Epithelial basement membrane dystrophy (EBMD) is the most common corneal dystrophy seen in clinical practice. Its appearance varies, which leads to frequent misdiagnosis, but presentation most often includes dot-like epithelial opacities, whorl-like fingerprint lines and circumscribed gray map-like patterns. It is for this reason that EBMD is also referred to as a map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy....

Radial Basis Function RBF Networks also known as networks of locally tuned processing units see are well known for their ease of use Most algorithms used to train these types of net works however require a xed architecture in which the number of units in the hidden layer must be determined before training starts The RCE training algorithm introduced by Reilly Cooper and Elbaum see and its proba...

Neural stem cells and progenitor cells migrate selectively to tumor loci in vivo. We exploited the tumor-tropic properties of HB1.F3.C1 cells, an immortalized cell line derived from human fetal telencephalon, to deliver the cDNA encoding a secreted form of rabbit carboxylesterase (rCE) to disseminated neuroblastoma tumors in mice. This enzyme activates the prodrug CPT-11 more efficiently than d...

PURPOSE The purpose of the present study is to determine the role of K+ channel activity as an early event in UV-induced corneal epithelial cell apoptosis. METHOD Both cell-attached and nystatin-perforated patch-clamping were performed to record K+ channel activity in rabbit corneal epithelial (RCE) and primary cultured rabbit corneal epithelial (PRCE) cells exposed to UV irradiation. On expo...

The effects of relative and absolute sea surface temperature (SST) on tropical cyclone potential intensity are investigated using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) single-column model. The model is run in two modes: (i) radiative–convective equilibrium (RCE) to represent the convective response to uniform warming of the ocean as in a homogeneous aqua planet, and (ii) weak temperat...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between the variation of the parameters of stimulation and the clinical effectiveness in parkinsonian patients treated with deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN), to provide information on the electrical parameter setting and the mechanism of action of deep brain stimulation. METHODS Ten patients with Parkinson's disease bilaterally impl...

Apart from its role as a flow generator for ventilation the diaphragm has a circulatory role. The cyclical abdominal pressure variations from its contractions cause swings in venous return from the splanchnic venous circulation. During exercise the action of the abdominal muscles may enhance this circulatory function of the diaphragm. Eleven healthy subjects (25 ± 7 year, 70 ± 11 kg, 1.78 ± 0.1...

AIM To investigate by electron microscopy the plane of separation of the epithelial sheet from its substratum in the procedure of alcohol delamination (ALD) in patients with recurrent corneal erosion syndrome. METHODS Ten cases of recurrent corneal erosions (RCE) secondary to trauma and seven cases related to map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy (MDFP) were treated with ALD. The epithelial sheets ob...

Residential CO2 emissions (RCE) are an important component of anthropogenic emissions. In order to formulate reasonable reduction policies and measures, it is necessary understand the dynamics RCE production factors that influence it. This paper explores spatiotemporal evolution characteristics from perspectives eastern, central, western China, as well urban–rural areas, analyzes driving based ...

We present a resonant-cavity-enhanced Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) fabricated on a reflecting siliconon-insulator (SOI) substrate. The substrate incorporates a two period distributed Bragg reflector fabricated using a commercially available double-SOI process. The resonant-cavity-enhanced (RCE) SPAD detectors have peak photon detection efficiencies ranging from 41% at 780nm to 32% at 85...