OBJECTIVE To evaluate two cases of intermittent exotropia treated by vision therapy the efficacy of the treatment by complementing the clinical examination with a 3D videooculography to register and to evidence the potential applicability of this technology for such purpose. METHODS We report the binocular alignment changes occurring after vision therapy in a woman of 36 years with an intermi...

Using frictional force microscopy (FFM), the friction surface characteristics were compared between twisted nematic (TN) mode and vertical alignment (VA) mode alignment films (AFs). The friction asymmetry was detected depending on temperature conditions on TN mode AF, but not on VA mode AF. The difference between two modes was explained by leaning intermolecular repulsion caused by the pre-tilt...

A simple method to make a switchable liquid crystal (LC) Fresnel lens with high diffraction efficiency and a low driving voltage was proposed based on the photo-induced surface modification of the vertical alignment layer. UV illumination alters the pretilt angle of alignment layers, a Fresnel zone-distribution hybrid alignment in the homeotropic LC cell can be straightforwardly achieved throug...

This paper describes the system proposed for the Spoken Web Search task at Mediaeval 2012 campaign. We use an audio-only system based on our new called Cumulative Dynamic Time Warping (CDTW) algorithm. This algorithm combines the scores of all the alignment paths and allows for the learning of different cost functions for each kind of step in the alignment matrix (diagonal, horizontal and verti...

Interference alignment (IA) is a transmission strategy that attempts to exploit all degrees of freedom available at the transmitter or at the receiver in a multiuser channel. This paper proposes a new scheme named channel aided interference alignment. It makes use of the channel structure beside the linear interference alignment schemes to achieve the optimum degrees of freedom in a K user inte...

Abstract Self-ordered multilayered Ge nanodots with SiGe spacers on a Si 0.4 0.6 virtual substrate are fabricated using reduced-pressure chemical vapor deposition, and the mechanism of vertical ordering is investigated. The process conditions layer deposition H 2 -GeH 4 at 550 °C -SiH 500 °C–550 °C, respectively. By depositing or increasing content, surface becomes smooth, resulting in vertical...

Carbon nanotubes are archetypical one dimensional systems, with peculiar anisotropic electronic properties. Only recently μm thick films of vertically aligned SWNT became available. The vertical alignment of the nanotube mats allows the realization of scattering geometries promoting specific dipole transitions parallel and normal to the axis of the SWNT. We find well expressed mosaic spreads fo...

In this paper, we describe a phrase-based unigram model for statistical machine translation that uses a much simpler set of model parameters than similar phrasebased models. The units of translation are blocks – pairs of phrases. During decoding, we use a block unigram model and a word-based trigram language model. During training, the blocks are learned from source interval projections using a...