BACKGROUND Surgical videography can provide analytical self-examination for the surgeon, teaching opportunities for trainees, and allow for surgical case presentations. This study examined if a modified GoPro Hero 4 camera with a 25 mm lens could prove to be a cost-effective method of surgical videography with enough detail for oculoplastic and strabismus surgery. METHOD The stock lens mount ...

Purpose – Sport celebrities often endorse their team, their sport, and non-sports-related products. Increased idolizing of sport celebrities by adolescents is one artifact of this promotional practice. Although seemingly innocuous, adolescents who idolize sport celebrities may, as adults, come to worship such celebrities; this unhealthy obsession may afflict 10 percent or more of adults. If ado...

The writer and activist Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999) came from a prominent establishment family but was member of the Labour Party wife MP. Her work explicitly marked by Russian Revolution, even when she wrote about antiquity. In 1920s 1930s, produced number works historical fiction set in ancient Greece Rome, which were highly regarded at time. use canvas antiquity to experiment with many forms...

Visual primitives have long been proposed, under the name of geons or generalized cylinders, as components for object models in the brain and in the computer. Geons constitute a structural level intermediate between features and whole objects, and can form a basis for powerful generalization between different view points. We here present a system for the extraction of geon models from images of...

The nature of the obscuring material in active galactic nuclei is still uncertain. Although some sources, such as Cygnus A, show evidence for a geometrically thick “torus” as originally suggested, recent work on the radiation-driven warping instability discovered by Pringle suggests that obscuration by thin, warped disks may play a crucial role in AGN.

mithraism and zoroastrianism, the ancient iranian religions, are rooted in the culture of this country; consequently, their reflections are vividly evident in persian literature. the prominent iranian poet nizami ganjavi utilized these cults allegorically and symbolically in his two prominent versified stories of haft paikar, and khosro and shirin. this paper aims at discussing the primary samp...