Aim: To review treatment response to combined intravenous steroid and orbital irradiation (DXT) in Asians with active thyroid eye disease (TED). Design: Retrospective case series. Methods: Single centre retrospective case series on active TED patients who received IV steroids and DXT at the Singapore National Eye Centre from 2005 to 2015. Patients who did / did not undergo surgical decompressio...

We show that shift bribery is intractable for the voting systems of Hare, Coombs, Baldwin, and Nanson.

The input power requirements for accessing H-mode at low density and maintaining it during the density ramp in ITER is addressed by statistical means applied to the international H-mode threshold power database. Following the recent addition of new data, the improvement of existing data and the improvement of selection criteria, a revised scaling law that describes the threshold power required ...

introduction: exposure to flour dust is an important risk factor in occurrence of allergic airway disorders among mill workers. the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and its relation with exposure to respirable dust. materials and methods: in this study, all of 35 workers who worked in the flour producing section of three factories were chosen as case...

In this paper, we present the TED Talks dataset which exposes all metadata and the actual transcripts of available TED talks as structured Linked Data. The TED talks collection is composed of more than 1800 talks, along with 35 000 transcripts in over 30 languages, related to a wide range of topics. In this regard, TED talks metadata available in structured, multilingual and HTTP-accessible for...

In recent years, transistor junction formation in complementary metal oxide semiconductor devices by ion implantation has encountered serious limitations due to transient enhanced diffusion ~TED! during the annealing step. Current models of TED rely heavily on detailed simulations of the complex diffusion-reaction network that governs TED, and often rely on fitted parameters whose values are un...

Fishes can regenerate lateral line and inner ear sensory hair cells that have been lost following exposure to ototoxic antibiotics. However, regenerative capabilities following noise exposure have not been explored in fish. Moreover, nothing is known about the functional relationship between hair cell damage and hearing loss, or the time course of morphological versus functional recovery in fis...

We examine the tight-binding density of states of a random binary alloy in a square lattice. In the split-band limit, which is similar to the model used for studing the quantum percolation problem, numerical calculations show that there is a pseudogap at the center of the lower subband, near and beyond the geometrical percolation threshold. This behavior is studied in two ways, by analyzing the...