecular constituent. A measurement of the CP-violating magnetization of a polarized sample of heav...

We construct several geometric representatives for the C/Zm fractional branes on either a partially or the completely resolved orbifold. In the process we use large radius and conifold-type monodromies, and provide a strong consistency check. In particular, for C/Z5 we give three different sets of geometric representatives. We also find the explicit Seiberg-duality, in the Berenstein-Douglas se...

Introdução: a técnica de inspiração máxima sustentada (IMS) é um padrão ventilatório utilizado em diversas populações, inclusive indivíduos com fibrose cística (FC), contudo, são escassos os estudos que avaliam o impacto dessa intervenção parâmetros respiratórios população. Objetivo: avaliar mecânica respiratória crianças/adolescentes FC antes e imediatamente após IMS. M...

upper and lower joins are then defined similarly to Definition 3.7 (upper and lower join). te l-0 09 25 72 2, v er si on 1 8 Ja n 20 14 3.2. AN OPTIMAL ALGORITHM FOR GBTS 67 Definition 3.26 (Abstract upper/lower join) Let P1 and P2 be two abstract patterns, a link of P2 with P1. The abstract upper (resp. lower) join of P1 (resp. P2) w.r.t. ( ,P2) (resp. ( ,P1)), is the set of elementary abstrac...