AIM To study the posterior corneal topographic changes in eyes with partial flaps during laser assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK). METHODS Case records of 16 patients, who had partial flap in one eye during LASIK (group 1) and uncomplicated surgery in the other eye (group 2), were studied. Following occurrence of partial flap intraoperatively, laser ablation was abandoned in all the eyes...

-We have used comparative sequence analysis to evaluate a putative silencer element that has been proposed to be involved in the differential tissue-expression of the murine renin genes: Ren-1 and Ren-2. In the mouse, these genes share a similar pattern of tissue-specific renin expression. One significant difference is seen in the submandibular gland (SMG) where renin expression from the Ren-2 ...

Using results on Hadamard difference sets, we construct regular graphical Hadamard matrices of negative type of order 4m4 for every positive integerm. Ifm > 1, such a Hadamard matrix is equivalent to a strongly regular graph with parameters (4m4, 2m4 + m2,m4 + m2,m4 + m2). Strongly regular graphs with these parameters have been called max energy graphs, because they have maximal energy (as defi...

We consider the problem for which K different types of data are collected to characterize an associated inference task, with this performed for M distinct tasks. It is assumed that the parameters associated with the model for data type (modality) k may be represented in the form of a mixture model, with the M tasks representing M draws from the mixture. We wish to simultaneously infer mixture m...

In the lungs, oxygen transfer from the inspired air to the capillary blood needs to cross the surfactant lining layer of the alveoli. Therefore, the gas transfer characteristics of lung surfactant film are of fundamental physiological interest. However, previous in vitro studies-most relied on the Langmuir-type balance-fail to cover the low surface tension range (i.e., less than the equilibrium...

Methods Figure 1 shows the proposed CS reconstruction with CD sparsity for phase contrast MR. The objective function J = ‖FΩmi-yi‖2+l‖Ψmi‖1‖+lCD‖m1-m2‖1, where mi=1,2 are the two bipolar encoding acquisitions and |m1-m2| is the corresponding CD image, is used in the reconstruction. The reconstruction performs iteratively between two bipolar images. Every iteration, the recon of m1 makes the int...

and Applied Analysis 3 where i, j, and k are nonnegative integers. Let I be a closed interval in R. By induction, we may prove that x∗jk t Pjk ( x10 t , . . . , x1,j−1 t ; . . . ;xk0 t , . . . , xk,j−1 t ) , 1.11 βjk Pjk ⎛ ⎜⎝ j terms { }} { x′ ξ , . . . , x′ ξ ; . . . ; j terms { }} { x k ξ , . . . , x k ξ ⎞ ⎟⎠, 1.12 Hjk Pjk ⎛ ⎜⎝ j terms { }} { 1, . . . , 1; j terms { }} { M2, . . . ,M2; . . . ...

Complete genes encoding the predicted nucleoprotein (N), phosphoprotein (P), matrix protein (M), fusion protein (F), M2-1protein, M2-2protein, small hydrophobic protein (SH), and attachmentprotein (G) of seven newly isolated human metapneumoviruses (hMPVs) were analyzed and compared with previously published data for hMPV genes. Phylogenetic analysis of the nucleotide sequences indicated that t...

PURPOSE To determine the subtypes of cholinergic muscarinic receptors and receptors for vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) present in rat conjunctival goblet cells and whether cholinergic agonists and VIP stimulate goblet cell secretion. METHODS Immunofluorescence studies were performed using antibodies against the m1, m2, and m3 muscarinic receptor subtypes and VIP receptors 1 and 2 (VIPR1 ...