IMPORTANT INFORMATION Under the new Vantage rules, all OT CET points awarded will be uploaded to its website by us. All participants must confirm these results on www.cetoptics.com so that they can move their points from the “Pending Points record” into their “Final CET points record”. Full instructions on how to do this are available on their website. Optometric Correlates of Reading Difficulties

I was planning to ask the audience a few questions-not what the conference gave to them-for which I have no answers. I thought I could get information about some compounds by inviting these experts but they declined: the reason some gave was that there was nothing as yet to report about health effects. The first problem, spontaneous copolymeriza-tion, is not acute but probably will arise in the...

Glucokinase hyperinsulinism is a rare variant of congenital hyperinsulinism caused by activating mutations in the glucokinase gene and has been reported so far to be a result of overactivity of glucokinase within the pancreatic beta-cell. Here we report on a new patient with difficulties to diagnose persistent hyperinsulinism and discuss diagnostic procedures of this as well as the other report...

INTRODUCTION Locked plates are commonly used to obtain fixation in periarticular and comminuted fractures. Their use has also gained popularity in repairing fractures in osteoporotic bone. These plates provide stable fixation and promote biological healing. Over the last 3 years, we have used over 150 locked plates with varying success to fix periarticular fractures involving mainly the knee an...

AIMS To examine the relation between colic and feeding difficulties and their impact on parental functioning for a primarily clinic referred sample. METHODS Forty three infants (and their mothers) were enrolled between 6 and 8 weeks of age. Infants were divided into two groups, colic (n = 19) and comparison (n = 24), based on a modified Wessel rule of three criteria for colic. Families were a...

Despite the high incidence of reading difficulties, which may trouble up to 10% of all children, there is no agreement about their causes. This controversy is encapsulated in arguments about whether extreme reading difficulties should be noncommittally called `specific reading difficulty' or, using the neurological description `developmental dyslexia'. Specific reading difficulty is preferred b...

now passed through the fourth edition. Its special feature is that a great number of new developments in obstetric practice has been elaborately dealt with. It is not possible to single out any special chapter for appreciation. Various subjects of great practical importance, for example the management of cases of haemorrhage in the various stages of pregnancy and labour, the technique of everyd...

Classifier systems are currently in vogue as a way of using genetic algorithms to demonstrate machine learning. However, there are a number of difficulties with the formalization that can influence how knowledge is represented and the rate at which the system can learn. Some of the problems are inherent in classifier systems, and one must learn to cope with them, while others are pitfalls waiti...

U about 20 years ago, the dangers of maternal alcohol consumption to the developing fetus were generally minimized or dismissed. Reports linking maternal alcohol use and fetal growth deficiency emerged from France in the late 1950’s. Then in 1968, Lemoine and colleagues (1968) described growth deficit, mental retardation, and an unusually high rate of birth defects in 127 children born to alco­...