Design and Biocompatibility of a Novel, Flexible Artificial Cornea.

Purpose: We sought to introduce the materials, design, and biocompatibility of a flexible and suturable artificial corneal device.

Methods: Single-piece, fully synthetic, optic-skirt design devices were made from compact perfluoroalkoxy alkane. The skirt and the optic wall surfaces were lined with a porous tissue ingrowth material using expanded polytetrafluoroethylene.

Volcanic unrest as seen from the magmatic source: Reyðarártindur pluton, Iceland.

How the Earth's crust accommodates magma emplacement influences the signals that can be detected by monitoring volcano seismicity and surface deformation, which are routinely used to forecast volcanic eruptions. However, we lack direct observational links between deformation caused by magma emplacement and monitoring signals. Here we use field mapping and photogrammetry to quantify deformation caused by the emplacement of at least 2.

Short-Term Clinical Outcomes of a Novel Corneal Prosthetic Device in a Rabbit Model.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical performance and biocompatibility of a novel synthetic corneal device.

Methods: Synthetic, single-piece, foldable, suturable, optic-and-skirt design prototype devices were fabricated using expanded polytetrafluoroethylene. A combination of intralamellar and full-thickness penetrating techniques was used for implantation.

Development and validation of an instrument to measure and manage organizational process variety.

Organizational processes vary. Practitioners have developed simple frameworks to differentiate them. Surprisingly, the academic literature on process management does not-it typically strives for one method to manage all processes.