PURPOSE The aim was to develop a single-item, categorical ophthalmic pain severity scale. METHODS Focus groups were held with people who had experienced ophthalmic pain. Participants described their ophthalmic pain experiences with reference to level of severity, and commented on proposed pain scale designs. Thematic analysis of transcripts, and participants' category choices and scale prefer...

INTRODUCTION The cerebral cortex develops rapidly in the last trimester of pregnancy. In preterm infants, brain development is very vulnerable because of their often complicated extra-uterine conditions. The aim of this study was to quantitatively describe cortical development in a cohort of 85 preterm infants with and without brain injury imaged at 30 and 40 weeks postmenstrual age (PMA). ME...

This paper proposes an approach for indexing large collections of videos, dedicated to content-based copy detection. The visual description chosen involves local descriptors based on interest points. Firstly, we propose the joint use of different natures of spatial supports for the local descriptors. We will demonstrate that this combination provides a more representative and then a more inform...

It is important to determine whether a candidate molecule is capable of penetrating the plasma-brain barrier indrug discovery and development. The aim of this paper is to establish a predictive model for plasma-brainbarrier penetration using simple descriptors The usefulness of the quantum chemical descriptors, calculated atthe level of the DFT and HE theories using 6-310* basis set for QSAR st...

In this work, quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) approaches were used to predict the redox potential of 42 phenolic antioxidants. The structures of all compounds optimized by the AM1 semi-empirical method and then a large number of molecular descriptors were calculated for each compound in the data set. Subsequently, stepwise multilinear regression was applied to select the mos...