Report keratoconus in two patients with a long history of wrestling without any risk factor for corneal ectasia and reviewing the possible pathogenesis. To confirm suspicion of keratoconus, corneal topography was performed using scanning slit topography system and Orbscan. In two wrestlers with the complaint of visual loss in their eyes and IOP raising, corneal topography was performed and de...

This paper reports on the yield and nutritional trends over 61 years as affected by various treatments (trashed, burnt with tops either left or removed and all plots either fertilised or not fertilised) of the burning and trashing trial (BT1) at Mount Edgecombe. The overall mean residual yield benefit due to trashing was 9.3 tc/ha/an after 39 crops. The capacity of the Arcadia soil form (Vertis...

a serious loophole for criminals. To avoid detection in cases of poisoning, criminals often resort to the practice of rapid cremation of the bodies of the poisoned persons. It is usually not possible to detect alkaloids and other organic or volatile poisons in burnt bones and ashes; and it is often contended on behalf of the accused that -it is impossible to detect arsenic in burnt bones and as...

At present, there is no conventional scientific method to evaluate the area of the burnt regions of forests and in this field, the related organizations use different methods and variables. Also, the speed in performing the processes of area computing and damage evaluation, especially in the extensive damaged forest regions is very slow; consequently, the expression of results takes more ti...

The strong matching preclusion number of a graph is the minimum number of vertices and edges whose deletion results in a graph that has neither perfect matchings nor almost-perfect matchings. This is an extension of the matching preclusion problem that was introduced by Park and Ihm. The burnt pancake graph is a more complex variant of the pancake graph. In this talk, we examine the properties ...

Recently, research on parallel processing systems is very active, and many complex topologies have been proposed. A burnt pancake graph is one such topology. In this paper, we prove that a faulty burnt pancake graph with degree n has a fault-free Hamiltonian cycle if the number of faulty elements is no more than n − 2, and it has a fault-free Hamiltonian path between any pair of non-faulty node...

Pancake Flipping is the problem of sorting a stack of pancakes of different sizes (that is, a permutation), when the only allowed operation is to insert a spatula anywhere in the stack and to flip the pancakes above it (that is, to perform a prefix reversal). In the burnt variant, one side of each pancake is marked as burnt, and it is required to finish with all pancakes having the burnt side d...

The summer season of 2003 in Continental Portugal was by far the worst in what respects both to the number of forest fires and the amount of burnt area. In the present work, burnt area monitoring was performed using NOAA/AVHRR imagery by means of a neuro-fuzzy (ANFIS) algorithm that was applied on an operational basis to the surface of the country. Validation of obtained results was performed b...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of repeated dry season annual hot fires on woody plants in a semi-arid southern African savanna in Zimbabwe. Parts of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) research fields in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe have been burnt annually in the dry season between 1994 and 2003 in order to control bush encroachment. The present study was...