laparoscopy or minimally-invasive surgery is a surgical technique in which the surgical operations are performed via a few small incisions. this kind of surgery has fewer complications over open surgery. finding methods for shortening the time of laparoscopic surgeries can improve operating room efficiency. an approach to shortening the time of laparoscopic surgeries is identifying the interrup...

CONTACT lenses have interested me for a long time. A few years after the first world war I obtained some blown ones from Muller of Wiesbaden and managed to insert one under my eyelids. I did not know at that time about filling the lens with some saline and the visual and cosmetic results were such that they discouraged me from making further experiments. Zeiss contact lenses became available a ...

In this paper, we propose a novel method of object detection in bad weather conditions like Fog and smoke. It is based on statistical model of dark channel prior to estimate the thickness of the haze and physics based image restoration approach. Further applying simple image enhancement techniques improve the visibility of an obstacle in the line of sight. Using this prior with this imaging mod...

Visual speed is believed to be underestimated at low contrast, which has been proposed as an explanation of excessive driving speed in fog. Combining psychophysics measurements and driving simulation, we confirm that speed is underestimated when contrast is reduced uniformly for all objects of the visual scene independently of their distance from the viewer. However, we show that when contrast ...

The variations of visibility, PM-mass concentration and mixing-layer height (MLH) in four major urban/industry regions (Shenyang, Anshan, Benxi and Fushun) of central Liaoning in Northeast China are evaluated from 2009 to 2012 to characterize their dynamic effect on air pollution. The annual mean visibilities are about 13.7 ± 7.8, 13.5 ± 6.5, 12.8 ± 6.1 and 11.5 ± 6.8 km in Shenyang, Anshan, Be...

in view of the rapid expansion of contact lens amongst the users, new dimensions have been added to the domain of ophthalmology: giant papillay conjunctivitis, a disease caused by different kinds of contact lens, appears weeks or months after they are used, although some patients are struck years later. the predominant symptoms are increased awareness of lenses, ocular itching, blurred vision a...