The four "R"s: Strategies for tailoring science for religious publics and their prices.

A recent wave of studies has diversified science communication by emphasizing gender, race, and disability. In this article, we focus on the understudied lens of religion. Based on an analysis of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) science journalism and its readership, we identify four main strategies for tailoring science, which we call the four "R"s-removing, reclaiming, remodeling, and rubricating science.

Differentiating highly asymmetric keratoconus eyes using a combined Scheimpflug/Placido device.

Purpose: To determine the ability to differentiate between normal eyes and clinically unaffected eyes of patients with highly asymmetric keratoconus (AKC) using a Scheimpflug/Placido device.

Setting: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Enaim Medical Center, Israel.

Design: Retrospective case-control.

Depth-Dependent Reduction of Biomechanical Efficacy of Contact Lens-Assisted Corneal Cross-linking Analyzed by Brillouin Microscopy.

Purpose: To determine the relative impact of contact lens- assisted corneal cross-linking (CACXL) and standard protocol CXL (CXL) on regional corneal stiffness using Brillouin microscopy.

Methods: CXL and CACXL were performed on 30 intact fresh porcine eyes (15 per group). Depth profile of stiffness variation and averaged elastic modulus of anterior, middle, and posterior stroma were determined by Brillouin maps.

Corneal higher-order aberrations measurements: Comparison between Scheimpflug and dual Scheimpflug-Placido technology in keratoconic eyes.

Purpose: To compare the difference and agreement of corneal higher-order aberrations (HOAs) in keratoconic eyes using Scheimpflug and dual Scheimpflug-Placido imaging systems.

Setting: Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Design: Retrospective between-devices reliability and agreement study.

Distinguishing Highly Asymmetric Keratoconus Eyes Using Dual Scheimpflug/Placido Analysis.

Purpose: To identify the best metrics or combination of metrics that provide the highest predictive power between normal eyes and the clinically unaffected eye of patients with highly asymmetric keratoconus using data from a Dual Scheimpflug/Placido device.

Design: Retrospective case-control study.

Methods: Combined Dual Scheimpflug/Placido imaging was obtained from the Galilei G4 device (Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems AG, Port, Switzerland) in 31 clinically unaffected eyes with highly asymmetric keratoconus and 178 eyes from 178 patients with bilaterally normal corneal examinations that underwent uneventful LASIK with at least 1 year follow-up.

Higher-order aberration measurements: Comparison between Scheimpflug and dual Scheimpflug-Placido technology in normal eyes.

Purpose: To compare higher order aberrations (HOAs) in normal eyes between a Scheimpflug imaging system (Pentacam HR) and dual Scheimpflug-Placido imaging system (Galilei G4).

Setting: Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Differences in Posterior Corneal Features Between Normal Corneas and Subclinical Keratoconus.

Purpose: To compare posterior corneal features and their discriminating power for differentiating normal corneas from subclinical keratoconus using the Placido dual-Scheimpflug analyzer.

Methods: Patients were retrospectively included in the study. The preoperative normal right eyes of 79 patients imaged with a Placido dual-Scheimpflug system and with a stable postoperative LASIK follow-up of a minimum of 36 months were included in the normal group and were compared to 39 contralateral topographically normal eyes with clinically evident keratoconus in the fellow eye.

Pain management after photorefractive keratectomy.

Purpose Of Review: To review current concepts regarding the mechanisms of postoperative pain after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and review available treatment options.

Recent Findings: Many clinical studies have established the safety and efficacy of different topical and systematic therapeutic agents and techniques for the treatment of postoperative pain after PRK, especially topical nonsteroidal anti inflammatory agents and oral nonsteroidal and narcotic medications. New therapeutic agents and techniques are continuously studied, introducing new agents and comparing teh efficacy of different regimens.

The influence of urinary versus recombinant gonadotropin on serum P-selectin levels in vivo.

Objective: To determine the levels of serum P-selectin in patients undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) cycles with urinary (uGn) versus recombinant gonadotropins (rGn) and their possible correlation with COH variables.

Methods: This study was carried out in a large university-based infertility and in vitro fertilization unit. A total of 14 consecutive patients underwent our routine COH protocol for unexplained infertility with either uGn or rGn.

Chair/Twist-Boat Energy Gap in Monocyclic, Conformationally Unconstrained Polyalkylcyclohexanes.

A conformational search procedure (HUNTER), in combination with the MM3(92) program, was used for the exploration of the conformational hypersurface of alkyl-substituted cyclohexanes and for the calculation of their chair/twist-boat (TB) energy gap. The systems studied were conformationally unconstrained polyalkylcyclohexanes (alkyl = methyl, ethyl, isopropyl, and tert-butyl) possessing either geminal and/or vicinal arrangements of the alkyl groups, but differing in the number of alkyl substituents and in their relative disposition (i.e.