PURPOSE To investigate the feasibility of estimating effective lens position (ELP) and calculating intraocular lens power using corneal height (CH), as measured using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT), in patients who have undergone corneal refractive surgery. METHODS This study included 23 patients (30 eyes) who have undergone myopic corneal refractive surgery and subseq...

BACKGROUND Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are a fascinating biomaterial that has undergone copious development for a variety of therapeutic applications including as a nanoscale drug delivery vehicle. A comprehensive understanding of ELP self-assembly is lacking and this knowledge gap impedes the advancement of ELP-based biomaterials into the clinical realm. The systematic examination of leuc...

One application of nanotechnology in medicine that is presently being developed involves a drug delivery system (DDS) employing nanoparticles to deliver drugs to diseased sites in the body avoiding damage of healthy tissue. Recently, the mild hyperthermia-triggered drug delivery combined with anticancer agent-loaded thermosensitive liposomes was widely investigated. In this study, thermosensiti...

Shear-thinning, self-healing hydrogels are promising vehicles for therapeutic cargo delivery due to their ability to be injected using minimally invasive surgical procedures. An injectable hydrogel using a novel combination of dynamic covalent crosslinking with thermoresponsive engineered proteins is presented. Ex situ at room temperature, rapid gelation occurs through dynamic covalent hydrazon...

Abstract This article examines the language ideologies undergirding university English admission requirements. Universities are today caught between order of nation state and that corporate globalization as they seek to attract both national international students. tension produces conflicting processes (converse) racialization linguistic (un)marking within which universities construct proficie...

Prostate cancer cells frequently overexpress the gastrin-releasing peptide receptor, and various strategies have been applied in preclinical settings to target this receptor for the specific delivery of anticancer compounds. Recently, elastin-like polypeptide (ELP)-based self-assembling micelles with tethered GRP on the surface have been suggested to actively target prostate cancer cells. Poorl...

Fluorescent quantum dots (QDs), because of their tunable spectral properties, are ideal for simultaneous multiplexed detection in an antibody array format. Despite these advantages, their widespread usage is limited by the costly and tedious conjugation and separation protocol. Herein, we report a simple platform for the direct conjugation and separation of highly luminescent CdSe-ZnS QD-antibo...

IN THE UNITED STATES, it has been estimated that more than 30 million people have chronic kidney disease (CKD), with the figure projected to rise significantly over the next 10 yr (4). CKD imposes substantial economic burden, accounting for an important proportion of the Medicare budget. Furthermore, patients with CKD have increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and end-stage renal ...

Let G(V; E) be a graph, and let ? be the drawing of G on the plane. We consider the problem of assigning text labels to every edge of G such that the quality of the label assignment is optimal. This problem has been rst encountered in automated cartography. Even though much eeort has been devoted over the last 15 years in the area of automated drawing of maps, the Edge Label Placement (ELP) pro...

Exogenous lipoid pneumonia (ELP) is a rare type of inflammatory lung disease caused by aspiration and/or inhalation of fatty substances and characterized by a chronic foreign body-type reaction to intra-alveolar lipid deposits. The usual clinical presentation occurs with insidious onset of nonspecific respiratory symptoms and radiographic findings that can mimic other pulmonary diseases. Diagno...