The paper is a prospective study of 23 lids of 20 patients with upper lid aponeurotic ptosis operated using microincision technique in period 2005-2008. There were 7 males and 13 females. Age of the patients was 28-83 years (y), average 61 +/- 17 y, for female 63 +/- 13.4 y and for male 61 +/- 19 y. Inclusion criteria were: aponeurotic upper lid ptosis more than 2 mm, no other lid abnormalities...

Language identification (LID) based on phono-tactic modeling is presented in this paper. Approaches using phoneme strings and strings of units automatically derived by an Ergodic HMM (EHMM) are compared. The phoneme recognizers were trained on 6 languages from OGI multi-language-corpus and Czech SpeechDat-E. The LID results are obtained on 4 languages. The results show superiority of Czech phon...

In this paper we propose the use of a lazy learning technique called LID for discovering patterns in the Toxicology dataset. LID classifies examples and builds an explanation of that classification. We analyzed the Toxicology dataset using a two-step proces: first we use LID for classifying all the cases in the dataset. Then we select a subset of explanations and use them as patterns that captu...

This technique, which targets excess ocular fat in the medial pocket, may be used as a primary procedure or as a secondary revision in patients who are unhappy with remaining excess medial fat after undergoing blepharoplasty. According to the author, the procedure is fast and relatively easy to perform, and patients benefit from rapid recovery, minimal morbidity, the use of local anesthesia, an...

OBJECTIVE The long-term use of levodopa to treat Parkinson's disease (PD) is often limited by the development of motor complications (e.g., levodopa-induced dyskinesia, LID). We hypothesized that a non-ergot dopamine agonist with strong affinity for D3) dopamine receptors (pramipexole) may improve LID in patients taking an ergot D1/D2 dopamine agonist. METHODS Patients with PD and LID being t...

3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl-L-alanine (L-DOPA)-induced dyskinesia (LID) is a debilitating side effect of long-term dopamine replacement therapy in Parkinson's Disease. At present, there are few therapeutic options for treatment of LID and mechanisms contributing to the development and maintenance of these drug-induced motor complications are not well understood. We have previously shown that pharmacolo...

Classification "Lid lag" True lid lag is virtually specific for hyperthyroidism. It is probably due to increased tone in the levator palpebrae superioris and gives rise to the "staring" appearance. It can be elicited by making the subject follow movements of the finger rapidly up and down. The upper lid can Ibe observed to lag behind the movement of the eyeballs, especially in a downward direct...

Plants use rapid movements to disperse seed, spores, or pollen and catch animal prey. Most rapid-release mechanisms only work once and, if repeatable, regaining the prerelease state is a slow and costly process. We present an encompassing mechanism for a rapid, repeatable, passive-dynamic motion used by a carnivorous pitcher plant to catch prey. Nepenthes gracilis uses the impact of rain drops ...