The relationship between corneal edema and hydrogel lens oxygen transmissibility was examined for both daily and extended contact lens wear by measuring the corneal swelling response induced by a variety of contact lenses over a 36-hr wearing period. The relationships derived enable average edema levels that occur with daily and extended wear in a population of normal young adults to be predict...

BACKGROUND The greater occipital nerve (GON) block has been frequently used for different types of headache, but performed with rough estimates of anatomic landmarks. Our study presents the values of the anatomic parameters and estimates the effectiveness of the ultrasound-guided GON blockade. METHODS The GON was detected using ultrasound technique and distance from external occipital protube...

EXCITEMENT is a novel, open software platform for Textual Entailment (TE) which uses the UIMA framework. This paper discusses the design considerations regarding the roles of UIMA within EXCITEMENT Open Platform (EOP). We focus on two points: a) how to best design the representation of entailment problems within UIMA CAS and its type system. b) the integration and usage of UIMA components among...

Objective: The aim was to develop osmotic tablets of nateglinide by two methods namely elementary pump (EOP) and push-pull (PPOP) method for controlled drug release.
 Methods: were prepared the wet granulation evaluated various physicochemical parameters, in-vitro dissolution dissolution. optimised formulation obtained in both further characterised FTIR, stability studies pharmacokinetic s...

Introduction The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale for Schizophrenia Autism Severity (PAUSS) scale can be derived from the Scale, enabling an assessment of psychotic autistic dimensions with a single tool. Objectives aim study was to investigate prevalence traits diagnostic, developmental, clinical, functional correlates this phenotype in sample early-onset psychosis (onset before age 18 yea...

Eosinophil lineage-committed progenitors (EoPs) are phenotypically isolatable in the steady-state murine bone marrow. Purified granulocyte/monocyte progenitors (GMPs) gave rise to eosinophils as well as neutrophils and monocytes at the single cell level. Within the short-term culture of GMPs, the eosinophil potential was found exclusively in cells activating the transgenic reporter for GATA-1, ...

Coupled electron and proton transport are an integral part of non-gassing electro-osmotic pumps (EOP). The kinetics of the electrode limits the kinetics of the electron transfer and hence the flow. This is observed in the present study with newly synthesized graphitic carbon covalently coupled to poly(anthraquinone) (PAQ). When EOP with identical electrodes were assembled, proton shuttle mainta...

Two industrial elemental chlorine free (ECF) bleaching sequences, D0(EOP)D1(EP)D2 and OQ(PO)DP, are compared with respect to the bulk content of lignin, carboxyl, hexeneuronic acids (HexA), and reducing groups after each bleaching stage. HexA groups contribute significantly to the total content of carboxyl groups, and their degradation during chlorine dioxide bleaching is reflected by a decreas...

Direct current electrokinetic systems generally require Faradaic reactions to occur at a pair of electrodes to maintain an electric field in an electrolyte connecting them. The vast majority of such systems, e.g. electrophoretic separations (capillary electrophoresis) or electroosmotic pumps (EOPs), employ electrolysis of the solvent in these reactions. In many cases, the electrolytic products,...