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PURPOSE To describe the anatomical and visual outcomes in a series of patients undergoing two-port pars plana vitrectomy reoperation under silicone oil for recurrent retinal detachment (RD) due to proliferative vitreoretinopathy or epimacular membrane (EMM) after RD repair. METHODS This study is a prospective, consecutive, interventional case series of patients presenting with recurrent RD or...

Background: Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease mainly affecting sacroiliac joints and spine. Peripheral arthritis, dactylitis enthesitis may also occur. Extra musculoskeletal manifestations (EMMs; uveitis [AAU], bowel [IBD] psoriasis [Pso] are among the most common ones) important features might have an impact on burden in patients with axSpA. The presen...

Floral visitors of the homoploid hybrid speeies. Iris nelsonii (Abbeville Red Iris), were observed and identified in order to determine whether Abbeville Red Iris flowers are visited by similar floral visitors as its progenitor Iris speeies. The most common floral visitors to Abbeville Red Iris flowers v/exeArchilochus colubris (Ruby-throated Hummingbird), whieh were also largely successful in ...

PURPOSE A reduced sensitivity to retinal image blur has been reported in myopes. Diminished blur detection reduces the error signal to the retinotopic (blur-induced) accommodation system and results in impaired accommodation responses under retinotopic conditions. This study was conducted to investigate retinotopic accommodation responses in emmetropia and myopia under dynamic conditions. MET...

Genetic vaccines are emerging as a powerful modality to induce T-cell responses to target tumor associated antigens (TAA). Viral or plasmid DNA or RNA vectors harbor an expression cassette encoding the antigen of choice delivered in vivo by vaccination. In this context, immunizations with minigenes containing selected, highly antigenic, T-cell epitopes of TAAs may have several advantages relati...

This paper establishes the Black Scholes formula in the martingale, risk-neutral valuation framework. The intent is two-fold. One, to serve as an introduction to expectation pricing and two, to examine this framework in explicit mathematical detail. The reader is assumed to have fluent background in the mathematical theory of stochastic processes and calculus, but is not assumed to have backgro...

MOTIVATION As next generation sequencing is rapidly adding new genomes, their correct placement in the taxonomy needs verification. However, the current methods for confirming classification of a taxon or suggesting revision for a potential misplacement relies on computationally intense multi-sequence alignment followed by an iterative adjustment of the distance matrix. Due to intra-heterogenei...

BACKGROUND MRSA is a significant contributor to prolonged hospital stay, poor clinical outcome and increased healthcare costs amongst surgical patients. A PCR test has been developed for rapid detection of MRSA in nasal swabs. The aims of this study are (1) to estimate the effectiveness of screening using this rapid PCR tests vs culture in reducing MRSA cross-infection rates; (2) to compare the...

In this paper, an elastic metamaterial with multiple dissipative resonators is presented for broadband wave mitigation by properly utilizing interactions from resonant motions and viscoelastic effects of the constitutive material. The working mechanism of the metamaterial to suppress broadband waves is clearly revealed in a dissipative mass-in-mass lattice system through both negative effective...