The treatment goals for glaucoma are lowering the intraocular pressure and preservation of vision. Topical hypotensive drops are the standard form of therapy which is often associated with some symptoms of toxicity, ocular inflammation, allergy, or ocular surface disease (OSD). OSD is a common comorbidity in glaucoma patients, and its prevalence with glaucoma increases with age. Use of topical ...

PURPOSE To examine the prevalence of ocular surface complaints in Brazilian patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension who used topical intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering regimens. METHODS In this multicenter, noninterventional, single-visit study, adults with glaucoma or ocular hypertension treated with an IOP-lowering regimen were administered the 12-item ocular surface disease index (O...

Disclosing personal information to a crowd, with all its risks and benefits, is almost ubiquitous in Web 2.0. Drawing on privacy calculus (PC) theory, we investigate whether cultural differences moderate the effect of risk and benefit assessment on online self-disclosure (OSD) in person-to-crowd settings. Empirically, our study relies on a (statistical) meta-analysis of 38 studies. Our findings...

BACKGROUND Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD) is one of the common causes of knee pain in active adolescents who play sports. The common age for boys to have OSD is between 12 and 15 years and for girls, between 8 and 12 years. Radiographic studies are helpful in diagnosis and treatment of OSD. PURPOSE We examine the age at onset of OSD in detail and investigate the relationship between clinical ...

We propose JAS, a JVM-based active storage framework for object-based storage systems. JAS programs the active storage functions of users as Java codes, and allows them to be executed on different OSD platforms (Operating systems and hardware) without recompiling. JAS offloads the active storage code from a client to the OSD by extending the standard OSD command set, and execute the Java code o...

Developers often describe testing as being tedious and boring. Our work challenges this notion. We describe tools and methodologies crafted to test object-based storage devices (OSDs) for correctness and compliance with the T10 OSD standard. Special consideration is given to testing the security model of an OSD implementation. Some work was also carried out on building OSD benchmarks. This work...

OBJECTIVE To validate a disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) instrument for children with obstructive sleep disorders (OSDs). DESIGN Prospective cohort study using a 6-item health-related instrument (OSD-6). SUBJECTS One hundred caregivers of patients with OSDs secondary to adenotonsillar hypertrophy (age range, 2-12 years) from 2 tertiary care, pediatric otolaryngology p...

BACKGROUND Glaucoma can be associated with an increase in the occurrence of ocular surface disease (OSD) symptoms. The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of ocular surface complaints in patients with glaucoma who used topical intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering therapies. METHODS In this multicenter, international, noninterventional study, adults with glaucoma or ocular hyp...

Increased globalization and the consequent dispersion of IT activities around the world have driven the growth of offshore outsourcing. The share of offshore software development (OSD) in the high-cost countries has grown tremendously since the 1990s and this trend will continue in the coming years. Software development projects continue to experience poor performance problems because of their ...

Background Although tensile force on an immature tibial tuberosity is considered the main cause of Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD), the relationship between bony maturity and the pathogenesis of OSD remains obscure. Purpose To survey the bone maturation process of the tibial tuberosity by age and sex and clarify its relationship to OSD. Study Design Cross-sectional study; Level of evidence, ...