purpose: to determine anterior chamber depth (ac depth) changes during a 6 month period after phacoemulsification cataract surgery and foldable intraocular lens (iol) implantation. methods: in a cross-sectional study, 85 eyes of 85 patients were evaluated for ac depth and capsulo-rrhexis size one and six months after the procedure. results: patients included 44 male and 41 female subjects with ...

Time interleaved A/D converters (ADCs) can be used to increase the sample rate of an ADC system. However, a problem with time interleaved ADCs is that distortion is introduced in the output signal due to various mismatch errors between the ADCs. One way to decrease the impact of the mismatch errors is to introduce additional ADCs in the interleaved structure and randomly select an ADC at each s...

We introduce Action-Constrained Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (AC-POMDP), which arose from studying critical robotic applications with damaging actions. AC-POMDPs restrict the optimized policy to only apply feasible actions: each action is feasible in a subset of the state space, and the agent can observe the set of applicable actions in the current hidden state, in addition to s...

Matrix converter is basically direct three phase to three phase converter and it’s operation is based upon switching pattern of all nine switches, which are available in this converter. The output of ac converter is fed as the input of three phase induction motor. The performance of three phase matrix converter fed induction motor drive is analyzed by the switching pattern obtained by matrix co...

In calorimetry and particularly in heat capacity measurements, different characteristic relaxation time constants may perturb the experiment which cannot be considered at thermodynamic equilibrium. In this case, thermodynamics of irreversible processes has to be taken into account and the calorimetric measurements must be considered as dynamic. In a temperature modulated experiment, such as ac-...

BACKGROUND Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has recently been shown to play an important role in the digestive system, but the role of endogenous H2S produced locally in the gallbladder is unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate whether gallbladder possesses the enzymatic machinery to synthesize H2S, and whether H2S synthesis is changed in gallbladder inflammation during acute acalculous cholec...

Recent work in Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1993, to appear) has suggested that phonological regularities can be explained without reference to phonological rules, strictly in terms of constraints on representational wellformedness. A unique aspect of Optimality Theory (OT) is that candidates are evaluated in parallel: there is no serial derivation. Given th...

Ausgehend von Thomas Nagels Aufsatz " What is it like to be a bat? " und Alan Turings Aufsatz " Computing machinery and intelligence " wird argumentiert, das eine erfolgreiche Interaktion von Menschen und autonomen artifiziellen Agenten vor allem darauf beruht, welche Eigenschaften Menschen jenen Agenten zuschreiben und nicht so sehr, ob diese Agenten jene Eigenschaften wirklich besitzen. Diese...

Alan Turing begins his 1950 Mind article, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” with the following straightforward pronouncement: “I propose to consider the question ‘Can machines think?’ ” He quickly (too quickly?) argues for “replacing” the original question with another “which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words.” (Please note the vagueness of the clai...