Purpose:To obtain data on the characteristics of low-vision patients seen at a tertiary eye care hospital in India.Methods:Records of 410 patients were retrospectively reviewed at the Centre for Sight Enhancement, L.V.Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.Patients underwent a comprehensive clinical low-vision examination.Data obtained included age

The objectives to extend the available range of pipe supports up to plastic region are below; one is to enlarge the loading capacity, and the other is to add damping to piping systems using the absorption effect of seismic energy due to the elastic-plastic hysteresis property.However, the pipe support design that balances these two functions is dif

Most existing deployment algorithms for event coverage in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) usually do not consider that network communication has non-uniform characteristics on three-dimensional underwater environments.Such deployment algorithms ignore that the nodes are distributed at different depths and have different probabilities fo

Endocrine emergencies pose unique challenges for the attending intensivist while managing critically ill patients.Besides taking care of primary disease state, one has to divert an equal attention to the possible associated endocrinopathies also.One of the common reasons for inability to timely diagnose an endocrinal failure in critically ill patie

Abstract The genomes of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV and SIV) encode the gag, pol and env genes and contain at least six supplementary open reading frames termed tat, rev, nef, vif, vpr, vpx and vpu.While the tat and rev genes encode regulatory proteins absolutely required for virus replication, nef, vif, vpr, vpx and vpu encode f