Background The design of an optimal highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) customised on patient’s background and viral genotyping, is still a challenge. EuResist has been the first data-driven system to be implemented as a free web-service for customised HAART optimisation, and was proven to be superior to all existing genotypic interpretation systems (GIS) since it takes into account no...

Methods: SciFly is a demonstration system that generates customised flyers about CSIRO’s research in Information and Communication Technologies, based on user-selected areas of interest. It has been designed to operate as a touch-screen information kiosk, but also has a web-interface to allow remote, browser-based interaction. In response to a user nominating their areas of interest, SciFly dyn...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the feasibility, applicability and the value of customised symphysio fundal height (SFH) charts developed for women of Indian origin in the United Kingdom (UK: CSFH - In chart) and women of African origin in the UK (CSFH - Af chart) in detecting fetal growth restriction and predicting low birth weight (LBW) of the neonate in a Lankan population, and to compare these resul...

OBJECTIVE To compare two experimental scuba mouthpieces with a commercially available design. METHODS A laboratory study using six men to assess effort, muscle pain, muscle fatigue, facial discomfort, tooth discomfort, and loss of lip sensation using a visual analogue scale. Cephalometric radiographs and analysis of jaw position with each mouth piece were also used. RESULTS Fully customised...

Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) machines, such as Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures, and customised architectures are two paradigms that are used to increase the performance of processors. While a VLIW machine has multiple functional units, a customised processor is equipped with Application-specific Functional Units (AFUs). Customisation has been proved beneficial on single i...

PURPOSE To investigate the efficacy of mitomycin C (MMC) in preventing haze formation in surface wavefront customized ablations with successful refractive treatment (laser epithelial keratomileusis [LASEK]) and to evaluate the safety of this technique on corneal stroma and endothelium. METHODS This study was a prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial involving 52 eyes (30 placebo...

This research focuses on four cases of patients having undergone eximer laser photorefractive surgery who were diagnosed with adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis during the postoperative period and who later developed epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC)-like keratitis. Two of the patients had undergone laser-assisted subepithelial keratectomy (LASEK), one had undergone laser in situ keratomileusis ...

OBJECTIVE To develop corneal morphometric models with refractive error in excimer laser surgery. METHOD A prospective-longitudinal study was conducted on 78 patients (151 eyes) using the LASIK surgical technique, and 56 patients (111 eyes) with myopic astigmatism using ESIRIS (Schwind-Germany) equipment with pendulous microkeratome. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics. A NI...

We have compared the changes in the pattern of the principal strains in the proximal femur after insertion of eight uncemented anatomical stems and eight customised stems in human cadaver femora. During testing we aimed to reproduce the physiological loads on the proximal femur and to simulate single-leg stance and stair-climbing. The strains in the intact femora were measured and there were no...