PURPOSE To study change in choroidal thickness (CT) after water drinking test (WDT), comparing angle closure (AC) to open angle (OA) eyes. METHODS Before and 30 minutes after drinking 1 L of water, 88 glaucoma subjects underwent measurements of CT by spectral domain-optical coherence tomography, IOP, blood pressure (BP), axial length (AL), and anterior chamber depth (ACD). RESULTS Baseline ...

Thermal stresses in three brands of inlay waxes were numerically analyzed under different cooling conditions using the rheological and thermal properties of waxes. On the basis of this analysis , the shrinkage of the wax pattern was calculated. The larger the stress relaxation of the wax and the higher the ambient temperature, the smaller the thermal stress induced in the wax. The shrinkage of ...

Gao and Sonin (1994) have proposed a method for rapid prototyping and microfabrication by precise deposition and solidification of molten microdrops. Objects can be fabricated by a drop-on-demand, computer-controlled droplet generator. To understand the fundamentals of droplet deposition and solidification, experiments have been conducted using microcrystalline wax droplets (Schiaffino and Soni...

AIM To assess the intraocular pressure (IOP) variability in patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) under clinical treatment who reached an established target pressure based on isolated office readings. METHODS Retrospective analysis of 65 eyes from 65 POAG patients under clinical therapy who submitted to modified diurnal tension curve (mDTC) (measurements at every 3 hours between 8 ...

The workplace drug testing (WDT) in USA is an established practice, carried out according to national guidelines for different purpose (as pre-employment screening, testing for cause, for scheduled categories of employers or random testing, etc.) [1-4] using either urine/blood or alternative matrices (oral fluid, hair, sweat, breath air) [5,6]. On the contrary, in Europe, the WDT is regulated b...

The thermodynamics of wax formation in crude oils is examined and additional insights obtained into the problem. We show that a correlation for cloud point, or wax apppearance temperature, obtained for pure-substance waxes may be extended to mixtures of hydrocarbons, thereby generalising the usefulness of the correlation. We apply the colligative equation for freezing point depression to quanti...

The oil content of the wax produced in a dewaxing process is the key economic parameter that should be reduced as much as possible. Some factors such as the type of solvents, cooling rate, temperature, and solvent to oil ratio influence the dewaxing process. Due to the fact that crude oil differs from place to place and since the operational conditions for wax extraction vary for different type...

OBJECTIVES One of the most frequent complications in cardiac surgery is postoperative bleeding from the sternum. To diminish the risk of bleeding, bone wax is frequently used for haemostasis. However, we have previously shown that bone wax impairs bone healing and induces inflammation in the sternum. A new, water-soluble polymer wax enriched with gentamicin has haemostatic properties similar to...

A fundamental study of the deposition and aging of a thin incipient wax-oil gel that is formed during the flow of waxy oils in cooled pipes was performed. The solubility of high molecular weight paraffins in naphthenic, aromatic or paraffinic sol®ents is ®ery low and decreases rapidly with decreasing temperature. This property of the paraffins leads to the formation of gels of complex morpholog...

This report contains the results of attempting to improve on the results of Scott R. Sawyer and Alan M. L’Esperance research paper “Investigation of Paraffin Wax as an Energy Storage Medium Within a Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger.” The overall goal of the paper mentioned was to investigate the usefulness of wax as an energy storage medium. Scott R. Sawyer and Alan M. L’Esperance determined that ...