PURPOSE To evaluate the influence of biometric variables on refractive outcomes after cataract surgery in angle-closure glaucoma (ACG) patients. METHODS In this case-control study, 42 ACG patients, 40 open-angle glaucoma (OAG) patients, and 35 controls without glaucoma who had undergone conventional cataract surgery were enrolled consecutively. Electronic medical records, including preoperati...

Polymer crystallization in dilute solution is studied by three-dimensional Monte-Carlo simulations using the bond fluctuation model. We study monodisperse chains of moderate length, intended to model recent experiments on monodisperse alkanes with length of a few hundred carbon atoms, and we also investigate chain folding of very long polymers. For monodisperse flexible chains we observe both e...

Human tympanic membrane (or eardrum) is composed of three membrane layers with collagen fibers oriented in the radial and circumferential directions, and exhibits viscoelastic behavior with membrane (or in-plane) properties different from through-thickness (or out-of-plane) properties. Due to the interaction of bundled fibers and ground substance, which is inhomogeneous, these properties could ...

The effects of molding conditions on fiber orientation patterns were studied using X-ray diffraction. From an analysis of the diffraction patterns in the depth direction, it was determined that the plaque consists of three or four layers with different orientation patterns and thicknesses. Preferential directions of fibers the outer two layers, namely, skin and intermediate, are independent of ...

The Bloch-Torrey Partial Differential Equation (PDE) can be used to model the diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) signal in biological tissue. In this paper, we derive an Anisotropic Diffusion Transmission Condition (ADTC) for the Bloch-Torrey PDE that accounts for anisotropic diffusion inside thin layers. Such diffusion occurs, for example, in the myelin sheath surrounding the axons of...

The symmetry-induced magnetic anisotropy due to monoatomic steps at strained Ni films is determined using results of first principles relativistic full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) calculations and an analogy with the Néel model. We show that there is a magnetoelastic anisotropy contribution to the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy energy in the vicinal plane of a stepped surfac...

We are interested in critical fields for ferromagnetic elements: At which strength of the external field does a branch of stationary magnetizations become unstable and what is the destabilizing mode? We consider samples which are infinite in the direction of the external field and have a rectangular cross section, of much smaller thickness than width, as an idealization of a thin film element. ...