IN 1899 Doyne described a fundus condition which he had observed in four sisters. The ophthalmoscopic appearance was of closely-grouped white spots involving the disc-macular area in a pattern he termed "Honeycomb". He believed the lesions were probably due to an exudate in the choroid, and therefore called the condition honeycomb choroiditis (Doyne, 1910), although it was shown shortly afterwa...

In 2004 a group of affective computing researchers proclaimed a manifesto of affective learning that outlined the prospects and white spots of research at that time. Ten years passed by and affective computing developed many methods and tools for tracking human emotional states as well as models for affective systems construction. There are multiple examples of affective methods applications in...

Psychophysical evidence is given for the existence of two distinct systems in human vision: a fast, sign-invariant system concerned with extracting contours and a slower, sign-sensitive system concerned with assigning surface color. A class of stimuli we developed seems to selectively activate the fast, contour system. This stimulus is formed by adjacent fields of black and white spots, which f...

Urban greenness is increasingly recognized as an essential constituent of the urban environment and can provide a range of services and enhance residents' quality of life. Understanding the pattern of urban greenness and exploring its spatiotemporal dynamics would contribute valuable information for urban planning. In this paper, we investigated the pattern of urban greenness in Hangzhou, China...

PURPOSE The present study investigated retinal integrity in high myopia using spatial psychophysical tasks. METHODS Ten axial high myopes (-8.5 to -11.5 D) and 10 age-matched control subjects (+/-1.0 D) were recruited. All participants underwent clinical examination and ocular biometry and demonstrated no visible macular disease with visual acuities better than 6/12. Foveal summation threshol...

The white-spotted globular bug Eysarcoris guttigerus (Thunberg) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is widely distributed in East Asia and the Pacific region. In Japan, the species is found in grassy or composite weeds in the western area of the main islands and Ryukyu Islands of Japan. One notable characteristic of the Eysarcoris genus is the two white spots on the scutellum. This is not the case with t...

Saliva buffering test is in need of improvements. This article illustrates the most commonly used saliva buffering capacity tests and its major problems. Starting with Ericsson and his laboratory buffer capacity test and all the way to Kitasako a lot of issues are to release. The aim of this paper is to put saliva buffering tests up to serious discussion.