AIMS To evaluate the relative merits of proxymetacaine-fluorescein (PROX-FLU) and lignocaine-fluorescein (LIG-FLU) when used to perform applanation tonometry. METHODS This prospective, masked, double blind study assessed several aspects of the tonometry process-the duration of the stinging sensation and degree of discomfort, the extent of reflex lacrimation induced, the need for subsequent te...

— In this paper, we deal with sweeping processes on (possibly infinitedimensional) Riemannian Hilbert manifolds. We extend the useful notions (proximal normal cone, prox-regularity) already defined in the setting of a Hilbert space to the framework of such manifolds. Especially we introduce the concept of local prox-regularity of a closed subset in accordance with the geometrical features of th...

Factors determining lymphatic differentiation in the adult organism are not yet well characterized. We have made the observation that mixed primary cultures of dermal blood endothelial cells (BEC) and lymphatic endothelial cells (LEC) grown under standard conditions change expression of markers during subculture: After passage 6, they uniformly express LEC-specific markers Prox-1 and podoplanin...

In recent years, nanostructured Au catalysts have attracted a lot of attention as potential candidates for the removal of poisonous carbon monoxide from synthesis gas streams, thus upgrading hydrogen gas to be used as fuel at the anode of lowtemperature fuel cells. The interest in Au nanoparticles has been motivated by the pioneering work of Haruta et al., who demonstrated the extremely high ac...

Nanocrystalline ceria has been considered as support for carbon monoxide preferentially oxidation. In this study ceria was prepared by precipitation method and the effects of preparation conditions, such as pH of solution (8-10), aging time (1-12 hr), drying temperature (80-120 °C), calcination time (2-6 hr) and temperature (400-600 °C) were investigated on ceria synthesized powders properties....