The Internet Public Library (IPL) is crosswalking its metadata to Dublin Core compliant metadata. This involves several research activities, including: quantitative and qualitative analyses of the existing IPL metadata; the creation of a new IPL metadata schema as an application profile of Dublin core; the development of a new database structure; and the development and testing of a new metadat...

PURPOSE To evaluate the changes of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), ganglion cell layer (GCL), inner plexiform layer (IPL), and ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) thicknesses and compare structure-function relationships of 4 retinal layers using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) in macular region of glaucoma patients. METHODS In cross-sectional study, a total of ...

OBJECTIVE Cutaneous telangiectases are a characteristic and psychologically distressing feature of SSc. Our aim was to assess the efficacy of two light-based treatments: pulsed dye laser (PDL) and intense pulsed light (IPL). METHODS Nineteen patients with facial or upper limb telangiectases underwent three treatments with PDL and IPL (randomly assigned to left- and right-sided lesions). Outco...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To describe the introduction and use of intense pulsed light (IPL) to treat vascular and pigmented lesions comprising photorejuvenation and its use in photodynamic therapy. METHODS Review of the medical literature and the authors' experience with IPL. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS IPL is an excellent treatment modality for vascular and pigmented manifestations of photoagi...

Recently, the in-page logging (IPL) scheme has been proposed to improve the overall write performance of flash memory by avoiding costly erase operations that would be caused by small random write requests common in database applications. In this paper, we identify the problems inherent in the existing design of disk-based B-tree index, and present the design and implementation of the IPL B-tre...

Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) is a neuroactive substance that is expressed in both nonmammalian and mammalian retinas. This study investigated the morphology and synaptic connections of VIP-containing neurons in the guinea pig retina by immunocytochemistry, by using antisera against VIP. Specific VIP immunoreactivity was localized to a population of wide-field and regularly spaced ama...

An implant periapical lesion (IPL) is an infectious-inflammatory alteration surrounding an implant apex. In the English literature, the treatments for IPL have all been surgical methods. We present a case of successful treatment of an IPL with medical methods. A 36-year-old man underwent placement of two implants in the molar region of the right mandible. About one month later, the patient had ...

We correlated the morphology of salamander bipolar cells with characteristics of their light responses, recorded under voltage-clamp conditions. Twelve types of bipolar cells were identified, each displaying a unique morphology and level(s) of axon terminal stratification in the inner plexiform layer (IPL) and exhibiting light responses that differed with respect to polarity, kinetics, the rela...