The authors assessed relationships between visual acuity and the amplitude, frequency, intensity, and duration of foveation periods in a retrospective study of 32 patients. Twenty-four patients had congenital idiopathic nystagmus, and eight patients had nystagmus and albinism. Visual acuity was determined for Landolt ring optotypes and, as the extrapolated high-frequency cutoff of the contrast ...

Correction of two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) error bursts finds wide applications in secure data handling such as 2-D and 3-D magnetic and optical data storage, charged-coupled devices (CCDs), 2-D barcodes, and information hiding in digital images and video sequences, to name a few. In this paper, we present a new 2-D interleaving technique, called successive packing, to comb...

The rank-k numerical range has a close connection to the construction of quantum error correction code for a noisy quantum channel. For noisy quantum channel, a quantum error correcting code of dimension k exists if and only if the associated joint rank-k numerical range is non-empty. In this paper the notion of joint rank-k numerical range is generalized and some statements of [2011, Generaliz...

Quantification of the setup errors is vital to define appropriate setup margins preventing geographical misses. The no-action-level (NAL) correction protocol reduces the systematic setup errors and, hence, the setup margins. The manual entry of the setup corrections in the record-and-verify software, however, increases the susceptibility of the NAL protocol to human errors. Moreover, the impact...

This paper presents new application-specific digital signal processor (ASDSP) instructions and their hardware accelerator to efficiently implement Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding and decoding, which is one of the most widely used forward error control (FEC) algorithms. The proposed ASDSP architecture can implement various programmable primitive polynomials, and thus, hardwired RS codecs can be repla...

introduction air pollution has harmful effect on human health and the environment. accordingly, considerable effort has been put to analyze the air pollutants. one important issue is the spatial distribution of these pollutants. dispersion of the pollutants released from sources on the ground is mostly driven by the planetary boundary layer where turbulent flow causes mixing of the content of t...

We present two methods for semiautomatic detection and correction of errors in textual databases. The first method (horizontal correction) aims at correcting inconsistent values within a database record, while the second (vertical correction) focuses on values which were entered in the wrong column. Both methods are data-driven and language-independent. We utilise supervised machine learning, b...

purpose: to determine the incidence, concurrent factors and clinical results of re-operation after corneal refractive surgeries. methods: in this retrospective descriptive study records of all patients undergoing corneal refractive surgeries including prk, lasik, and lasek between april 2005 and december 2006 were assessed. patients who had undergone re-operations entered the study; visual acui...