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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE During vitrectomy in phakic patients, lens damage can occur while shaving the peripheral vitreous. Modifying the vitrector with a slight bend can diminish this risk. MATERIALS AND METHODS To assess whether the bent vitrector performs to standard, the cutting and aspiration functionality of a straight and bent cutter was tested on both the vitreous from an enucleated p...

This WinZip archive 'Combined R, EpiWin & datafiles (rev 2016-9-29).zip' contains the basic data used in the meta-analysis of doi 10.1016/j.mrrev.2016.07.008 (M.P. Little, 2016) [1], complete with R (R Project version 3.2.2, 2015) [2] code used for meta-regression etc. The basic data is derived from the papers of Mulrooney et al. (D.A. Mulrooney, M.W. Yeazel, T. Kawashima, A.C. Mertens, P. Mitb...

A physical mapping strategy has been developed to verify and accelerate the assembly and gap closure phase of a microbial genome shotgun-sequencing project. The protocol was worked out during the ongoing Pseudomonas putida KT2440 genome project. A macro-restriction map was constructed by linking probe hybridisation of SwaI- or I-CeuI-restricted chromosomes to serve as a backbone for the quick q...

We propose a simple mathematical model by applying Michaelis-Menton equations of enzyme kinetics to study the mutualistic interaction between the leaf cutter ant and its fungus garden at the early stage of colony expansion. We derive sufficient conditions on the extinction and coexistence of these two species. In addition, we give a region of initial condition that leads to the extinction of tw...

In the field of free-form machining, CAM software offers various modes of tool-path generation, depending on the geometry of the surface to be machined. Manufactured surface quality results from the choice of machining strategy and machining parameters. The objective of this paper is to provide a 3D surface roughness parameter that formalizes the relative influence of both machining parameters ...

Hu Shi*, Guofang Gong**, Huaiyin Liu***, Lintao Wang**** *Corresponding author, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, China, E-mail: [email protected] **Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, China, E-mail: [email protected] ***Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, China, E-mail: [email protected] ****Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, China, E-mail: ...

This paper presents the suitable depth of cut, spindle speed and feed rate that will be chosen during machining. If thus parameters are not considered, this can provoke abnormal tool behavior such as chatter. Chatter will limit the tool life which only can be use for just a few times. To predict the chatter occurs, the parameters will be use are spindle speed, depth of cut and feed rate. CNC ma...

NC machining is being used to create increasingly complex shapes. These complex shapes are used in a variety of defense, aerospace, and automotive applications to (1) provide performance improvements, and (2) create high performance tooling (e.g., molds for injection molding). The importance of the machining process is increasing due to latest advances in high speed machining that allows machin...