Intrastromal corneal inlays are an emerging treatment for presbyopic patients. The KAMRA™ small aperture inlay was the first such inlay to receive Conformité Européenne (CE) marking in 2005. It has been shown to improve uncorrected near and intermediate visual acuity without adversely affecting uncorrected distance visual acuity. Due to the age of presbyopic patients, they may eventually develo...

Alphanumeric text entry is a challenge for Virtual Reality (VR) applications. VR enables new capabilities, impossible in the real world, such as an unobstructed view of the keyboard, without occlusion by the user’s physical hands. Several hand representations have been proposed for typing in VR on standard physical keyboards. However, to date, these hand representations have not been compared r...

arquetry, also known as moaragh, derived from intarsia or inlay, is the ar t and craft of producing pictures and decorative designs by the skillful use of the grain, figure, and color of thin veneers of wood and other materials. In marquetry, the design is applied to a prepared base material, unlike the related craft of inlay where decorative bandings or designs are let into a solid item for em...

The aim of this work was to evaluate chitosan edible films incorporated with the EOs of two aromatic herbs, Thymus moroderi and Thymus piperella for (i) the growth inhibition of some bacterial strains (ii) their total phenolic content (TPC), and (iii) their antioxidant activity by means of three different antioxidant tests to define if the chitosan edible films incorporated with these EOs could...

In order to avoid electrical overstress (EOS) fails right from the beginning of the design process, a pro-active methodology is proposed that accounts for the special characteristics of integrated circuits (ICs) and their applications in order to deal with EOS in the design, handling and application of ICs. Zusammenfassung – Zur frühzeitigen Vermeidung von EOS-Ausfällen wird eine pro-aktive Met...

Biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus represents a problem in both the medical field and the food industry, because the biofilm structure provides protection to embedded cells and it strongly attaches to surfaces. This circumstance is leading to many research programs seeking new alternatives to control biofilm formation by this pathogen. In this study we show that a potent inhibition of b...