Efficacy, predictability, and safety
with regard to astigmatic correction were comparable to the results with U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved excimer lasers. At 6 months, the mean error ratio was 0.68 +/- 0.75 (SD) and the mean correction ratio was 1.11 +/- 0.69. There was slight astigmatic undercorrection (approximately 10%) over time. The residuum of the linear regression analysis of the predictability plot was approximately 0.4 diopter. Ninety-six percent of the eyes had a corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA) of 20/20 or better; no eye had a CDVA worse than 20/32.\n\nCONCLUSION: Femtosecond refractive lenticule extraction is an effective procedure for correcting myopic astigmatism. (C) 2013 ASCRS and ESCRS”
“Disease surveillance and reporting is a necessary and integral part of public health practice. Surveillance YM155 systems have been developed over many years for both human medicine and veterinary medicine. However, these systems are not usually interconnected. Today, with the benefits of advanced information technology, the development and integration of existing and new resources in companion-animal practice should be focused on “one medicine-one health” for the betterment
and health of all species. This means more sharing of surveillance data, greater cooperation among C59 wnt organizations involved in surveillance, and further integration of human and animal surveillance activities.”
“The present study reports isolation and characterization of 11 polymorphic microsatellite markers for Nycticorax nycticorax. A total of 82 alleles were detected with an average of 7.5 alleles per locus. The observed heterozygosity (H(O)) ranged from 0.25 to 1.00, and the expected heterozygosity (H(E)) ranged from 0.51 to 0.88. Analyses revealed no evidence for Linkage disequilibrium between any two loci, and only one locus was significantly deviated from see more HWE with the estimation of exact P values by the Markov chain method
(P < 0.001). The 11 loci were successfully amplified in 11 other Ardeidae species. These results demonstrate these markers can be used for the study of intra- and inter-specific genetic diversity.”
“Research has shown that integer comparison is quick and efficient. This efficiency may be a function of the structure of the integer comparison system. The present study tests whether integers are compared with an unlimited capacity system or a limited capacity system. We tested these models using a visual search task with time delimitation. The data from Experiments 1 and 2 indicate that integers are encoded, identified, and compared within an unlimited capacity system. The data from Experiment 3 indicate that 2nd-order magnitude comparisons are processed with a highly efficient limited capacity system.