Background and aim The severity of joint disease in JIA can be quantified by counting the number of joints with swelling, tenderness/ pain on motion, and restricted motion, and by calculating, through these parameters, the number of active joints (NAJ). Alternatively, a global articular severity score (GASS) can be obtained by grading symptoms in each joint and summing the scores obtained in al...

Aims To determine whether the community treatment team (CTT) were meeting following three trust standards for patients receiving antipsychotic depot medication: 1. 100% of should have side effects monitored using a validated scoring system in form Glasgow Antipsychotic Side-effect Scale (GASS) once yearly. 2. had GASS completed ever. 3. with this document available full. Additionally adherence ...

BACKGROUND Macular edema (ME) is caused by abnormal retinal capillary permeability and has also been described as a postoperative complication of cataract surgery (Irvine-Gass syndrome). OBJECTIVE To present a patient with Irvine-Gass syndrome in the right eye complicated with a macular hole (MH) in the same eye and possible associations between these two entities. CASE REPORT A 72-year-old...

PURPOSE To report a case of acute bilateral Irvine-Gass syndrome. METHODS This is an observational case report. RESULTS An 82-year-old man with no significant ocular history developed postsurgical pseudophakic cystoid macular edema (CME; Irvine-Gass syndrome) on consecutive phacoemulsification cataract surgeries. His initial first-eye (left) CME developed 25 days after surgery and was manag...

In this work we present an application developed in Derive 6 to compose counterpoints for a given melody (“cantus firmus”). The result is non deterministic, so different counterpoints can be generated for a fixed melody, all of them obeying classical rules of counterpoint. It is also possible that the counterpoint could not be generated, in this case, backtracking techniques have been implement...

Musical scores are some of the most important learning tools for musicians’ acquisition of musical knowledge. However, despite their educational relevance, very little is known about how music students conceive of these cultural external representations. Given that these conceptions might act as mediators of students’ learning approaches, the importance of knowing these conceptions seems eviden...

Gap-acoustic solitons (GASs), which make use of the nearly universal electrostrictive light-sound interaction, offer promising new avenues for slowing light. Optical gap solitons exist inside the frequency region of the band gap created by a Bragg grating. The Bragg grating, which may be considered as a distributed mirror for wavelengths in phase with it, keeps low-intensity light out of the ga...