PURPOSE Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a group of inherited retinal degenerations leading to blindness due to photoreceptor loss. Retinitis pigmentosa is a rare disease, affecting only approximately 100 000 people in the United States. There is no cure and no approved medical therapy to slow or reverse RP. The purpose of this clinical trial was to evaluate the safety, reliability, and benefit of ...

The 2009-10 Argus Commission was charged to examine the topic of the pharmacist’s contribution to primary healthcare delivery in the context of national healthcare reform and identify the resources of the Academy and the profession needed to engage in the national conversation. The charge further requested the Argus Commission to scan the environment to determine the opportunities for expansion...

We describe and evaluate WatchTower, a system that simplifies the collection of Windows performance counter data, and Argus, a statistical methodology for evaluating this data and reducing the sheer volume of it. This is especially important when monitoring the performance of clusters for high performance computing. WatchTower’s overheads are comparable to those of Microsoft’s perfmon tool, whi...

We propose ARGUS, a high density, low power supercomputer built from an IXIA network analyzer chassis and load modules. The prototype is a diskless MPP scalable to 128 processors in a single 9U chassis. The entire system has a footprint of 1/4 meter2 (2.5 ft2), a volume of 0.09 meter3 (3.3 ft3) and maximum power consumption of less than 2200 watts. We compare and contrast the characteristics of...

Efficiency in Your Safety Operations with Oracle Argus A Complete Solution for Clinical and Post-Marketing Safety A constantly evolving regulatory climate worldwide, the critical focus on understanding the risk/benefit profile of products through all phases of development, increasingly complex and global clinical trials, and shrinking R&D resources have all fueled new demands for more efficient...

The 2008-09 Argus Commission was charged to examine the question of how colleges and schools of pharmacy are working to create agents of change for pharmacy and society. This charge was derived from the recommendation of the 2007-08 Argus Commission which stated that “the 2008-09 Commission, collaboratively with national student pharmacy leaders, should examine the curricular, co-curricular and...

The use of pure heavy hydrocarbons like propane or isobutane has some advantages for drift chaders that measure the specific ionisation for particle identification. With a prototype of the ARGUS drift chamber various gases were tested with a 3 GeV/c electron beam. We found a dE/dx resolution for propane of Fwhm= 10.4% and for isobutane Fwhm = 9.9X, by a factor of + 1.6 better than that for argo...

Interactive behavior emerges from the interaction of embodied cognition with task and the artifacts designed to accomplish the task. The current study focuses on how subtle changes in interface design lead to changes in the cognition, perception, and action operations that compose interactive behavior. The Argus Prime task is explained and the nature of the modeling effort is discussed. Insight...