A case of Graves' disease presenting with internal ophthalmoplegia during methylmercaptoimidazole treatment.

A 28-year-old Japanese woman positive for TSH receptor antibody and anti-nuclear antibody complained of difficulty seeing nearby objects, severe throbbing retro-orbital pain, diplopia, blepharoptosis and upward gaze palsy when she became hypothyroid during treatment with 30 mg methylmercaptoimidazole for Graves' hyperthyroidism. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed slightly swollen bilateral inferior rectus muscles, suggesting the external ophthalmoplegia due to the muscle pathology commonly encountered in Graves' disease. The retro-orbital pain was associated with marked accommodation failure and the pupillary abnormalities.

Simulating Liquids on Dynamically Warping Grids.

We introduce dynamically warping grids for adaptive liquid simulation. Our primary contributions are a strategy for dynamically deforming regular grids over the course of a simulation and a method for efficiently utilizing these deforming grids for liquid simulation. Prior work has shown that unstructured grids are very effective for adaptive fluid simulations.

A Reliable Wireless Control System for Tomato Hydroponics.

Agricultural systems using advanced information and communication (ICT) technology can produce high-quality crops in a stable environment while decreasing the need for manual labor. The system collects a wide variety of environmental data and provides the precise cultivation control needed to produce high value-added crops; however, there are the problems of packet transmission errors in wireless sensor networks or system failure due to having the equipment in a hot and humid environment. In this paper, we propose a reliable wireless control system for hydroponic tomato cultivation using the 400 MHz wireless band and the IEEE 802.

Estimation of premature mortality from oral cancer in Japan, 1995 and 2005.

Background: To better understand the picture of premature death from oral cancer, we estimated years of life lost (YLL) and average years of life lost (AYLL) of this cancer for the years 1995 and 2005 in Japan.

Methods: We obtained the mortality data for 5-year age groups from the Vital Statistics of Japan for the years 1995 and 2005, an interval of 10 years. Age-standardized rates (ASRs) per 100,000 persons were calculated for each subset of oral cancer.

Effects of oral health care on salivary flow rate in patients with type 2 diabetes: preliminary study.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of the authors' oral health care program on the stimulated whole salivary flow rate and buffer capacity before and after a 6-month intervention. The authors conducted the intervention study among 25 participants with diabetes. The salivary flow rate and buffer capacity were evaluated before and after this intervention.