CONCLUSIONS The data suggest that branchial cleft cyst (BCC) can be primarily treated with OK-432 sclerotherapy and only the remaining lesions with excision. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of sclerotherapy using OK-432 in the treatment of BCC. MATERIALS AND METHODS We treated 12 BCC patients (3 males and 9 females; mean age 25 years) with OK-432 sclerotherapy at an outpatient clin...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The aim of this study was to evaluate the indications for, and outcomes and limitations of, OK-432 therapy in various otolaryngological cystic diseases. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective clinical study at Yamagata University School of Medicine and the Fukase Clinic in Japan. METHODS Between April 1996 and November 2009 we tried OK-432 therapy in 148 patients with otolaryngo...

PURPOSE To compare responses to vertical and horizontal optokinetic (OK) stimulation in patients with disorders of ocular alignment. METHODS Using the magnetic search coil technique, we measured horizontal and vertical rotations of both eyes in six patients with strabismus since childhood and eight normal subjects. The OK stimulus subtended 72 degrees horizontally and 60 degrees vertically, c...

Machine learning methods, like random forest (RF), have shown their superior performance in various disciplines, but have not been previously applied to the spatial interpolation of environmental variables. In this study, we compared the performance of 23 methods, including RF, support vector machine (SVM), ordinary kriging (OK), inverse distance squared (IDS), and their combinations (i.e., RFO...

PURPOSE To investigate which baseline factors are predictive for axial length growth over an average period of 2.5 years in a group of children wearing orthokeratology (OK) contact lenses. METHODS In this retrospective study, the clinical records of 249 new OK wearers between January 2012 and December 2013 from the contact lens clinic at the Eye and ENT Hospital of Fudan University were revie...

The Shenhua Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project at the Shenbei Slope injection site in North Yulin is the first 100,000 tonper-year scale CCS pilot project in China with an injection operation lasting nearly 3 years. In this study, we investigate various geostatistical methods and their impact on the respective geologic models on which simulation is performed to understand the phenomena ob...

Spatial data, either areal or geostatistical (point-referenced), are becoming increasingly utilized in the study of many scientific fields due to the accessibility of data monitoring systems and associated datasets. When both types of data are available for the same underlying spatial process, computationally efficient and statistically sound methods are needed for their joint analysis. Markov ...

We develop an approach to utilize anisotropic metamaterials to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern plasmonics--parasitic scattering of surface waves into free-space modes, opening the road to truly two-dimensional plasmonic optics. We illustrate the developed formalism on the examples of plasmonic refractor and plasmonic crystal, and discuss limitations of the developed technique an...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE The effect of orthokeratology (OK) on low myopia is well known, but there are a few reports on its effect on high myopia. In this study, the parametric changes in high and low myopia as results of wearing OK lenses for a period of 6 months have been analyzed. METHODS Records of schoolchildren (age 7-17 years) undergoing OK treatment from an optometry clinic were retrospecti...