PURPOSE To compare the choroidal structure beneath the macular area in eyes with reticular pseudodrusen (RPD) and age-matched controls. METHODS This study was performed at Nara Medical University Hospital, Japan. Twenty eyes of 14 patients (82.3±4.2 years, mean ± standard deviation) with RPD and 35 eyes of 20 age-matched controls (81.5±6.0 years) were studied. The choroidal structure was dete...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Rapidly progressive dementia (RPD) is an emergency in cognitive neurology, defined as cognitive impairment affecting the daily living activities developed over less than 1 year. This study investigated the profile of patients with rapidly progressive dementia at first presentation. METHODS Retrospective case analysis was done in 187 patients with rapidly progressive dem...

In this paper, the discontinuous projection based adaptive robust control (ARC) is extended to a class of uncertain linear systems with large disturbances. An observer is first designed to provide exponentially convergent estimates of the unmeasured states. This observer has an extended filter structure so that on-line parameter adaptation can be utilized to reduce the effect of the possible la...

Removable partial dentures (RPD) are an effective and affordable treatment option for partial edentulism. If the main reason for seeking treatment is the need for improved aesthetics, treatment should be geared towards achieving this goal. This article is the result of a literature study on aesthetic clasp design for the conventional RPD. In this context, the position of the clasp on the tooth,...

This paper addresses the design problem of GainScheduled (GS) H2 filters for Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems under the condition that only inexactly measured scheduling parameters are available. The state-space matrices of the LPV systems are supposed to be polynomially parameter dependent and those of filters which are to be designed are supposed to be rationally parameter dependent. Th...

We review theoretical models to show that contrast reduction at a specific wavelength in the horizontal direction depends directly on the beam attenuation coefficient at that wavelength. If a black target is used, the inherent contrast is always negative unity, so that the visibility of a black target in the horizontal direction depends on a single parameter only. That is not the case for any o...

In this paper, the optimizations problems to seek robust solutions under uncertainty are considered. The light robust approach is one of the strong and new methods to achieve robust solutions under conditions of uncertainty. In this paper, we tried to improve the quality of the solutions obtained from the Light Robust method by introducing a revised approach. Considering the problem concerned, ...