Rationale:Ptosis is a rare complication of periocular steroid use. Studies report that local injections of steroids produce ptosis. We describe the first 2 cases of ptosis because of long-term treatment with topical steroid eye drops. Patient concerns: Two cases admitted to our hospital because of ptosis of their right eye after long-term treatment with topical steroid eye drops. Both of them h...

Clavicipitaceous fungal endophytes of the genera Epichloë and Neotyphodium form symbioses with grasses of the subfamily Pooideae, in which they can synthesize an array of bioprotective alkaloids. Some strains produce the ergopeptine alkaloid ergovaline, which is implicated in livestock toxicoses caused by ingestion of endophyte-infected grasses. Cloning and analysis of a nonribosomal peptide sy...

Brucella species are gram-negative bacteria which belong to alpha-Proteobacteria family. These organisms are zoonotic pathogens that induce abortion and sterility in domestic mammals and chronic infections in humans known as Malta fever. The virulence of Brucella is dependent upon its ability to enter and colonize the cells in which it multiplies. The genetic basis of this aspect is poorly unde...

Based on chirp transform and pulse compression technology, spectrometers (CTSs) can be used to perform high-resolution real-time spectrum measurements. Nowadays, they are widely applied for weather astronomical observations. The surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter is a key device compression. system performance significantly affected by the dispersion characteristics match large insertion loss o...

The Instance-Based Learning Theory (IBLT) suggests Recognition, the ability to discriminate among familiar classes of objects, is the first determinant of decision-making in complex tasks (Gonzalez, Lerch, & Lebiere, Conditionally accepted). According to IBLT, the main object of knowledge is an instance (described by the situation-decision-utility information). This paper investigates the acqui...

This paper reviews recent developments in the fundamental understating of ultrafine (nano) bubbles (NBs) and presents technological advances reagent types used for their generation flotation. The NBs using various approaches including ultrasonication, solvent exchange, temperature change, hydrodynamic cavitation, electrolysis was assessed. Most importantly, restrictions opportunities with respe...

Latent Problem Solving Analysis (LPSA) is a theory of knowledge representation in complex problem solving that argues that problem spaces can be represented as multidimensional spaces and expertise is the construction of those spaces from immense amounts of experience. The model was applied using a dataset from a longitudinal experiment on control of thermodynamic systems. When the system is tr...