PURPOSE To compare efficacy of a 1-day versus 3-day application of topical levofloxacin in reducing ocular surface bacteria. METHODS In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 100 volunteer patients (50 per group) were assigned to receive topical 0.5% levofloxacin four times daily for 1 day or 3 days. Conjunctival cultures were obtained prior to (T0) and after the application of antibio...

The Sharma–Mittal entropies generalize the celebrated Shannon, Rényi and Tsallis entropies. We report a closed-form formula for the Sharma–Mittal entropies and relative entropies for arbitrary exponential family distributions. We explicitly instantiate the formula for the case of the multivariate Gaussian distributions and discuss on its estimation. Q1 Q2 PACS numbers: 03.65.Ta, 03.67.−a (Some ...

Professor JeeLoo Liu Our common assumptions: 1. Things persist through time. 2. The familiar objects and persons with which we interact on a regular basis persist from day to day. 3. We ourselves are the same person as the one who existed yesterday and the day before.... The issue: What is it for a thing to persist through time? ___ Two theories: [A]. strict identity (one and the same thing) of...

Changes in psychomotor slowing were studied in 21 inpatients with a Major Depressive Episode. Fine motor retardation was measured and analysed using computer-aided drawing and figure-copying tasks at T0 (the start of 6 weeks treatment with fluoxetine 20 mg/day) and 5 weeks later (T1). The differences in reaction time between the patients and a group of healthy, matched controls at T0 had disapp...

Participants In December 2013, among all the patients below 18 years of age at first evaluation, present in the database, we selected those respecting the following inclusion criteria: • diagnosis of idiopathic or Scheuermann’s kyphosis • at least two clinical evaluations at the time of therapy start (T0) and stop (T1) • spinal X-rays (lateral projection) at the time T0 and T1 Treatments All pa...

In texture learning, observers are presented with repeated stimulations, resulting in within-day threshold elevation, as well as between day threshold reductions. Within-day deteriorations were shown to be location and orientation specific (Mednick et. al., 2002; Ofen et al., 2007). Accordingly, the declined performance was suggested to reflect sensory adaptation. Here we test whether extensive...

A study was conducted to determine the growth performance of Cobb broilers supplemented with varying concentrations of Moringa oleifera Aqueous Leaf Extract (MoALE) via the drinking water. A total of four hundred day-old chicks were randomly distributed into four treatment groups, replicated four times with twenty-five broilers per replicate. The growth performance of broilers was evaluated bas...

During the last 5 to 6 decades antibiotics have been used in an increasing amount in the field of poultry production. Antibiotics are used for treatments and as growth promoters. Now-a-days there is an increasing demand to produce antibiotic free poultry and livestock. For this purpose in my experiment the chickens were fed Probiotics at the first day before providing them any feed. In the case...

Single phase and strained LuMnO(3) thin films are discovered to display coexisting ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic orders. A large moment ferromagnetism (≈1μ(B)), which is absent in bulk samples, is shown to display a magnetic moment distribution that is peaked at the highly strained substrate-film interface. We further show that the strain-induced ferromagnetism and the antiferromagnetic o...

There are many axioms on the principal topological spaces. Two of the interesting axioms are the T0 and hyperconnected topological spaces. There is a well-known and straightforward correspondence (cf. [2]) between the topologies on finite set Xn of n points and reflexive transitive relations (preorders) on those sets. This paper generalizes this result, characterizes the principal hyperconnecte...