loss based on microperimetry is predictive of face recognition difficulties Thomas S A Wallis ∗ †1,3,4, Christopher Patrick Taylor †1, Jennifer Wallis †2, Mary Lou Jackson, and Peter J Bex Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia Present address: Universität Tübin...

OBJECTIVE To study middle period curative effect of posterior lumbar intervertebral fusion (PLIF) and interspinous dynamic fixation (Wallis) in the treatment of L45 degenerative disease and its influence on adjacent segment degeneration. PATIENTS AND METHODS 66 patients with lumbar L45 degenerative diseases were selected for study. The patients were randomly divided into PLIF operation group ...

Face recognition in today's technological world, and face recognition applications attain much more importance. Most of the existing work used frontal face images to classify face image. However these techniques fail when applied on real world face images. The proposed technique effectively extracts the prominent facial features. Most of the features are redundant and do not contribute to repre...

Adjacent segmental degeneration (ASD) is a major issue after pedicular fixation. This study examined the degeneration of the adjacent levels due to the insertion of the Wallis interspinous stabilization system compared with discectomy, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).Thirty-eight patients diagnosed with lumbar degeneration disorders at L4-L5 were reviewed: 19 patients underwent discectom...

for some N ≥ k + 1, then the equality in (1.2) occurs only when a = 0. Kruskal-Macaulay functions are relevant for their applications to the study of antichains in multisets (see for example [11, 2]), posets, rings and polyhedral combinatorics (see [5] and the survey [3]). In particular, they play and important role in proving results, extensions and generalizations of classical problems concer...

Recent botanical collections by H. S. McKee and Douglas E. Yen, together with the few available records from published papers, have been collated into a checklist of the known vascular plants of the Horne and Wallis Islands. Of 248 species here listed, 170 appear to be indigenous. Many of these are widespread, but 45 of them are limited to the Fijian Region (New Hebrides to Samoa) . Of the four...