A 29‐year‐old male patient presented with decreased vision for 2 years following electrocution injury (electric cables with 25000 volts). No significant family or ocular history was elicited. He was diagnosed to have pigmentary retinopathy in both eyes clinically. Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 6/12, N8 in the right eye and 6/18, N8 in the left eye. Anterior segment examination reveale...

AIMS There is increasing awareness of the needs of children with low vision, particularly in developing countries where programmes of integrated education are being developed. However, appropriate low vision services are usually not available or affordable. The aims of this study were, firstly, to assess the need for spectacles and optical low vision devices in students with low vision in schoo...

The geometric small property (Borho-MacPherson [BM]) of projective morphisms implies a description of their singularities in terms of intersection homology. In this paper we solve the smallness problem raised by Nakajima [N8, N6] for certain resolutions of quiver varieties [N8] (analogs of the Springer resolution) : for Kirillov-Reshetikhin modules of simply-laced quantum affine algebras, we ch...

Muller, Judy M., Michael J. Davis, Lih Kuo, and William M. Chilian. Changes in coronary endothelial cell Ca21 concentration during shear stressand agonist-induced vasodilation. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H1706–H1714, 1999.—Increases in intraluminal shear stress are thought to cause vasodilation of coronary arterioles by activation of Ca21-dependent endothelial nitric oxide s...

Using highly precise and accurate Monte Carlo simulations of 20,000,000 replications and 102 independent simulation experiments with extremely low simulation errors and total uncertainties, we evaluated the performance of four single outlier discordancy tests (Grubbs test N2, Dixon test N8, skewness test N14, and kurtosis test N15) for normal samples of sizes 5 to 20. Statistical contaminations...

8-(dimethylamino)-N,N-dimethyl-naphthalen-1-aminium hydrogenterephthalate (PSH+TPAH-) and 8-(dimethylamino)-N,N-dimethylnaphthalen-1-aminium hydrogen-terephthalate hydrate (PSH+TPAH-·H2O) were prepared by the direct reaction of N1,N1,N8,N8-tetra-methyl-naphthalene-1,8-di-amine, Proton Sponge (PS) © terephthalic acid (TPAH2) in a 1:1 stoichiometric relation. The structure both salts is constru...

We present a photoemission study of the electronic properties of organic-inorganic semiconductor heterojunctions formed between the two hole transport materials, N,N8-diphenyl-N, N8-bis~1-naphthyl!-1-18biphenyl-4,49diamine ~a-NPD! and copper-phthalocyanine ~CuPc!, and InP~110!. The highest occupied molecular orbital of a-NPD ~CuPc! is found to be 0.2 eV below ~0.2 eV above! the InP valence band...

The effect of an exocyclic substituent on the ionization potential of primaquine, an important antimalarial drug, was investigated using density functional theory methods. It was found that an electron-donating group (EDG) makes the ionization potential decrease. In contrast, an electron-withdrawing group (EWG) makes the ionization potential increase. Among all the exocyclic positions, a substi...

Evidence obtained from experiments with rats and mice is presented suggesting that the naturally occurring amino acids putreanine and N8-(2-carboxyethyl)spermidine, and most probably also related compounds deriving from the polyamines spermidine and spermine by oxidative metabolism, are formed within two anatomical compartments. In the first step polyamines are converted into aldehydes by serum...