Purpose Characteristic ophthalmic signs of Thyroid Orbitopathy (TO) include exophthalmos, eyelid retraction, eyelid edema, restrictive extraocular myopathy, and optic neuropathy. In addition lacrimal gland (LG) enlargement can be observed in these patients. However TO has not usually been considered in the differential diagnosis of cases of isolated LG enlargement. Observations A female patie...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of KT on gastrocnemius surface electromyography (SEMG) activity and ankle range of motion during walking in healthy subjects. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial, with concealed allocation and assessor blinding. SETTING University Biomechanics Laboratory. PARTICIPANTS Thirty six healthy physiotherapy students were randomized to KT or control group. OUTCOME...

PURPOSE To investigate lacrimal gland (LG) immunophysiological and immune-mediated inflammatory process (IMIP) phenotype diversity. METHODS Ex vivo matured dendritic cells (mDC) were loaded with acinar cell microparticles (MP). Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) were activated in mixed cell reactions with mDC and injected directly into autologous, unilateral LG (1°ATD-LG) of two rabbit cohort...

BACKGROUND Low mean transvalvular gradient (<40 mm Hg) and small aortic valve area (<1.0 cm(2)) in patients with aortic stenosis (AS) and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction raises uncertainty about the actual severity of the stenosis and survival benefit of aortic valve replacement (AVR). OBJECTIVES This study analyzed studies of mortality and survival impact of AVR in patients with...

We present parallel algorithms for exact and approximate pattern matching with suffix arrays, using a CREW-PRAM with p processors. Given a static text of length n, we first show how to compute the suffix array interval of a given pattern of length m in O ( m p + lg p+ lg lg p · lg lgn ) time for p ≤ m. For approximate pattern matching with k differences or mismatches, we show how to compute all...

The high level of seismicity and dense network of short-period stations in Japan allows a detailed characterization of regional phase propagation. There are substantial differences depending on the location of the source and stations. Despite the structural complexity, Lg is clearly seen in many parts of Japan. Lg is particularly well developed in the western part of the main island, Honshu, an...

This paper studies relations between the parallel random access machine pram model and the recon gurable mesh rmesh model by providing mutual simulations between the models We present an algorithm simulating one step of an n lg lgn processor crcw pram on an n n rmesh with delay O lg lgn with high probability We use our pram simulation to obtain the rst e cient self simulation algorithm of an rm...

We develop succinct data structures to represent (i) a sequence of values to support partial sum and select queries and update (changing values) and (ii) a dynamic array consisting of a sequence of elements which supports insertion, deletion and access of an element at any given index. For the partial sums problem on n non-negative integers of k bits each, we support update operations in O(b) t...