PURPOSE To quantify the visual functional changes caused by pinhole glasses. METHODS Healthy subjects underwent ophthalmic examinations including uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) and corrected near visual acuity (CNVA), pupil size, depth of focus (DOF), accommodative amplitude, visual field (VF) test, contrast sensitivity (CS), and stereopsis. Subjects underwent the same examinations...

BACKGROUND Multifocal glasses (bifocals, trifocals, and progressives) increase the risk of falling in elderly people, but how they do so is unclear. To explain why glasses with progressive addition lenses increase the risk of falls and whether this can be attributed to false projection, this study aimed to 1) map the prismatic displacement of a progressive lens, and 2) test whether this displac...

Glasses in lead-iron phosphate (LIP) system loaded with simulated nuclear waste, were melted in the temperature range750-950oC. Some of the LIP glasses were mixed with uranium salt. The pH determinations of the leachate solution at normal temperature show some interesting trends. Leaching study of these glasses with a maximum time period of 300 hrs. were conducted under Soxhlet distillation con...

A possible mechanism of strain accommodation in large deformation of glasses is crystallization; deformation stability is a measure of the resistance of glasses to crystallization. We study the effect of atomic size ratio and atomic stiffness parameter (related to the curvature of the interatomic potential) on deformation stability of binary glasses using molecular static simulations. The defor...

OBJECTIVES To compare the usefulness of a CCD camera with infrared illumination (IR-CCD camera) over Frenzel glasses (F Glasses) for the observation of spontaneous nystagmus, the incidence and direction of nystagmus, and the frequency, amplitude and slow phase of spontaneous nystagmus. METHODS One hundred vertiginous patients, fifty-three females and forty-seven males participated in this stu...

Introduction: Continuous bombardment by aster-oidal and cometary debris over the last 4.5 Ga has churned the lunar surface into a fine-grained regolith. The violent nature of these impacts has largely destroyed the primordial lunar crust, reworking it into a variety of breccia and glass fragments that make up the majority of most Apollo soils. Nowhere is this more true than at the Apollo 16 sit...

CaO-P2O5-SiO2-B2O3-ZnO bioactive glasses were prepared via an optimized sol-gel method. The current investigation was focused on producing novel zinc based calcium phosphoborosilicate glasses and to evaluate their mechanical, rheological, and biocompatible properties. The morphology and composition of these glasses were studied using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM...

AIM To demonstrate the feasibility of the wearable smart glasses, PicoLinker, in guide wire insertion under fluoroscopic guidance. METHODS Under a fluoroscope, a surgeon inserted 3 mm guide wires into plastic femurs from the lateral cortex to the femoral head center while the surgeon did or did not wear PicoLinker, which are wearable smart glasses where the fluoroscopic video was displayed (1...

Two alkali-tin-silicate (ATS) glasses have been prepared at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) as part of our ongoing research in radioactive waste glass development. These glasses dissolved 5% and approximately 7% Pu. Early corrosion test results indicate that Pu-bearing ATS glass is extremely durable. The initial goal in this project concerned equally both the solubility of Pu and the durabili...

Microsoft Hololens and Google Glass (Project Aura) are two examples of a new stream of wearable technology devices called ‘Augmented Reality Smart Glasses’ that might substantially influence media usage in the near future. In this study, the authors draw upon prior technology acceptance research and propose an exploratory model of antecedents to smart glasses adoption. An empirical study reveal...