USE OF A NOVEL EXTENDED BLINK TEST TO EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE OF TWO POLYVINYLPYRROLIDONE-CONTAINING, SILICONE HYDROGEL CONTACT LENSES

Use of a novel extended blink test to evaluate the performance of two polyvinylpyrrolidone-containing, silicone hydrogel contact lenses

Jeffery Schafer,1 William Reindel,1 Robert Steffen,1 Gary Mosehauer,1 Joseph Chinn2 1Vision Care, Bausch and Lomb Incorporated, Rochester, NY, USA; 2J Chinn LLC, Lafayette, CO, USA Background: Sustained digital display viewing reduces eye blink frequency and tear film stability.To retain water and preserve a smooth optical surface, contact lens man

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Detection of Welding Defects Tracked by YOLOv4 Algorithm

The recall rate of the original YOLOv4 model for detecting internal defects in aluminum alloy welds is relatively low.To address this issue, this paper introduces an enhanced model, YOLOv4-cs1.The improvements Nipple Balm include optimizing the stacking method of residual blocks, modifying the activation functions for different convolutional layers

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Clinical Outcomes of Biportal Endoscopic Interlaminar Decompression with Oblique Lumbar Interbody Fusion (OLIF): Comparative Analysis with TLIF

Oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) improves the spinal canal, with favorable clinical outcomes.However, it may not be useful for treating concurrent, severe central canal stenosis (SCCS).Therefore, we added biportal endoscopic spinal surgery (BESS) after OLIF, evaluated the combined procedure for one-segment fusion with clinical outcomes, and c

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Ways of Knowing: Crossing Species Boundaries

Empirical social science research is inevitably highly dependent on verbal communication.Observation, ethnographic and visual methods do of Toy Kitchens course go beyond words (or meanings derived and shared solely through language) but talking (or words)remains central to communicating meaning.In this paper I want to explore ways of knowing that,

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