Bacterial keratitis is a serious ocular infectious disease that can threaten vision. The disease generally progresses rapidly and can lead to corneal scar, stromal abscess formation, perforation, and dissemination to adjacent tissues if not treated properly. Recent studies showed that corneal collagen crosslinking (CCC) using ultraviolet-A/riboflavin is effective in the treatment of bacterial k...

Stable tissue integrity during embryonic development relies on the function of the cadherin·catenin complex (CCC). The Caenorhabditis elegans CCC is a useful paradigm for analyzing in vivo requirements for specific interactions among the core components of the CCC, and it provides a unique opportunity to examine evolutionarily conserved mechanisms that govern the interaction between α- and β-ca...

Notes on set theory, mainly forcing. The first four sections closely follow the lecture notes Williams [8] and the book Kunen [4]. The last section covers topics from various sources, as indicated there. Hopefully, all errors are mine. 1. The Suslin problem 1.1. The Suslin hypothesis. Recall that R is the unique dense, complete and separable order without endpoints (up to isomorphism). It follo...

Applying the controller area network (CAN) bus, this paper proposes the integration of three advanced motion control designs: (1) the zero phase error tracking control (ZPETC) mainly for each individual axis in the multi-axis system, (2) the zero magnitude error tracking control (ZMETC) for each individual axis at the high speed in the multi-axis system and (3) the cross-coupled control (CCC) f...

In elderly subjects, past researches have already underlined the role of nutritional status as a basic factor able to influence the prognosis either in acute wards or in rehabilitation and long-term care settings. Aim of the study is that of retrospectively verify, through a multivariate analysis, the factors able to condition mortality in long-term care, paying particular attention to the nutr...

Prikry asked if it is relatively consistent with the usual axioms of ZFC that every nontrivial ccc forcing adds either a Cohen or a random real. Both Cohen and random reals have the property that they neither contain nor are disjoint from an infinite set of integers in the ground model, i.e. they are splitting reals. In this note I show that that it is relatively consistent with ZFC that every ...

The efficiency and robustness of reliability methods are two important factors in the first-order reliability method (FORM). The conjugate choice control (CCC) and directional chaos control method (DCC) are developed to improve the robustness and efficiency of the FORM formula using the stability transformation method. In this paper, the CCC and DCC methods are applied for the reliability analy...

There is an interest in alternative rearing systems that allow for prolonged cow-calf contact (CCC). Yet, a better understanding of cows’ affiliative behaviour those needed. We evaluated the effect type CCC on calf-directed dairy cows. Cows were permitted to have either: i) partial (PC) with their calf; calves housed pen adjacent cow area allowing limited physical initiative dam but no suckling...