Aims: To establish a keratoprosthesis (Kpro) surgical technique that maintains an intact superficial corneal layer. Methods: A manual microkeratome (Moria LSK-1) was used to create a 130 mm flap of approximately 10 mm diameter in the right eye of Japanese white rabbits. The stoma beneath the flap area was dissected before the removal of a 5.0 mm stromal disc. A 5.0 mm collagen I immobilised pol...

We consider a set S of n points in the two-dimensional Euclidean plane. The points are in general position, i.e., no three points are collinear, and no four points are co-circular. In addition we assume that the points do not move, and the size of the set does not change, thus the point set can be considered fixed. Under these premises, a triangulation of the point set is a maximal set of non-i...

The Texture Fragmentation and Reconstruction (TFR) algorithm has been recently introduced to address the problem of image segmentation by textural properties, based on a suitable image description tool known as the Hierarchical Multiple Markov Chain (H-MMC) model. TFR provides a hierarchical set of nested segmentation maps by first identifying the elementary image patterns, and then merging the...

Every journal finds its fundamentals in the course of time by the validity and originality of its published literature. This is validated if authors keep diligence and honesty when they conduct their research and submit their work in a journal. But at times what comes out of a scientific research is not always valid and reliable because there has not been an appropriate control on the work or r...