Over the past 20 years increasing interest has been given to children's rights that grant special protections to children living apart from their biological parents. The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 was promulgated to prevent unnecessary removal of children from their original families and to ensure permanency when return to their families could not be secured. The psychiat...

PURPOSE This study investigates the inflammation in the anterior chamber in eyes with primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) and evaluates the effect of intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation on the blood-aqueous barrier (BAB). METHODS Thirty-five patients (35 eyes) with acute primary angle closure glaucoma (APACG), 42 patients (42 eyes) with chronic primary angle closure glaucoma (CPACG), and 5...

Purpose: To customize clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for cataract management in the Iranian population. Methods: First, four CPGs (American Academy of Ophthalmology 2006 and 2011, Royal College of Ophthalmologists 2010, and Canadian Ophthalmological Society 2008) were selected from a number of available CPGs in the literature for cataract management. All recommendations of these guidelines...

Abstract In this chapter, the authors reflect on meanings of care through a conversation with Khayaat Fakier and Wendy Harcourt recorded in March 2022. The cross generational weaves around issue relation to ethics, intersectional justice, feminism environmental activism. We ask share their perspectives care, reflecting feminist roots activism, teaching research.

On the whole, this book has brought together the more recent advances in this field and could serve as a supplement to standard textbooks. The book is bound to be useful for trainee corneal surgeons and corneal specialists as well. The selection of topics has been imaginative and the authors have done justice to them. A chapter on keratoprosthesis is however, conspicuous by its absence. It woul...

One key message from our report, and from the Institute's sister report on Government Transitions, is that preparation and planning by all these groups is key. We offer this brief guide to what the implications of a hung parliament would be. Where relevant, references are made to the draft Chapter 6 of the new Cabinet Manual that is being published by the Cabinet Office. This was also the subje...

It is challenging to obtain online solutions of large-scale integer linear programming (ILP) problems that occur frequently in slightly different forms during planning for autonomous systems. We refer to such ILP problems as repeated ILP problems. The branch-and-bound (BAB) algorithm is commonly used to solve ILP problems, and a significant amount of computation time is expended in solving nume...

Self-optimizing control is a promising method for selection of controlled variables (CVs) from available measurements. Recently, Ye et al. [2012] have proposed a globally optimal method for selection of self-optimizing CVs by converting the CV selection problem into a regression problem. In this approach, the necessary conditions of optimality (NCO) are approximated with linear combinations of ...