A diode laser, which emitted infrared radiation at a wavelength of 810 nm, was used to perform trabecular photocoagulation in a human eye due for enucleation for malignant melanoma. For comparison, burns were applied with an argon blue-green laser (488-514.5 nm). With each laser, the treatment spot size was 100 microns and the pulse duration was 0.20 sec. Visible lesions were produced with a po...

Fujiwara and Iwama [In: The 13th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms andComputation, pp. 476–488 (2002)] first integrated probability distribution into the classical competitive analysis to study the rental problem. They assumed that the future inputs are drawn from an exponential distribution, and obtained the optimal competitive strategy and the competitive ratio by the derivative me...

Mutant forms of herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) subgroup C strain 488 with deletions in either STP-C488 or Tip were constructed. The transforming potentials of the HVS mutants were tested in cell culture and in common marmosets. Parental HVS subgroup C strain 488 immortalized common marmoset T lymphocytes in vitro to interleukin-2-independent growth, but neither of the deletion mutants produced such ...

We consider the problem of estimating the properties of an oil reservoir, like porosity and sand thickness, in an exploration scenario where only a few wells have been drilled. We use gamma ray records measured directly from the wells as well as seismic traces recorded around the wells. To model the association between the soil properties and the signals, we fit a linear regression model. Addit...

The green fluorescent protein (GFP) from Aequorea victoria is a versatile reporter protein for monitoring gene expression and protein localization in a variety of cells and organisms. Despite many early successes using this reporter, wild type GFP is suboptimal for most applications due to low fluorescence intensity when excited by blue light (488 nm), a significant lag in the development of fl...

Motivation: Medical terminology mapping is a long-standing challenge for projects requiring retrieval, querying and integration of heterogeneous patient data. Current tools fail to fully uti-lise the richness of the underlying coding systems, and can be difficult to install and maintain. For example, National Library of Medicine's UMLS provides a rich collection of terminology mapping , however...

I t w a s found imposs ib le to a r r a n g e a da t e for M a u d Ba l l i ng ton B o o t h as adve r t i s ed on ou r e n t e r t a i n m e n t cour se and t h e c o m m i t t e e h a s secu red in p lace of th is n u m b e r D r . Tohn M e r r i t t D r i v e r of C h i c a g o , w h o wil l l ec ture in t he A r m o r y F r i d a y e v e n i n g . H e w a s f o r m e r l y p a s t o r of t ...

1 International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America. Send correspondence and reprint requests to: Benjamin A. Sklaver, International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifto...