Background: Implantable Phakic Contact Lenses have been developed as a cost-effective alternative to Visian Collamer lenses for refractive correction. Aim of the work: evaluate central vault implantable phakic contact lens (IPCL) and its correlation horizontal white (WTW) corneal diameter using anterior segment optical coherence tomography. Patients Methods: 30 eyes that match inclusion criteri...

Vault is one of the artistic gymnastics events, either for males and females competitions. Since 2001, vault regulations include an approach running of 25 m, a springboard and a rectangular table with a surface measuring 1.20 m x 0.95 m.  e table height is di€ erent among males (1.35 m), females (1.25 m) and juniors categories (1.15 m).  e competition regulations require from a gymnast to per...

INTRODUCTION The vaginal vault prolapse after hysterectomy is a complex disorder, which can be associated with the prolapse of anterior or posterior vaginal wall or cystorectocele. The exact incidence is unknown, and is within the range from 1 - 43% of operated patients. In order to achieve the complete surgical reconstruction of the pelvic floor disorder, a surgeon must have good knowledge of ...

Ex-situ conservation of crop diversity is a global concern, and the development of an efficient and sustainable conservation system is a historic priority recognized in international law and policy. We assess the completeness of the safety duplication collection in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault with respect to data on the world's ex-situ collections as reported by the Food and Agriculture Orga...

The aim of this study was to use a subject-specific seven-link wobbling mass model of a gymnast, and a multi-layer model of a landing mat, to determine landing strategies that minimise ground reaction forces (GRF) and internal forces. Subject-specific strength parameters were determined that defined the maximum voluntary torque/angle/angular velocity relationship at each joint. These relationsh...

Transabdominal sacrocolpopexy has been shown, in multiple long-term studies of its success and durability, to be the definitive treatment option for post-hysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse. It is, however, associated with greater morbidity than vaginal repair. We describe a minimally invasive technique for vaginal vault prolapse repair and present our experience with a minimum of one-year foll...

The fuzzy vault is one of the most popular biometric encryption schemes for protecting fingerprint data. However, its implementation faces two challenges: First, the fingerprints need to be aligned. Some publications have proposed the storage of auxiliary data to assist alignment, but these data may leak information about the biometric features. Secondly, the fuzzy vault is susceptible to attac...

Vault poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (VPARP) and telomerase-associated protein 1 (TEP1) are components of the vault ribonucleoprotein complex. Vaults have been implicated in multidrug resistance of human tumors and are thought to be involved in macromolecular assembly and/or transport. Previous studies showed that VPARP-deficient mice were viable, fertile, and did not display any vault-related or ...