bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Topical Apraclonidine on Subconjunctival Hemorrhage and Flap Adherence in LASIK Patients
Authors: Aslanides loannis M , Tsiklis Nikolaos S , Ozkilic Efekan , Coskunseven Efekan , Pallikaris loannis C , Jankov Mirko R 
Published: December 2018

ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To determine whether the use of topical apraclonidine just before the LASIK procedure prevents subconjunctival hemorrhage and to study its effect on postoperative flap adherence.
METHODS: Topical apraclonidine 0.125% was randomly applied to 1 eye of 66 myopic patients who underwent primary bilateral LASIK. Apraclonidine was instilled 1 hour prior to and 30 seconds before placing the vacuum ring of the microkeratome, whereas the other eye served as control. Thirty minutes after the operation, all patients were examined by the surgeon to evaluate hyperemia and identify flap-related complications (eg, slippage, dislocation, or flap folds). The size of subconjunctival hemorrhage was also evaluated on postoperative days 1 and 7. All 132 eyes in the study were examined after surgery to identify flap folds and/or their dislocation.
RESULTS: In the apraclonidine group, 48 (72.8%) eyes had no hyperemia, 16 (24.2%) eyes had mild hyperemia, 2 (3%) eyes had moderate hyperemia, and no (0%) eyes had severe hyperemia. In the control group, 37 (56.1%) eyes had mild hyperemia, 21 (31.8%) eyes had moderate hyperemia, 1 (1.5%) eye had severe hyperemia, and 7 (10.6%) eyes had no hyperemia. In the apraclonidine group, 44 (66.7%) eyes had no subconjunctival hemorrhage (grade 0); grade 1 was present in 19 (28.8%) eyes whereas grades 2 and 3 were present in 2 (3%) eyes and 1 (1.5%) eye, respectively. In the control group, 19 (28.8%) eyes showed grade 0, 13 (19.7%) eyes had grade 1, and grades 2 and 3 were present in 20 (30.3%) eyes and 14 (21.2%) eyes, respectively. Chi-square test showed a highly significant difference between the two groups (P<.001). No flaprelated problems were reported in either group.
CONCLUSIONS: Topical apraclonidine applied before LASIK surgery may prevent immediate postoperative hyperemia and prolonged subconjunctival hemorrhage by its alpha-mimetic vasoconstrictor effect without inducing flap adherence complication. [J Refract Surg. 2006;22:585-588.]
One-year Outcomes of Epi-LASIK for Myopia
Authors: Dai Jinhui , Chu Renyuan , Zhou Xingtao , Chen Chongda , Qu Xiaomei , Wang Xiaoying 
Published: December 2018

ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To evaluate the early clinical outcomes of epi-LASIK for myopia.
METHODS: This study comprised 302 eyes of 162 patients. Epi-LASIK was performed with an automatically rotational epikeratome (KM-5000D). Epithelial separation was achieved mechanically without the use of alcohol. After laser ablation, the epithelial sheet was repositioned and a therapeutic contact lens was applied to the cornea immediately for 3 to 5 days. Postoperative visual acuity, symptoms, epithelial sheet, contrast sensitivity, wavefront aberration, and haze formation were evaluated 3, 6, and 12 months postoperatively.
RESULTS: Of the 302 eyes, 72 eyes (42 patients) with a mean spherical equivalent refraction of -9.13 ±4.23 diopters (D) (range: -1.25 to -19.0 D) had >l-year follow-up. One eye failed to make the epithelial sheet because of the narrow palpebral fissure. An integrated epithelial sheet with a diameter of 8 to 9 mm was made in 289 (95.7%) eyes, leaving a superior hinge of approximately 2 to 4 mm. In 1 eye, stromal tissue remained in the epithelial sheet. Free epithelial flaps were made in 12 (4%) eyes. Mild discomfort was reported by 150 patients (282 eyes, 93.4%). Twelve patients (20 eyes, 6.6%) reported moderate symptoms. At 1 day postoperatively, corneal epithelium was almost transparent or had mild focal edema in 288 (95.4%) eyes; moderate edema was reported in 14 (4.6%) eyes. At 1 year postoperatively, spherical equivalent refraction of 60 (83.3%) eyes was within ±1.0 D of attempted refraction. Grade 0.5 haze was found in 2 eyes; all other eyes had no haze. No eye lost any lines of best spectaclecorrected visual acuity (BSCVA), whereas 12 (16.7%) of 72 eyes gained one or two lines of BSCVA. Contrast sensitivity decreased 1 month postoperatively and was restored to preoperative levels in eyes with preoperative spherical equivalent refraction <-10.0 D. Higher order aberration increased significantly postoperatively.
CONCLUSIONS: Epi-LASIK is a safe and efficient method to correct myopia with the advantage that it has only mild symptoms and mild haze. A larger study with longer follow-up is needed to determine its long-term clinical outcomes. [J Refract Surg. 2006;22:589-595.]
Acanthamoeba Keratitis After LASIK
Authors: Balasubramanya Ramamurthy , Garg Prashant , Sharma Savitri , Vemuganti Geeta K 
Published: December 2018

ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To report a case of Acanthamoeba infection following LASIK.
METHODS: A 20-year-old woman developed pain, redness, decreased vision, and corneal infiltrate in the right eye 15 days after bilateral LASIK. She did not use contact lenses postoperatively. Patient examination 3 months after surgery revealed a large, central, full-thickness corneal infiltrate with multiple satellite lesions in the right eye. Corneal scrapings were taken and the flap excised, and submitted for histopathologic examination.
RESULTS: Microscopic examination of smears revealed Acanthamoeba cysts and non-nutrient agar showed a significant growth of Acanthamoeba. Histopathology examination of the excised flap demonstrated numerous Acanthamoeba cysts in tissue sections. The infiltrate was treated with a combination of topical polyhexamethylene biguanide, Chlorhexidine, atropine sulfate, and oral itraconazole and resolved within 2 months.
CONCLUSIONS: Laser in situ keratomileusis can be complicated by Acanthamoeba infection. Microbiologic evaluation is essential for accurate early diagnosis and treatment. [J Refract Surg. 2006;22:616-617.]
Les hôpitaux de Rennes et leurs cimetières (xie-xvie siècles) : gestion de la pauvreté, de la maladie et de la mort
Authors: Gagnard Laura 
Published: December 2018

Les hôpitaux, à la fois établissement de soins, de
charité et de piété, se développent à partir du xiie siècle, selon un phénomène que Michel
Mollat a appelé « floraison hospitalière ». Ils se multiplient
jusqu’au xvie siècle, et ils évoluent en
même temps que la société. Initialement créés et gérés par des
autorités religieuses afin d’accueillir les malades, les pèlerins et
les pauvres pour les soigner et les remettre dans le chemin de la
vertu, ils passent petit à petit sous le giron de la bourgeoisie
urbaine, voire des municipalités, au xive siècle. Les sources archivistiques et
archéologiques nous permettent de reconstituer l’évolution du système
hospitalier à Rennes et d’évoquer un aspect encore peu étudié, celui
des décès au sein des hôpitaux.
Entre grands desseins et désillusions, le difficile réarmement de la France en 1944-1945 vu à travers les cas des 10e et 19e Divisions de Paris et de Bretagne
Authors: Weiss Stéphane 
Published: December 2018

La majorité du territoire français a été libérée par les forces alliées durant l’été 1944. Pour le gouvernement provisoire de la République française, cette libération a ouvert la perspective d’un vaste programme de réarmement reposant sur la mobilisation des effectifs trouvés en métropole, en premier lieu desquels les volontaires des Forces françaises de l’Intérieur. Parallèlement, le gouvernement a tablé sur l’obtention d’un programme américain d’équipement militaire, similaire à celui mis en œuvre en Afrique du Nord en 1943. Dès le mois de septembre 1944, sans attendre la fin des négociations entamées avec les Alliés, deux projets de nouvelles divisions ont d’emblée été lancés en Bretagne et en région parisienne : les 19e et 10e Divisions d’infanterie (DI). Les quelques livraisons de matériel américain obtenues n’ont pas été à la hauteur des ambitions françaises. Pour autant, les effectifs trouvés en France ont permis la levée de huit nouvelles divisions d’infanterie dès avant le 8 mai 1945, parmi lesquelles les 10e et 19e DI. Le parcours de ces deux divisions, annoncées précocement, est révélateur des multiples obstacles rencontrés par les projets français de réarmement en 1945. Cet article propose de les exposer.
Malattie croniche da ricercare attivamente e mettere in trattamento nel paziente anziano multimorbido al momento della dimissione da un reparto di Medicina Interna a seguito di un ricovero per insufficienza respiratoria acuta attribuita a riacutizzazione di BPCO
Authors: Fabbri Guest Editors: L.M. , Nozzoli C. 
Published: December 2018

IntroduzioneP. Gnerre, L.M. Fabbri, C. Nozzoli

Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento dello scompenso cardiacoP. Gnerre
BPCO e cardiopatia ischemicaG. Vescovo
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento della fibrillazione atrialeD. Panuccio
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento dell’ipertensione arteriosaM. D’Avino, G. Caruso
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento di malattie croniche respiratorie concomitantiC. Nozzoli, L.M. Fabbri
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento delle dislipidemieG. Imperiale
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento del diabeteF. Costanzo, L. Magnani
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento del rischio tromboembolicoF. Dentali
BPCO e arteriopatiaE. Maduli, E. Zoppis
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi della vasculopatia cerebrale e delle malattie neurologiche degenerative nel paziente con BPCOI. Cova, S. Pomati, L. Pantoni
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento delle tireopatieM. Grandi, C. Sacchetti, S. Pederzoli
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento dell’osteoporosiP. Leandri, A. Cenni, S. Fiorino, G. Belmonte, R. Nardi
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento di eventuali malattie croniche renaliD. Manfellotto
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento di eventuali epatopatie cronicheL. Fontanella
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi, valutazione di gravità e trattamento di eventuali malattie infiammatorie croniche dell’intestinoA. Lonardo, S. Lugari
Criteri minimi per la diagnosi di fragilità, disabilità e multimorbilità ed interventi generali per tutti i pazienti anziani multimorbidi (vaccinazioni, attività fisica/intellettiva, dieta, ecc.)R. Antonelli Incalzi, C. Pedone
La politerapia del paziente anziano con comorbilità: problematiche in causaF. Tangianu, R. Nardi, G. Pinna, A. Sacchetta, M. Campanini
Esami di laboratorio essenziali per l’inquadramento del paziente anziano multimorbidoM. Pelloso, F. Tosato, M. Plebani

Schemi riassuntivi
Why to sell car to junkyard?
Authors: John Albert 
Published: December 2018

If you are planning to salvage cars near me, then you should keep certain important things in mind. Selling old cars can help you to gain cash in your hand and this is really quite an interesting deal. Old cars are usually sold as junks or scraps and thus you will get almost half the cost of the purchasing value. You can definitely get the chance of receiving comparatively higher cost if you make a thorough market research. There are some basic strategies that can help you to get higher cost like proper car-maintenance, regular servicing, low damages and others. Why cars are sold to junkyards?One of the simplest explanations regarding why people junkyard car parts near me is for earning instant cash. If you are currently facing any financial difficulties, then you can definitely get cash immediately by means of selling your car but in this case right junkyard needs to be chosen so that you can get the fair selling rate.This cash will enable you in meeting up various kinds of daily expenses like premium payment, house rent, payment of utility bills and others. If you are intending to buy a new car and want to make initial down-payment, then you can choose the option of selling out your existing car. In this way, you will have enough cash in your hand for investing in your new car.If your car has got severely damaged, then you can take the decision of selling out the car. Severely damaged cars involved higher repair and replacement costs and if you are not ready to bear the same, then nothing can be the best option other than selling out your car to any junkyard. There are many critical financial emergencies that can be only fulfilled by means of the concerned option. Basic requirements for junked vehicles There are some commonest requirements that need to be fulfilled by the junked cars and then only they can be purchased by the junkyards. Some vital ones are as follows:-• Auto documents or paperwork should be completed in full otherwise the selling of the junk cars cannot be conducted legally. Along with title document, damage-disclosure statement should also to be submitted to the junkyard so that the actual car rate can be decided accurately without any kind of confusion. The papers should be verified directly from the DMV and then only they will be considered as legitimate ones.• Registration proof and vehicle-title documents should be shown to the junkyard. The junkyard will verify about the authenticity of the papers first and then only the deal will be finalized. If the registration has been cancelled then you might face a great difficulty in selling your car. The car documents should be updated from time to time so that the accurate sale value can be decided.• License plate of your vehicle should be relinquished so that the junkyards can use the vehicle in their own way. The junkyard will use a new license plate for re-selling the same properly.
Commentary
Authors: Thornber Karen , Lu Sheldon 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
This commentary begins with a review of the status and development of the burgeoning field of environmental humanities, of which ecocriticism (literature and environment studies) is an important subfield. The authors call for more attention to environmental humanities on a global scale, beyond the confines of Western academia. The second part of the commentary discusses the individual essays collected in this special issue of Comparative Literature Studies which together not only reveal ecological consciousness and eco-writing as having been a vibrant part of East Asian culture throughout the ages but also promote new understandings of world literature.
Is Man Superior to Animals? A Comparative Reading of Animals in Biblical Narratives and Chinese Classic Texts
Authors: Ye Luofu 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
This article aims to discuss the interrelations between human and animals from the perspective of comparative reading of biblical narratives and Chinese classic texts. By reviewing animal symbolism in these two traditions, this article argues that the Chinese symbolic animals are closer to nature, and the biblical symbolic animals are depicted with political and theological reflection. The article reads the garden of Eden narrative with a cross-textual approach, the understanding of she in traditional Chinese culture shed light on the serpent, an alternative interpretation of the serpent's theological importance is unveiled.
From Rice to Apple-Pear Style: An Ecocritical Approach to China's Korean Ethnic Minority Literature
Authors: Piao Yuming 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
In Northeast China, China's Korean ethnic group has made the ecological combination of sustainable development with nature by planting rice and apple-pear. This process has been described richly in the literature of Korean ethnic group and the stories about Korean ethnic group. Though the stories used to be considered as manifestation of Korean ethnic immigrant history and the history of their fighting against Japanese in the Anti-Japanese War, they can be designed as the discourse of the process of ecological positive and negative feedback, self-organization, stability domains, and the adaptation in human social systems and ecosystems from ecocritical perspective.
Speculating Extinction: Eco-Accidents, Solastalgia, and Object Lessons in Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes
Authors: Tsai Robin Chen-Hsing 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
Taiwanese nature writer Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes explores important environmental issues such as eco-accidents, the garbage vortex, speculative extinction, and memory in the age of the Anthropocene. While examining the Anthropocene hypothesis and the eco-accidents it triggers, I analyze the ways in which Wu's nonanthropocentric, object-oriented neuro-poetics can help theorize a new materialism of the brain based on Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht's “solastalgia,” a feeling of “unhomeliness” while still living “at home” due to environmental distress.
The Future of Terror: Derrida's Political Thought Today
Authors: Brown Derek 
Published: December 2018

ABSTRACT
This article reinscribes a question asked by J. Hillis Miller nearly a decade ago: How can Derrida's political thought help us today? It answers this question by reading Derrida's treatment of the relationship between citationality and event, especially as this relationship is articulated in 9/11 and in autoimmune responses to 9/11—which continue to plague “us” today. In short, the citational structure of 9/11 demands that our responses to this trauma be “kept open” to the future and to the democracy to come. Desires for nationalisms and walls are so many attempts to close off this openness, this future: desires to deny the citational structure of the event.
Fifty Years Gone: A Personal Statement
Authors: DeMott Robert 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
This personal reminiscence of John Steinbeck's life and works recalls the novelist's ethical impact, concluding that Steinbeck does us all a continuing service by his lifelong adherence to honoring truthfulness, accurate discourse—and especially the humanistic values of perfectibility, empathy, and inclusiveness that allow us to achieve “understanding and communication,” as he pointed out in his 1962 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Steinbeck's greatest books are an antidote to—if not a blatant call to resist—the tidal wave of vain posturing, fake news, obfuscation, debasement of language, and outright lies that seem to be the stock in trade of our grievously callous and incompetent current administration.
John Steinbeck's Time in Algeria
Authors: Ben Ali Chaker Mohamed 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
This article bridges a gap in Steinbeck's biographies. It is both a historical account of Steinbeck's stint in Algeria and an invitation inviting readers to visit the places that Steinbeck saw so that they may have a more panoramic view of his adventurous life. Steinbeck covered World War II for The Herald Tribune newspaper in Algeria in 1943. While there, he compared Algiers to some places in the United States such as Coney Island, New York, and Monterey Bay, California. He described it as a white, salad bowl, polyglot city. Just as Steinbeck used the Salinas Valley as a setting for his fiction, so he also used Algeria. He came across many iconic American figures during his stay in the Aletti Hotel. Although his second trip to Algeria with his third wife, Elaine Scott, in 1952 was unexpected, they enjoyed attending an all-night lavish party thrown by the French general of the air forces. Their third trip was in 1963 when Algeria became a newly independent state. In a letter to W. F. Vickers, he described their stay and his first meeting with the Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella when he visited the United Sates.
Incidencia del hijo deseado inmediato por hombres hondureños, según factores sociodemográficos y culturales. 2011-2012
Authors: Herrera León Lorenzo , Sierra Soriano Lilian Margarita , Paz Delgado Ana Carolina 
Published: December 2018

Sobre la base de la información obtenida en la Encuesta de Demografía y Salud (ENDESA) llevada a cabo en Honduras durante el bienio 2011-2012, se decidió estudiar las características del hijo deseado inmediato o próximo en los hombres. El objetivo planteado es describir la incidencia del hijo deseado inmediato por hombres hondureños, en función del tiempo de espera declarado para su nacimiento, según factores sociodemográficos y culturales. La metodología utilizada consistió en el diseño y construcción de tablas de vida para el hijo deseado inmediato (HDI) con base en la pregunta ¿Cuánto tiempo le gustaría esperar desde ahora hasta antes del nacimiento de un (otro) hijo? con lo cual se logra describir la intensidad o incidencia del HDI en función del tiempo de espera para su nacimiento y variables de corte sociodemográfico y cultural. Además se utilizó la regresión Cox de riesgos proporcionales para covariables invariantes en el tiempo, lo cual permitió realizar comparaciones a través del Riesgo Relativo, controlando las variables confusoras y estimar el efecto neto de cada predictor sobre la probabilidad de tener el HDI cada un hombre. De las 18 variables explicativas analizadas solo unas pocas resultaron incluidas en el modelo regresivo, además, algunos resultados en cierta medida fueron paradójicos, por ejemplo es el caso de la zona de residencia, usualmente un excelente diferencial de la fecundidad femenina, que no mostró significación estadística. Por otra parte la variable construida Brecha Reproductiva resulto además de un buen predictor, también un apropiado factor resumen, con capacidad explicativa en sustitución de otras variables, lo que permitió dotar al modelo de una buena cuantía de parsimonia.
Estudio de la actividad farmacológica del extracto de Bauhinia monandra en el Municipio de la Villa de San Francisco, Departamento de Francisco Morazán
Authors: Sánchez Gustavo Adolfo , Rodríguez Fredy Alexander , Flores Jorge Oswaldo , Bonilla Wilberto , Cabrera Melissa , Flores Catherine Margarita , Rodríguez Heydi , Rodriguez Amelia Karina , Tinoco Erick 
Published: December 2018

El análisis de la actividad farmacológica de los extractos acuosos, metanólicos y etéreos del taxón vegetal Bauhinia monandra Fabaceae, comúnmente conocida como “casco de vaca”, tiene el objetivo de demostrar científicamente la actividad bactericida de la planta, para poder brindar un aporte científico de la misma, contribuyendo al adecuado uso terapéutico y evaluar su futura comercialización. El material vegetal fue obtenido en el Municipio de la Villa de San Francisco, Francisco Morazán, a través de un muestreo probabilístico. Se realizó el extracto acuoso por la técnica de extracción de contacto múltiple conocida como reflujo o digestión, los extractos metanólicos y etéreos se realizaron a través de la técnica de extracción de contacto múltiple Soxhlet, en la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, siguiendo la metodología descrita en el libro de Farmacognosia (Trease, G.E. y Evans, W.C.,1982). Luego los mismos se sometieron a un análisis in-vitro, en la Escuela de Microbiología de dicha universidad, con cepas bacterianas de Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 y Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, por ser las cepas recomendadas para el control de las pruebas de susceptibilidad cuando se usa el método de difusión en disco. Los resultados obtenidos mostraron un pequeño halo de inhibición en los discos con los extractos crudos acuosos y metanólico sin diluir, no mostrando dicho halo para el extracto etéreo y diluciones, por lo que se demostró que no hay un efecto inhibitorio (bactericida) significante por parte de ninguno de los extractos del taxón vegetal, con las bacterias en prueba. Esto cuando se compara con los resultados del efecto de los antibióticos usados como control positivo. Los resultados presentan similitud con el taxón Bauhinia variegata, estudiada por Martínez, M. et al. en el 2011, confirmando entonces la veracidad de nuestros resultados.