PURPOSE To report unusual ocular manifestations of branchio-oculo-facial syndrome (BOFS) caused by a novel mutation in activating enhancer binding protein 2 alpha (TFAP2A). METHODS Full ophthalmological evaluation and direct sequencing of TFAP2A. RESULTS A 10-year-old girl with unusual ocular manifestations of BOFS such as elliptical shaped microcornea and a novel de novo TFAP2A mutation wa...

We examine the 0.1 to 10.0 keV X-ray spectrum of the bright nuclear LINER galaxy NGC 1052, one of two elliptical galaxies known to contain a luminous H 2 O maser. The observed 2.0 − 10.0 keV spectrum is unusually flat (photon index Γ ∼ 0.2) and best described as intrinsically power-law shaped nuclear flux that is either (1) attenuated by a complex absorber with ∼ 70% of the nuclear flux absorbe...

Elliptical galaxies are modelled as homeoidally striated Jacobi ellipsoids (Caimmi & Marmo 2005) where the peculiar velocity distribution is anisotropic, or equivalently as their adjoints configurations i.e. classical Jacobi ellipsoids of equal mass and axes, in real or imaginary rotation (Caimmi 2006). Reasons for the coincidence of bifurcation points from axisymmetric to triaxial configuratio...

Elliptical nano-bumps on nickel-phosphorus coated aluminium (NiP/Al) hard disks were fabricated by a laser texturing system (maximum power 8 W, maximum frequency 300 kHz). By carefully selecting the level of laser power attenuation and defocus offset distance, bump height can be controlled below 6 nm and down to the sub-nanometre scale. This type of laser-induced texture (elliptical shape) on a...

Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations reveal that the density of stars in most elliptical galaxies rises toward the center in a power-law cusp. Many of these galaxies also contain central dark objects, possibly supermassive black holes. The gravitational force from a steep cusp or black hole will destroy most of the box orbits that constitute the " backbone " of a triaxial stellar system. D...

The growth of two dimensional noncircular flaws was studied by three independent methods: transfer function analysis, equivalent area approximation, and direct fracture mechanics calculation. All three methods yield results varying within a few percent of one another for the simpler elliptical and rectangular geometries. Results of transfer function and equivalent area methods agree also within...

Why is there little dust in elliptical galaxies? Here is a promising answer. Firstly, galaxies are rational. Rationality means that the density distribution of stars is proportional. Secondly, galaxy arms are linearly-shaped and irrational. The presence of arms is the disturbance to the rational disks and bars. Therefore, any disturbance to rational structure produces cosmic dust. c © Electroni...

Results from any existing clustering algorithm that are used for segmentation are highly sensitive to features that limit their generalization. Shape is one important attribute of an object. The detection and separation of an object using fuzzy ring-shaped clustering (FKR) and elliptic ring-shaped clustering (FKE) already exists in the literature. Not all real objects however, are ring or ellip...

Two microstrip fed ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas with different band rejection techniques are presented in this paper. The designed antennas consist of a defected ground plane with an elliptical slot and two different radiator shapes. The first design is composed of a half circular ring radiator element while the second one uses a crescent shaped radiator. The radiators are fed by a 50 Ω micros...