PURPOSE To determine whether baseline Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) measurements of the optic disc are associated with the development of open-angle glaucoma (OAG) in individuals with ocular hypertension in the European Glaucoma Prevention Study (EGPS). DESIGN Retrospective analysis of a prospective, randomized, multicenter, double-masked, controlled clinical trial. METHODS There were 4...

Study Design: An in vitro experiment. Objectives: To evaluate the mRNA expressions of matrix components, and analyze the cellular proliferation and proteoglycan synthesis of human intervertebral disc cells in response to dexamethasone and TGF-β1 Summary of Literature Review: Corticosteroids are responsible for the regulation of a diverse range of biological processes through modulation of the e...

We present the detection of an enormous disc of cool neutral hydrogen (H I) gas surrounding the S0 galaxy NGC 612, which hosts one of the nearest powerful radio sources (PKS 0131-36). Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array, we detect MHI = 1.8 × 10 9M⊙ of H I emission-line gas that is distributed in a 140 kpc wide disc-like structure along the optical disc and dust-lane of NGC 612. The bul...

The analytical potential of polystyrene (PS) spin-coated modified compact discs (CDs) surface as platforms for the development of microarray immunoassays is presented. The surface maintained the optical characteristics of compact discs, obtaining a transparent and smooth film polymer of 70 nm thickness, the track being read (lambda 780 nm) without errors in a commercial CD reader/writer. The an...

Optimum energy consumption and prevention of energy losses are important issues in various fields including agricultural engineering. Mower is one of the agricultural machineries that can waste too much energy if does not function properly. In this study, the performance of a single disc rotary mower was studied and optimized by measurement of cutting quality of the stem cross section (cutting ...

In this paper, we measure the optical-to-virial velocity ratios Vopt/V200c of disc galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) at a mean redshift of 〈z〉 = 0.07 and with stellar masses 109 < M∗ < 1011 M . Vopt/V200c, the ratio of the circular velocity measured at the optical radius of the disc (∼10 kpc) to that at the virial radius of the dark matter halo (∼150 kpc), is a powerful observatio...

We report a unique case of lumbar disc herniation, in particular, with end-plate and surrounded by extensive ossification, mimicking a tumor with calcification. A 69-year-old female suffered from right buttock and leg pain. Computed tomography (CT) showed an intracanalar mass with calcification or ossification, which most likely originated from the vertebral body at the L1/2 level epidural spac...

THis new aid to corneal grafting has been designed to facilitate and simplify the operative procedure of lamellar keratoplasty. The instrument, a combination of blunt dissector and a cutting knife, has been used successfully as the basis of the new splitting technique in which an exact replica of the corneal disc removed from the recipient globe can be matched and replaced by a similar disc of ...

One hundred and eleven strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from clinical material were studied for susceptibility to carbenicillin. Of the strains, 80% were inhibited by 125 mug/ml or more. The combination of carbenicillin and gentamicin was shown to have inhibitory and bactericidal synergistic effect on 15 of 16 strains of P. aeruginosa tested. There was poor correlation between the sin...

In this paper, we introduce a family of harmonic parabolic starlike functions of complex order in the unit disc and coefficient bounds, distortion bounds, extreme points, convolution conditions and convex combination are determined for functions in this family. Further results on integral transforms are discussed. Consequently, many of our results are either extensions or new approaches to thos...