purpose: to compare the short and long-term efficacy and complications of releasable suture vs conventional interrupted suture for scleral flap in trabeculectomy. methods: in a prospective randomized clinical trial, 42 eyes of 42 consecutive patients requiring trabeculectomy for uncontrolled primary glaucoma underwent conventional trabeculectomy (group a) and trabeculectomy with releasable sutu...

Let p:M → B be a family of compact manifolds equipped with a unitarily flat vector bundle F → M . We generalize Igusa’s higher Franz-Reidemeister torsion τ(M/B;F ) to the case that the fibre-wise cohomologyH(M/B;F ) → B carries a parallel metric. If moreover M admits a fibre-wise Morse function, we compute the difference of τ(M/B;F ) and the higher analytic torsion T (M/B;F ). We also generalis...

This paper presents the results of the analysis of 56,000 flat grids in a form suitable for minimum weight design.

Flat rate regime is held responsible for this state of affairs and a shift to universal metering is being pushed as remedy. However, metering can work only by creating power retailing entrepreneurs as is being tried out in Orissa. Flat tariff regime can also serve the purpose, provided it is tied to effective supply policies. Judicious rationing and reasonable tariff are essential components of...

For a gerbe $\mathcal{Y}$ over smooth proper Deligne–Mumford stack $\mathcal{B}$ banded by finite group $G$, we prove structure result on the Gromov–Witten theory of $\mathcal{Y}$, expressing invariants in terms twisted various flat $U(1)$‑gerbes $\mathcal{B}$. This can be viewed as Leray–Hirsch type for gerbes.

Bonamia ostreae is an intracellular protistan parasite affecting flat oysters Ostrea edulis. It can be detected in juveniles but mortalities mainly affect oysters which are more than 2 years old. The parasite is usually observed inside haemocytes and sometimes free, notably in gill epithelia suggesting a parasite release through this organ. However, the infective form and ways of entry and rele...

We derive the exact insulator ground states of projected Hamiltonian magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) flat bands with Coulomb interactions in various limits, and study perturbations away from these limits. define (first) chiral limit where AA stacking hopping is zero, a exactly bands. In chiral-flat limit, TBG has U(4)$\times$U(4) symmetry, we find that at integer filling $-4\le \nu\l...