paul Chunder Roy, m.d., Bengal Medical Service, about ten years ago, drew prominent attention to the powerful action of Papaya juice as a solvent for albuminous tissue, considerable attention has been attracted to the subject with the view of utilizing the ferment. About five years ago, Rossbach, who termed the ferment Papayotim, advocated its use as a topical application in diphtheria in the h...

Knowledge visualization is a creative process, but difficult to formalize. This paper presents a system that is capable of analyzing voluminous citation data and visualizing the result. The system offers visualizations of trends by clustering scientific papers taken from the web (CiteSeer papers). Two methods are implemented: factor analysis and PFNET. An experiment has been carried out with th...

This paper proposes a new paradigm and a computational framework for revealing equivalencies (analogies) between sub-structures of distinct composite systems that are initially represented by unstructured data sets. For this purpose, we introduce and investigate a variant of traditional data clustering, termed coupled clustering, which outputs a configuration of corresponding subsets of two suc...

the purpose of the research was to formulate microspheres of acyclovir (acv) using mucoadhesive polymers, sodium alginate and chitosan. calcium chloride was used as the ionotropic gelling agent. sodium alginate was crosslinked by calcium chloride leading to a slower release of the drug. chitosan which is a cationic polymer interacted with sodium alginate, an anionic polymer, to form an interpol...

Progression in phacoemulsification techniques for cataract surgery[1-4] has also led to inevitable changes in the delivery of accompanying anesthesia from general to local modalities [5-7] i.e. retrobulbar, peribulbar, Sub-Tenon and topical anesthesia. General anesthesia is preferred for complicated intracapsular cataract extraction (ICCE) surgery as this technique involves significant manipula...

Cataract surgery is the most common elective operation performed worldwide (1, 2). The development of new technologies and new surgical techniques and materials lead to less invasive and day care procedures. This in turn encouraged an evolution on the ophthalmic anesthetic strategies, rendering general anesthesia largely unnecessary, so that local techniques have become preferred for cataract s...

An 11-item questionnaire was mailed to 891 consultant members of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) to audit compliance with RCOphth guidelines for perioperative management of anticoagulated patients having cataract surgery. Four hundred ninety-nine questionnaires were analyzed. The results showed that 29.5% of respondents adhered to all aspects of RCOphth guidelines; that is, they...

We present a case of a deep full thickness burn from topical formic acid. Our patient developed a burn over her proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) of her finger, secondary to inappropriate application of an anti-wart treatment. The burn required extensive deridement, and the resultant defect was reconstructed using a subcutaneous flap from the adjacent finger (a reverse cross finger flap). S...

The work is an encyclopaedic attempt to elucidate on a scientific and pathological basis the nature and treatment of the congerie of painful complaints, usually lumped together under the name " chronic rheumatism." It is divided, in the author's words, "into three main sections, (1) Infective or toxic arthritis ; (2) Traumatic varieties of fibrositis; (3) Static disorders falsely yclept rheumat...

We suggest an unsupervised approach to template induction for information extraction, through detecting sub-topics and themes that cut across the documents of a topical corpus. We introduce a new method – cross component clustering – that simultaneously clusters the components forming our setting, each of which consists of the words of a single article. Our algorithm is derived from the Informa...