We have assessed the role of bandage contact lenses in the primary treatment of traumatic corneal abrasions. Patients treated with bandage lenses healed more quickly (0.05 greater than p greater than 0.02) and with less discomfort (0.05 greater than p greater than 0.02) than those treated traditionally, with the added advantage of maintaining vision during treatment. Resterilisation of contact ...

In this review we compare the three existing sets of theoretical yields of zero metal massive stars available in the literature. We also show how each of these three different sets of yields fits the element abundance ratios observed in the extremely metal poor star CD 38 245. We find that, at present, no theoretical set of yields of zero metal massive stars is able to satisfactorily reproduce ...

by over fivefold (figure), and the rises were larger in middle and older age than in children and young adults.3 This discrepancy therefore indicates that the rises in asthma mortality cannot simply be related to increased incidence or prevalence of severe asthma requiring hospital admission. Assuming that data on asthma mortality are satisfactorily reliable, and that the determinants of hospit...

A novel linearised Recursive Least Squares (LRLS) learning algorithm is presented for an adaptive non-linear forward predictor based on a Pipelined Recurrent Neural Network (PRNN). Simulation studies with speech signals show that the non-linear predictor does not perform satisfactorily when the previously proposed stochastic gradient (SG) algorithm is used. However, significantly improved resul...

We believe that current experimental and clinical evidence can be most satisfactorily interpreted by assuming that oxyhemoglobin is the cause of cerebral vasospasm that follows subarachnoid hemorrhage. We review the pathogenetic mechanisms by which oxyhemoglobin affects cerebral arteries. The relative importance of each of these mechanisms in the genesis of vasospasm, the biochemical pathways o...

As software-based systems are in almost every aspect of our society and our daily lives, the trustworthiness of these systems has become increasingly important. Besides reliability, availability and survivability, trustworthy softwarebased systems should also simultaneously satisfy other important QoS properties, such as security, privacy, and situation-awareness. Trustworthy software-based sys...

The performance of parallel linear algebra routines can be improved automatically using different methods. Our technique is based on the modellisation of the execution time of each routine, using information generated by routines from lower levels. However, sometimes the information generated at one level is not accurate enough to be used satisfactorily at higher levels. Therefore, a remodellin...

Because power requirements for hand-held applications vary widely with product use, no single "best" power source exists for these applications. A device used intermittently is more concerned with no-load quiescent current than with full-load efficiency, and so may operate satisfactorily with alkaline batteries. Cell phones, on the other hand, must contend with high peak loads and frequent use....

We show that in the Randall-Sundrum model the Casimir energy of bulk gauge fields (or any of their supersymmetric relatives) has contributions that depend logarithmically on the radion. These contributions satisfactorily stabilize the radion, generating a large hierarchy of scales without fine-tuning. The logarithmic behaviour can be understood, in a 4D holographic description, as the running o...

II.?The origin of Fever?the king of diseases.?Shiva, the lord of the three worlds, being angry with Raja Duksh, his father-in-law, because he had not invited him to a sacrifice, and because his wife had committed sutti, sent a demon whom lie had created from his third eye to destroy the Raja and his sacrifice. This personage accomplished the work so satisfactorily that his master changed his na...