Olfactory sensitivity of the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann, to compounds isolated from the mid/hindguts of newly emerged conspecific adults was assayed with coupled gas chromatography-electroantennographic detection. All previously reported pheromones for D. frontalis plus eight additional compounds (fenchyl alcohol, myrtenal, cis-verbenol, trans-pinocarveol, acetophen...

OBJECTIVE Electromyogram (EMG) contamination is often a problem in electroencephalogram (EEG) recording, particularly, for those applications such as EEG-based brain-computer interfaces that rely on automated measurements of EEG features. As an essential prelude to developing methods for recognizing and eliminating EMG contamination of EEG, this study defines the spectral and topographical char...

We present the case report of a 95-year-old white female with a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) of the upper eyelid. Due to her comorbid medical problems, multidisciplinary tumor board recommendation for treatment was surgical excision. She underwent excision with frontalis muscle flap and contralateral eyelid full thickness skin graft reconstruction. The patient has been symptom free for 3.5 ...

Eyelid anatomy, including thickness measurements, was examined in numerous age groups. The thickest part of the upper eyelid is just below the eyebrow (1.127±238 µm), and the thinnest near the ciliary margin (320±49 µm). The thickness of skin at 7 mm above the eyelashes was 860±305 µm. The results revealed no significant differences among the age groups. Fast fibers (87.8±3.7%) occupied a signi...

The southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis, is among the most important agents of ecological disturbance and economic loss in forests of the south-eastern United States. We combined physiological measurements of insect temperature responses with climatic analyses to test the role of temperature in determining the northern distribution limits of D. frontalis. Laboratory measurements of low...

BACKGROUND Treatments for severe blepharoptosis are well documented and include the most common operations for restoring upper eyelid ptosis, which are levator surgery and frontal muscle transfers; however, the choice of treatment is still controversial. There are different approaches to the restoration of upper eyelid ptosis, and the choice will be based on ptosis severity and the surgeon's sk...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether injection with botulinum toxin type A (Botox; Allergan Inc, Irvine, California) reconstituted with preservative-free saline (0.9% isotonic sodium chloride) after 2-week cold storage in a refrigerator (4 degrees C) or freezer (-20 degrees C) is less efficacious than injection with freshly reconstituted Botox. METHODS We conducted a prospective, double-blind, rand...

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An 86 year-old woman suffered a left internal capsule stroke one month before these photos. She had right facial weakness along with mild right arm and leg weakness as residua. Six years earlier she had had a left sided Bell’s palsy with an excellent recovery. Photo A shows a mildly increased right palpebral fissure and mildly reduced right naso-labial fold. These findings indicate mild facial ...