Nowadays adaptive optics (AO) is a very powerful technique for several scientific and technological applications, and with important economical perspectives. In the last decade, AO technology has fostered new solutions to improve adaptive components performance. While the scientific line has grown up quickly, AO has not experienced yet a wide spread commercial diffusion because a reasonable tra...

A 68 year old gentleman suffered subarachnoid and intra-ventricular hemorrhage due to a basilar artery aneurysm, which was clipped. He needed multiple changes of external ventricular drain and Ommaya reservoir due to blocks. This led to nosocomial Candida albicans meningitis which was worsening despite 10 days of treatment with L AmB and 5FC to which the organism was susceptible. The susceptibi...

In this paper, a real time, user independent eyeball tracking approach is presented. The system is implemented using a low cost webcam. The robustness of the system is measured by several criteria such as users of different age where some of the users are wearing glasses under varying lighting condition, pose, eye orientation and distance from camera. The size and location of the region of inte...

this study aims to determine the relationship between innovation climate and the librarians' innovative behavior in organization of libraries, museums and documentation center of astan quds razavi, as the largest public library of iran. the methodology for this study is based on a survey research. to this purpose, the innovative behavior questionnaire and ekvall's (1996) innovation climate, dev...

access to knowledge resources such as human capital and managing these capitals is the main element of attaining competitive advantages in a knowledge-based economy, in a manner that needs a distinctive paradigm of human resource management. the necessity of adopting diverse human resource practices for driving innovation has resulted in doing current research aimed at considering the impact of...

The best chess programs have reached the top level players in the human chess world. The so called opening books, which are databases containing thousands of Grandmaster games, have been seen as a big advantage of programs over humans, because the computers do never forget a variation. Interestingly, it is this opening phase, which causes most problems for the computers, not because they do not...

Introduction: Heart failure is a significant and growing health problem. To enable a preventative health care system in heart failure, a move is required from the current, intermittent episodical treatment to continuous and ubiquitous access to medical excellence. Home telemonitoring systems that monitor vital body signs and symptoms with wearable technology, have been proposed to enhance treat...

According to a 1999 study by the National Academy of Sciences, arsenic in drinking water can cause several types of cancer, harm the central and peripheral nervous systems, cause serious skin problems, cause birth defects and reproductive problems. The USEPA published a Final Arsenic Rule in the Federal Register that established a revised Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for Arsenic of 10μg/L (U...

this article considers the many developments in technology and practice that are making libraries more connected and interdependent. it looks at new integrated online services and reviews the increasing importance of both formal and informal standards. global centralized web services are discussed. the relationships between information industry companies and libraries are considered. virtual re...