The results of a number of recent studies indicate that eye development in insects and vertebrates may have more features in common than hitherto suspected. The results support the possibility that insect and vertebrate eyes evolved from a complex ancestral organ.

It is indeed a challenge to precisely define the term ‘complimentary and alternative medicine‘ or CAM. The National Institute of Health in the United States defines CAM as: ‘Complementary and Alternative medicine is a broad domain of resources that encompasses health systems, modalities and practices and their accompanying theories and beliefs, other than those intrinsic to the dominant h...

Any application requiring fast searches of databases, lists or lookup tables can be extensively improved by the use of content addressable memory (CAM). CAM provides faster performance over RAM by comparing the desired information against the entire data simultaneously [1]. CAM is not only suitable for database applications, it is also highly applicable to several networking applications. That ...

The HET-CAM (Hen's Egg Test-Chorioallantoic Membrane) assay is an in vitro alternative to the in vivo Draize Rabbit Eye test that mimics vascular changes in the chorioallantoic membrane. This qualitative method assesses the irritancy potential of chemicals. The CAM responds to injury with an inflammatory process similar to that in the rabbit eye's conjunctival tissue. Regarding topical toxicity...

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