PURPOSE To test if patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have normal panretinal function using standardized full-field electroretinograms (ERGs). METHODS This is a retrospective study evaluating electroretinographic studies performed in patients with AMD to assess their panretinal function. Fifty-two individuals 55 years or older had standardized ERG testing and fundus photogra...

INTRODUCTION Malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea are leading causes of death in young children in Uganda. In 2010, Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) was adopted in Uganda for community level diagnosis and treatment of these diseases through community health workers. However, 50-60% of sick children will receive treatment from the private sector, especially drug shops. Only about half of ...

Taylor and Francis SEP_A_437580.sgm 10.1080/02691720903374026 Social Epistemology 0269-1728 (pri t)/1464-5297 (online) Original Article 2 0 & Francis 3 3/4 000July-December 200 Professor M amThalos m.th os@gm il.com On the classical instrumental view, practical reason is an all-things-considered enterprise, concerned not merely with identifying and evaluating appropriate means to the realizatio...

To an unappreciated degree, research both in operating systems and their programming languages has been severely hampered by the lack of cleanly reusable code providing mundane low-level OS infrastructure such as bootstrapcode and device drivers. The Flux OS Toolkit solves this problem by providing a set of clean, well-documented components. These components can be used as basic buildingblocks ...

UNLABELLED Talocalcaneal middle facet coalitions are associated with rigid pes planovalgus that often requires surgical intervention. Simple resection of the coalition is preferred for symptomatic cases in the absence of rearfoot arthritis. While resection of the coalition will remove the osseous restriction of motion and may eliminate pain, the procedure does not specifically correct the conco...

R. Askey has conjectured that if a system of orthogonal polynomials is defined by the three term recurrence relation xp„-,(x) = -^ p„(x) + an_xPn_x(x) + -^pn-2(x) In tn-\ and (-0 then the logarithm of the absolutely continuous portion of the corresponding weight function is integrable. The purpose of this paper is to prove R. Askey's conjecture...

This paper examines the problem of polygon digitizing, and suggests an inversion of the traditional approach for polygons of the environmental type, where each individual polygon, rather than its boundaries, is of primary interest. Many workers in geology, forestry, soil science, etc. have found the tedious specification of boundary arcs and their topological linkage and editing to be a major b...

The formal methods community has long known about the need to formally analyze concurrent software, but the OS community has been slow to adopt such methods. The foremost reasons for this are the cultural and knowledge gaps between formalists and OS hackers, fostered by three beliefs: inaccessibility of the tools, the disabling gap between the validated model and actual implementation, and the ...

Using MBESS to implement the Methods Discussed The methods discussed and developed in Kelley and Lai (2011a) are implemented with the freely available MBESS (Kelley, 2007a, 2007b; Kelley & Lai, 2011b) R (R Development Core Team, 2011) package.1 First, it is helpful to know that a confidence interval for ε can be formed with the function ci.rmsea(). To form a 95% confidence interval for εwhen ε̂ ...