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Editorial Manager(tm) for Cornea Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: CORNEA-D-06-00395R1 Title: COMPLICATED FLAP CREATION WITH FEMTOSECOND LASER AFTER RADIAL KERATOTOMY

Purpose: To report a case of LASIK using Intralase® due to residual myopic astigmatism, 14 years after radial keratotomy. Methods: Thirty-nine years-old male patient who had undergone bilateral RK operation for myopic correction was admitted to Turkiye Hospital, for the correction of the residual refractive error in his left eye. The manifest refraction was -1.25(-3.00@175), UCVA was 20/50 and BCVA was 20/20 on left eye. The keratometric measurements were 38.40D@92o, 35.40D@2o. The central and thinnest pachymetry measurements by Orbscan were 582μ and 576μ, respectively. LASIK operation with femtosecond laser flap formation was planned for the left eye. Results: Intralase® lost suction during flap formation. After device control, flap could be formed at the same intracorneal plane. During flap lifting, RK incisions were separated and one of them progressed to the corneal center with the force applied by the blunt spatula. No sectoral piece separated completely from the flap. Excimer laser treatment and flap re-positioning could be done without any problem. Postoperatively, all RK incisions appeared to be well aligned. The iron deposits around the radial incision at the central cornea spared the optic axis. There was no haze or epithelial in-growth. Conclusions: This case showed that Intralase® does not have unique benefit as opposed to the mechanical keratome for post-RK eyes. We recommend that femtosecond laser flap formation should be regarded with great caution in post-RK eyes. The suction performance of the device should be checked before the procedure and flap lifting maneuvers should be very cautious. * Copyright Transfer Form Click here to download high resolution image * Copyright Transfer Form Click here to download high resolution image
Stabilizacija meuzonskih oscilacija elektroenergetskih sistema primenom regulatora na distribuiranim energetskim resursima

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Pilot Neuroimaging Study in Civilian Trauma Survivors

Despite its hypothesized role in the etiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), little research has investigated neural correlates of episodic memory impairment in trauma survivors. This pilot study utilized a correlational design to investigate the association between PTSD symptom severity, hippocampal volume, episodic memory, and brain activation during the Remember-Know task. Eleven non-medicated, right-handed survivors of civilian trauma participated in the study. Significant positive correlations were found between PTSD symptom severity and the activation of brain areas implicated in the episodic recognition network such as hippocampus, precuneus, and occipital gyrus. Higher PTSD symptoms were also significantly negatively correlated with brain activations in areas associated with episodic memory but also visuospatial attention such as the superior parietal lobule and the supramarginal gyrus. The pattern of results indicates specific alterations in the recruitment of the episodic memory networ.
Musical Instruments, Body Movement, Space, and Motion Data: Music as an Emergent Multimodal Choreography

: Music is a complex multimodal medium experienced not only via sounds but also through body movement. Musical instruments can be seen as technological objects coupled with a repertoire of gestures. We present technical and conceptual issues related to the digital representation and mediation of body movement in musical performance. The paper reports on a case study of a musical performance where motion sensor technologies tracked the movements of the musicians while they played their instruments. Motion data were used to control the electronic elements of the piece in real time. It is suggested that computable motion descriptors and machine learning techniques are useful tools for interpreting motion data in a meaningful manner. However, qualitative insights regarding how human body movement is understood and experienced are necessary to inform further development of motion-capture technologies for expressive purposes. Thus, musical performances provide an effective test bed for new modalities of human–computer interaction.
Half Sync/half Async

Example An operating system is a widely-used example of a complex concurrent system that manages many different types of applications and hardware. For instance, it coordinates and demultiplexes the communication between standard Internet networking applications, such as telnet , ftp , smtp , dns , and inetd , and hardware I/O devices, such as network interfaces, disk controllers, end-user terminals, and printers. The operating system is responsible for managing the scheduling, communication, protection, and memory allocation of all its concurrently executing applications and hardware devices.
On fibrations whose geometric fibers are nonreduced

Abstract We give a bound on embedding dimensions of geometric generic fibers in terms of the dimension of the base, for fibrations in positive characteristic. This generalizes the well-known fact that for fibrations over curves, the geometric generic fiber is reduced. We illustrate our results with Fermat hypersurfaces and genus 1 curves.
Humorous Similes

Humorous descriptions are often couched in the form of a simile, whose flexible frame allows an author to yoke a topic to a perspective that is at once both incongruously different yet appropriately similar. Humorous similes exhibit all the commonly accepted hallmarks of verbal humour, from linguistic ambiguity to expectation violation and appropriate incongruity. But so too do non-humorous poetic similes, which exhibit an equal tendency for the ingenious and the incongruous. What then separates humorous similes from the broader class of creative similes, and can their signature characteristics, if any, be expressed via the presence or absence of specific formal, structural or semantic features? To address these questions, we describe the construction of a very large database of creative similes, and present the results of an initial empirical analysis upon this data-set. Our results are two-fold: humorous similes exhibit many of the same structural and semantic features that are considered characteristic of poetic similes, though none appears either necessary or sufficient to make a simile not just creative, but humorously creative; nonetheless, similes that employ either irony or ridicule (or both) are often explicitly marked with a marker of semantic imprecision such as “about”. We go on to show that “about”-marked similes typically exhibit an identifiable affective signature that further telegraphs an author’s humorous intent to the intended audience of the simile.
The abundances of atomic carbon and carbon monoxide compared with visual extinction in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud complex

We have observed emission from the 492 GHz lines of C I toward six positions in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud complex for which accurate visual extinctions are available. We find that the column density of C I increases with A_v to greater than 2 x 10^(17) cm^(-2) at 100 mag, the column-averaged fractional abundance reaches a peak of about 2.2 x 10^(-5) for A_v in the range 4-11 mag and the column-averaged abundance ratio of C I to CO decreases with A_v from about 1 at 2 mag to greater than ~0.03 at 100 mag. These results imply that, while C I is not the primary reservoir of gaseous carbon even at cloud edges, its fractional abundance remains high for at least 10 mag into the cloud and may be significant at even greater depths.
Hierarchical Clustering Using Evolutionary Algorithms

Clustering is an important technique used in the simplification of data sets or in discovering some inherent structure present in data. The purpose of cluster analysis is to partition a given data set into a number of groups such that data in a particular cluster are more similar to each other than objects in different clusters (Jain & Dubes, 1998). Clustering in data mining is a discovery process that groups a set of data such that the intracluster similarity is maximized and the intercluster similarity is minimized. These discovered clusters can be used to explain the characteristics of the AbstrAct
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Are Bubblestream Whistles Unrepresentative of Bottlenose Dolphin Whistle Repertoires?

Fripp (2005) discusses a common difficulty facing researchers of dolphin vocal behavior in identifying which dolphin in a group is vocalizing. Her discussion focuses on one method used by previous researchers (e.g., McCowan 1995; McCowan and Reiss 1995a, b, 2001;1 McCowan et al. 1998; Miksis et al. 2002) to identify the vocalizing individual under captive conditions, namely the use of bubblestream emission concurrent with whistle production. She identifies three major problems with the use of bubblestreams for evaluating dolphin whistle repertoires: (1) bubblestreams are not independent, (2) bubblestream use is context-dependent, and (3) bubblestream whistles are not representative of the repertoire. While I generally agree with Fripp (2005) that more modern methods (such as hydrophone arrays) for identifying vocalizers under captive and especially field conditions should be used when possible, I think it is equally important to point out that the data comparisons and resulting interpretations regarding bubblestream whistles in her paper seem problematic. Each of Fripp’s (2005) arguments are addressed below.
Car Ownership and Access to Jobs in Spain

This study analyses the impact that job accessibility in public transport has on car ownership. An ordered probit explaining the number of cars per household is estimated as a function of head of household characteristics, household characteristics and job accessibility. The data used in the analysis come from the Microcensus of year 2001 of the Spanish Institute of Statistics for the areas of Barcelona and Madrid. Our results show a significant effect of accessibility on car ownership. Additionally, we carried out simulation exercises in which the expected number of vehicles decreases as accessibility improves. For instance, in the case of households living outside the central city, an improvement of accessibility up to the average level of the central city would offset the effect of the number of working adults on the expected number of vehicles.
A Paradigm Shift in Myocardial Stunning

this lateralization may result in a change in anisotropy, which was supported by our rat model. In that model a higher degree of lateralization was seen than observed in human chronic AF. However, it is difficult to extrapolate from the rat experiments to the human immunostaining results, for we cannot know how much of the protein positively staining for connexins resembles functional channels. In the rat model did we observe both lateralization and changes in anisotropy. However, we completely agree with van der Velden and colleagues that inhomogenicities in connexin distribution as described in their study in a goat model (3) should have a high impact on the biophysics of the tissue. In contrast to our findings in humans, they describe a decrease in Cx40, which from our point of view might either be due to species difference or to the fact that they investigated goat atria during the first 16 weeks of sustained pacing, while we investigated chronic AF of one-year duration in patients.
Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Effective Image Analysis

This master thesis presents the process of designing and implementing a CNN-based architecture for image recognition included in a larger project in the field of fashion recommendation with deep learning. Concretely, the presented network aims to perform localization and segmentation tasks. Therefore, an accurate analysis of the most well-known localization and segmentation networks in the state of the art has been performed. Afterwards, a multi-task network performing RoI pixel-wise segmentation has been created. This proposal solves the detected weaknesses of the pre-existing networks in the field of application, i.e. fashion recommendation. These weaknesses are basically related with the lack of a fine-grained quality of the segmentation and problems with computational efficiency. When it comes to improve the details of the segmentation, this network proposes to work pixelwise, i.e. performing a classification task for each of the pixels of the image. Thus, the network is more suitable to detect all the details presented in the analysed images. However, a pixel-wise task requires working in pixel resolution, which implies that the number of operations to perform is usually large. To reduce the total number of operations to perform in the network and increase the computational efficiency, this pixel-wise segmentation is only done in the meaningful regions of the image (Regions of Interest), which are also computed in the network (RoI masks). Then, after a study of the more recent deep learning libraries, the network has been successfully implemented. Finally, to prove the correct operation of the design, a set of experiments have been satisfactorily conducted. In this sense, it must be noted that the evaluation of the results obtained during testing phase with respect to the most well-known architectures is out of the scope of this thesis as the experimental conditions, especially in terms of dataset, have not been suitable for doing so. Nevertheless, the proposed network is totally prepared to perform this evaluation in the future, when the required experimental conditions are available.
Materials for Biomedical Applications

International customers, please contact your local Sigma-Aldrich office. For worldwide contact information, please see back cover. Material Matters is also available in PDF format on the Internet at sigma-aldrich.com/matsci. Aldrich brand products are sold through Sigma-Aldrich, Inc. Sigma-Aldrich, Inc. warrants that its products conform to the information contained in this and other Sigma-Aldrich publications. Purchaser must determine the suitability of the product for its particular use. See reverse side of invoice or packing slip for additional terms and conditions of sale. All prices are subject to change without notice. Introduction Welcome to the third 2010 issue of Material Matters™ entitled " Materials for Biomedical Applications, " which highlights exciting scientific developments at the interface between the disciplines of materials science, medicine, chemistry, and biology. Professor David F. Williams (University of Liverpool) succinctly defines biomaterials as " nonviable materials used in medical devices, intended to interact with biological systems. " In fact, biomaterials are rarely used as isolated materials but are more commonly integrated into devices or implants. The biological response to the final fabricated biomedical device will ultimately govern its success or failure. The field's rapid growth over the last half century was driven by advances in materials synthesis techniques combined with a rigorous application of engineering principles to the design of materials expressly for biomedical applications. Some of the developments and key enabling materials are presented in this issue. The issue begins with an article by Professors Françoise Winnik (University of Montreal) and Teruo Okano (Tokyo Women's Medical University) on the use of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) as a thermally responsive grafting material for the harvesting of cell cultures used in tissue engineering. In the following article, Professor Mariah Hahn (Texas A&M University) describes the methods available to achieve 2D and 3D patterning of poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels in order to control the placement of biochemical cues that guide the development of functional tissues. Professor David Martin and his colleagues from the University of Delaware discuss electrical interfacing of tissues with implantable electrostimulation devices using conjugated thiophene polymers. Moving toward new R&D opportunities for materials engineers, Professors James Stansbury and Christopher Bowman (University of Colorado) describe recent progress in the development of monomers and polymers for dental restorative composites. Currently, many of the composite materials are engineered at the nanoscale. To conclude the issue, a research team led by Professors Andre Nel and Jeffrey Zink from UCLA reports on their high-throughput strategy for …
Minimum Augmentation of a Tree to a K-edge- 5.2 the Parallel Implementation 5 the Complete Parallel Algorithm and Its Implementation

The minimum augmentation of a directed tree to a k-edge-The minimum augmentation of any graph to a k-edge-36 algorithm to nd a smallest augmentation to biconnect a graph. Our sequential algorithm corrects an error in an earlier algorithm proposed for this problem in Rosenthal & Goldner 18]. Our parallel algorithm is new, and it runs in O(log 2 n) time using a linear number of processors on an EREW PRAM. Although the parallel algorithm follows the overall structure of our sequential algorithm, the parallelization of some of the steps required new insights into the problem. Our parallel algorithm can be made to run within the same time bound using a sublinear number of processors by using the algorithm for nding connected components in 3] and the algorithm for integer sorting in 9]. 35 The parallel versions of stage 1 and stage 2 are described in Section 4.1 and Section 4.2, respectively. In stage 3, the children-permutation procedure can be done in time O(log n) using a linear number of processors on an EREW PRAM by calling the parallel merge sort routine in Cole 2] and using the Euler tour technique in Tarjan & Vishkin 23] to restructure and normalize the tree. To perform functions case1, case2 and par update, we need the following procedures. A procedure that numbers leaves in the tree from left to right or from right to left. For each vertex v in a tree, nd the number and the set of leaves in the subtree rooted at v. For a vertex v in a tree, nd the leftmost leaf of each subtree rooted at a child of v. For a tree T with a set of edges S added between leaves in T, compute: { the number of cycles that pass through a vertex in T S; { the set of vertices in a cycle in T S. All of these procedures can be done in O(log n) time using a linear number of processors on an EREW PRAM by using the Euler technique in Tarjan & Vishkin 23] and procedures in Schieber & Vishkin 19]. From Corollary 6, Corollary 9 and Corollary 11, we know that algorithm par bca removes at least a quarter of the leaves in the current block graph during each execution of the do loop. Initially, the number of leaves is at most n. Hence the main do loop in algorithm …
Electrophysiology of Supramedullary Neurons in Spheroides maculatus

Intimate study of the electrical activity of various types of excitable cells, which has become possible with the use of intracellular recording, has disclosed numerous degrees of complexity in the phenomena by which bioelectric activity is produced. Excluding the different varieties of electrically inexcitable electrogenesis (28), and limiting consideration only to the electrically excitable form, several previously unsuspected phenomena have been observed. Different portions of the cell membrane have different excitabilities (3, 6, 7, 13, 17, 20, 24). Indeed, some parts of the cell may not respond to stimuli with spikes (2, 9, 22, 23, 40, 54). In the giant neurons of Aplysia or Helix small responses, "pseudo pointes" (53), may be recorded. In some varieties of cells, graded responses are produced either in the normal activity (11, 12, 30) or as a result of experimental conditions (1, 26, 27). As is shown in the present series of papers (4, 5), the large supramedullary neurons (SMC) of an Atlantic puffer, Spheroides maculatus, exhibit some of these complexities. The SMC offer a number of advantages for an attack upon several of these matters not only because of their size and superficial location. The cell body has only one large extension, a neurite which branches to form a number of unmyelinated axons (4). Thus, complications in the electrical circuit properties introduced by a myelinated segment, or by numerous dendritic arborizations (cf. references 16, 19, 22, 46) should be absent. These properties, both the active as well as the passive, form the subject of this paper, Part II of the present series.
DELAYED SKIP CONNECTIONS FOR MUSIC CONTENT DRIVEN MOTION GENERATION

In this study, we employ skip connections into a deep recurrent neural network for modeling basic dance steps using audio as input. Our model consists of two blocks, one encodes the audio input sequences, and another generates the motion. The encoder uses a configuration called convolutional, long short-term memory deep neural network (CLDNN) which handle the power features of audio. Furthermore, we implement skip connections between the contexts of music encoder and motion decoder (i.e. delayed skip) for consistent motion generation. The experimental results show that the trained model generate predictive basic dance steps from a narrow dataset with low error and maintains similar motion beat fscore to the baseline dancer.