The phakic refractive lens (PRL) is a silicone lens implanted into the posterior chamber to correct myopia and hyperopia. At the beginning of 2002, when the PRL was introduced at St. Erik Eye Hospital, there had been no reports published on this lens model and therefore the pilot studies of myopic and hyperopic eyes were conducted to investigate the surgical outcome. In the first study, the fir...

<p class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; line-height: normal;"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The three-phase induction motor is an alternative to changing the diesel engine as main driver in industrial world. This transition aimed at energy efficiency and reducing air pollution from exhaust gases. It was chosen because it easy operate, quiet lo...

Since the beginning of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, there has been international concern about emergence virus variants with mutations that increase transmissibility, enhance escape from human immune response, or otherwise alter biologically important phenotypes. In late 2020, several emerged globally, including UK variant (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.3...

Chronic pruritus (CP) has considerable implications for QOL. However, its impact on health-related QOL and economic burden is not fully characterized. We administered a cross-sectional survey 132 patients with CP using the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 instrument. Normative data from healthy adults (n = 4,187) were obtained Joint Canada/US Survey of Health. Quality-adjusted life-year loss costs...

Amblyopia is an exceedingly common visual deficit marked by poor visual acuity and subpar performance of one or both eyes due to misshapen refractive surfaces of the cornea or weak muscles around the eye. Success rates of current treatment options are inadequate, leaving millions of people with untreated or unimproved amblyopia. Much of this failure is due to a high rate of noncompliance to reg...

Algae are defined by their photosynthetic organelles (plastids) that have had multiple independent origins in different phyla. These instances of organelle transfer significantly complicate inference of the tree of life for eukaryotes because the intracellular gene transfer (endosymbiotic gene transfer, EGT) associated with each round of endosymbiosis generates highly chimeric algal nuclear gen...