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New Yorkers vote next Thursday in a primary election. Here are The Times's endorsements for State Assembly races, all Democratic, in which primary victory is tantamount to election.
THE BRONX. In the 74th District, Hector Diaz, the incumbent, with good ideas for expanding drug treatment, merits a third term over Lucy Cruz, a former liaison to the Mayor's office. 76th District: The forceful and independent-minded incumbent, Aurelia Greene, well deserves another term.
77th District: Sandra Ramos-Alamo, a spirited tenant organizer and child care advocate, promises stronger representation than Israel Martinez, a former aide to Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer. Appointed six months ago to fill a vacancy created by Jose Rivera's move to the City Council, Mr. Martinez has displayed little initiative. A third candidate is Efrain Gonzalez, a former Brinks guard. 78th District: The incumbent, Gloria Davis, an effective advocate for the Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus, has earned another term.
79th District: George Friedman, the incumbent, who also serves as chairman of the Bronx County Democratic Party, faces an energetic challenge from Donald Reilly, a university researcher and longtime member of Community Board 7. Mr. Friedman warrants criticism for his fealty to the discredited regular party organization, but has been an able and conscientious lawmaker. He deserves to continue in the Assembly, but would reassure voters by resigning his county leadership.
81st District: It is a pleasure to endorse Jay Goldman to succeed Eliot Engel, who is running for Congress. Mr. Goldman, unusually knowledgeable about education issues, would be a powerful voice for school reform. His opponents are a former City Councilman, Steve Kaufman, and Gretchen Hazell, a community activist.
BROOKLYN. In the 42d District, Rhoda Jacobs, an unusually conscientious public servant, has helped pass vital health and day care legislation. We endorse her with enthusiasm for a sixth term. Her opponent is N. Nick Perry, who leads Community Board 17. 43d District: Clarence Norman Jr., a persuasive advocate for the homeless, is challenged by Carl Roberts, a tax consultant and member of Community Board 9. Mr. Norman, the three-term incumbent, deserves endorsement.
45th District: Daniel Feldman, the incumbent, who has become an effective promoter of criminal justice reform, merits support over former Assemblyman Harry Smoler. 55th District: The Albany veteran William Boyland, a strong supporter of the state's upcoming transportation bond issue, warrants re-election.
57th District: The incumbent, Roger Green, chairman of the Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus, showed courage earlier this year in speaking out against the tactics of the Rev. Al Sharpton and others in the Tawana Brawley case. Despite an erratic legislative performance, he has earned another term. His challenger, Stanley Frere, faces Federal criminal charges.
QUEENS. In the 23d District, Audrey Pheffer has proved an unusually thoughtful lawmaker in her freshman term. She deserves to return to Albany. 26th District: Sandra Delson, an experienced health administrator who seeks better housing for senior citizens, merits endorsement over the amiable but ineffective one-term incumbent, Morton Hillman. 29th District: Cynthia Jenkins, the feisty and independent incumbent, is a capable public official. We endorse her over the challenger, Rudy Washington, a building contractor.
30th District: Joseph Crowley, a lackluster freshman, faces Harvey Katz, a teacher and knowledgeable health care advocate. Mr. Katz seems the better choice. 32d District: The veteran incumbent Ed Abramson's record of constituent service is not matched by legislative accomplishment. In this race we favor Lawrence Miller, an official with the State Division for Youth.


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The posterior sclera likely plays an important role in the development of glaucoma and accurate characterization of its mechanical properties is needed to understand its impact on the more delicate optic nerve head – the primary site of damage in the disease.
The posterior scleral shells from both eyes of one rhesus monkey were individually mounted on a custom-built pressurization apparatus. Intraocular pressure was incrementally increased from 5 to 45 mm Hg, and the 3-D displacements were measured using electronic speckle pattern interferometry. Finite element meshes of each posterior scleral shell were reconstructed from data generated by a 3D digitizer arm (shape) and a 20 MHz ultrasound transducer (thickness). An anisotropic hyperelastic constitutive model described in a companion paper [1], which includes stretch-induced stiffening and multi-directional alignment of the collagen fibers, was applied to each reconstructed mesh. Surface node displacements of each model were fitted to the experimental displacements using an inverse finite element method, which estimated a unique set of thirteen model parameters.
The predictions of the proposed constitutive model matched the 3-D experimental displacements well. In both eyes, the tangent modulus increased dramatically with IOP, which indicates that the sclera is mechanically nonlinear. The sclera adjacent to the optic nerve head, known as the peripapillary sclera, was thickest and exhibited the lowest tangent modulus, which might have contributed to the uniform distribution of the structural stiffness for each entire scleral shell.
Posterior scleral deformation following acute IOP elevations appears to be nonlinear and governed by the underlying scleral collagen microstructure as predicted by finite element modeling. The method is currently being used to characterize posterior scleral mechanics in normal (young and old), early and moderately glaucomatous monkey eyes.
This is the second of two reports, which together propose a strategy to characterize the mechanical behavior of the posterior sclera under acute elevations of intraocular pressure (IOP). To accurately account for scleral anisotropy, we developed an anisotropic hyperelastic model in the first report [1], which incorporates multi-directional alignment of the collagen fibers at local material points. Application of this model to anatomically accurate geometry of monkey posterior sclera is presented in this second report. Scleral mechanical properties are obtained by fitting the model-predicted displacements to the experimentally-measured displacements using an inverse finite-element method.
In literature, estimations of scleral mechanical properties have been limited to linear and nonlinear isotropic analyses based on relatively crude optical tracking of pressurized shells [2–5] and linear and nonlinear isotropic (elastic and viscoelastic) characterization based on uniaxial testing of scleral strips [6–17]. While these studies made important contributions to our understanding of scleral mechanics, a more comprehensive approach that characterizes the nonlinear, anisotropic nature of the sclera and its inhomogeneous fibrous ultrastructure is necessary. Because the sclera transmits IOP-related deformations to the optic nerve head (ONH) and is altered in early experimental glaucoma [10], knowledge of scleral mechanics is essential to evaluate how the tissues of the ONH respond to IOP. This information is vital to developing a clear understanding of the role of IOP in the development and progression of glaucoma – an optic neuropathy caused by retinal ganglion cell axon damage at the ONH [18, 19].
One male rhesus monkey (2.1 years old) without any apparent optic abnormality was anesthetized with an intramuscular injection of ketamine/xylazine and sacrificed with an intravenous injection of sodium pentobarbital. After enucleation, both eyes were carefully cleaned of extra-orbital tissues and the posterior sclera was separated from the anterior chamber approximately 3 mm anterior to the equator. The retina and choroid were carefully dissected away from the scleral shell except for a 7-mm diameter patch centered on the ONH, which was left intact to prevent fluid leakage from the ONH during pressurization. All ocular tissues were kept moist with phosphate buffered saline (PBS) throughout specimen preparation.
The posterior scleral shells from both eyes were individually mounted on a custom-built pressurization apparatus (Fig. 1) and internally pressurized using a column of PBS at 22°C. IOP was controlled at a resolution of 0.01 mm Hg by altering the PBS column height with a motor-driven stage (Bislide, Velmex, Bloomfield, NY), and monitored by a digital pressure gauge (X2Pi, Crystal Engineering, San Luis Obispo, CA). To enhance its optical contrast, each shell surface was blotted dry and treated with white titanium powder (ProCAD Contrast Medium, Ivoclar, Schaan, Lichtenstein) diluted in a 70% ethanol solution. A custom-built chamber was then mounted above the shell and filled with 50 mL of PBS to maintain specimen hydration. The chamber was fabricated with a silica window coated with an anti-reflective film to optimize displacement measurements of the shell surface with an electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) sensor (Q100, Ettemeyer AG, Germany) [20, 21].
Each shell was subjected to IOP preconditioning, consisting of twenty IOP cycles from 5 to 15 mm Hg at a rate of 5 mm Hg per second, and then allowed to recover for 360 seconds. IOP was then increased from 5 to 10 mm Hg in steps of 0.2 mm Hg, from 10 to 30 mm Hg in steps of 0.4 mm Hg, and from 30 to 45 mm Hg in steps of 0.6 mm Hg. Because sclera stiffens with increasing IOP, the IOP step magnitude was increased to keep the resultant displacements within the measurable range of the ESPI sensor. For each IOP step, the ESPI sensor captured laser speckle images over a 35 × 25 mm2 area at an equilibrium state. An example of such image is depicted in Fig. 2. Each displacement component (x, y, z) was then computed using speckle image algorithms for each IOP step at a resolution of 0.1 µm, and reported in a 256 × 256 matrix format that covered the entire measuring area. Finally, each component was summed over the following IOP intervals: 5–7, 5–10, 5–20, 5–30, and 5–45 mm Hg. These IOP intervals correspond to the physiologic range and were chosen because they are directly comparable to the in vivo, image-based ONH compliance testing and perfusion fixation protocols used in our other monkey studies [22, 23].
The following experiment consisted in obtaining the surface geometry of the shell in its reference state (IOP of 5 mm Hg). Once the acquisition of the ESPI images was completed, IOP was lowered from 45 mm Hg to 5 mm Hg, and the shell was allowed to equilibrate. The outer surface geometry of the shell was then manually digitized using a 3-D digitizer arm (MicroScribe G2X, Immersion, San Jose, CA). For each shell, the Cartesian coordinates of one thousand spatial points were recorded to cover the entire scleral surface. The scleral canal and the clamping area were also digitized to provide boundaries for the scleral specimen.
Scleral thickness was measured using a 20 MHz ultrasound transducer (PacScan 300P, Sonomed, Inc., Lake Success, NY), combined with a 75 MHz pulser-receiver (5073PR, Olympus NDT, Inc., Waltham, MA) and a 200 MHz digital oscilloscope (TDS2022, Tektronix, Beaverton, OR). This measurement system was able to acquire a minimum thickness of 100 µm at a resolution of 1 µm.
Prior to thickness measurements, twenty spatial points were marked on the scleral surface with a fine tip marker (Fig. 3-A) and their Cartesian coordinates were recorded with the 3-D digitizer arm. To enhance acoustic energy reflection at the inner surface of the sclera, the PBS inside the scleral shell was replaced with moist air controlled by a pressure regulator (Model 81, Fairchild, Winston-Salem, NC) and the shell was pressurized to 5 mm Hg. The ultrasound transducer was then positioned perpendicularly to each of the twenty predetermined points and voltage echo signals were collected on the oscilloscope (Fig. 3-B). Scleral thickness, di, was calculated at each point according to the following formula
where vsclera is the speed of sound in the sclera, which was set to 1597 m/s [24], and ti is the echo time, which was determined from the oscilloscope signal (Fig. 3-B).
The surface geometry and thickness data were combined to generate a FE mesh of the specimen using custom-written Matlab subroutines (Matlab, The Mathworks, Nattick, MA). Briefly, the digitized boundaries of the clamp and the scleral canal were fit to a circle and an ellipse, respectively, using a least-square algorithm. The point cloud of the scleral surface was then smoothed using the thin-plate spline method and thickness data were interpolated over the entire scleral surface field. These data were combined to generate a FE mesh with 8-noded hexahedral elements using grid projection methods. The FE mesh was divided into 9 subregions, where regions 1–4 contain the peripheral sclera, regions 5–8 contain the peripapillary sclera, and region 9 represents the ONH (Fig. 4-A). A convergence test was performed to assess the numerical accuracy of the FE approximation by increasing the number of nodes. Adequate numerical accuracy was achieved with 5091 nodes and 3328 elements.
In incorporating the fiber-reinforced constitutive theory for ocular soft-tissues developed in Part 1 [1] into FE models of the posterior scleral shell, several assumptions were made: 1) The mechanical properties of the collagen fibers are generic and uniform throughout the scleral tissue. 2) The mechanical properties of the ground substance matrix are generic and uniform throughout the scleral tissue. 3) Regional variation in the mechanical response of the scleral shell is principally governed by inhomogeneity of the collagen fiber ultrastructure, which can be quantitatively described using the preferred fiber orientation and the fiber concentration factor. 4) The collagen fiber alignment in the peripapillary sclera differs from that in the peripheral sclera. Based on these assumptions, three model parameters (c1: 1st Mooney-Rivlin coefficient, c3: exponential fiber stress coefficient, and c4 : fiber uncrimping coefficient) were uniformly attributed to the entire posterior sclera. Two fiber concentration factors, k1 and k2, were attributed to the peripheral sclera (regions 1–4) and peripapillary sclera (regions 5–8), respectively. Individual preferred fiber orientations, θp1 to θp8, were attributed to each region (Fig. 5). As a consequence, the FE model contained a total number of thirteen model parameters to be determined. In addition, the bulk modulus of the sclera K was fixed at 1 GPa to assure incompressibility, and the ONH was modeled as an incompressible linear isotropic material with an elastic modulus (EONH) of 1 MPa.
For each FE model, IOP was numerically applied to the interior surface of the shell as a uniform pressure load. Nodes belonging to both the peripheral sclera and the clamping boundary were constrained in all three directions in order to maintain consistency with restraints imposed by the clamp in the experimental protocol. For simplicity, the reference geometry generated at 5 mm Hg was assumed to be stress-free.
Scleral model parameters were extracted using an inverse FE method, in which an optimization algorithm, i.e. differential evolution [25], was coupled with the FE method. The differential evolution algorithm sought to determine the set of thirteen model parameters that yielded the closest match between the FE-simulated and the experimentally-measured displacements. Numerically, the surface node displacements of the FE model were fitted to their colocalized experimental values simultaneously at five IOP levels (7, 10, 20, 30 and 45 mm Hg) by minimizing the following cost function ε:
Here, are the three components of the experimental (e) and model (m) displacements, respectively, at surface node n and an IOP level of p; N is the total number of surface nodes and P is the total number of IOP levels.
Our preliminary study with the differential evolution algorithm showed that a weighting factor F of 0.5, a crossover constant CR of 0.9, and a number of trial vectors (i.e. sets of the thirteen model parameters) NP of 50 were well suited for our inverse FE problem. These parameters were chosen using the knowledge we developed for previous inverse problems we have solved in our laboratories [12, 26]. The reader is referred to the work of Price and coworkers for a better understanding of the differential evolution algorithm parameters [25]. The following initial ranges were used with the differential evolution algorithm for the considered model parameters: 0 ≤c1 ≤1000 , 0 ≤c3 ≤100 , 0 ≤c4 ≤1000 , 0 ≤(k1, k2) ≤ 20 and 0 ≤(θp1,…,θp8) ≤ 180. It should be noted that the differential evolution algorithm has strong advantages over other global optimization algorithms because it is easy to implement, does not require a single initial guess, and allows the parameters to evolve beyond their initial ranges [25]. This last point is often important at the initial stages of solving a new global optimization problem. However, for the preferred fiber orientations, θp1 to θp8, we implemented a custom periodicity constraint so that they could only evolve within the half circle defined by 0 and 180°.
The inverse FE simulation consisted of 450 iterations of the differential evolution algorithm. Each iteration included 50 FE runs yielding a total of 22,500 (= 450 × 50) FE runs. The simulation was executed on an ION computational server, with 32 GB of RAM and four 64-bit Itanium2 processors (Intel, Santa Clara, CA), using a parallel queuing system written in the script language Perl (The Perl Foundation). One inverse FE simulation typically took two days to obtain full convergence.
To examine whether the inverse FE simulation yields a unique solution, pseudo-experimental displacements were generated by the FE model using several predetermined sets of arbitrary model parameters. Inverse FE simulations were then performed to test whether these model parameters could be retrieved.
Two different regionalization patterns (Fig. 4) were defined for both eyes to further assess solution uniqueness of the model parameters: c1, c3, c4, k1 and k2. Because c1, c3, and c4 were uniformly attributed to the entire posterior sclera, k1 to the peripheral sclera, and k2 to the peripapillary sclera, inverse FE simulations are expected to yield comparable values of these model parameters for both regionalization patterns.
The ONH, which contains the lamina cribrosa and the retinal ganglion cell axons, was considered as a linear isotropic material. To quantify the effects of ONH mechanics on scleral mechanics, inverse FE simulations were performed with ONH elastic moduli EONH of 0.1, 1, and 5 MPa [27] for both eyes.
To study the stability of the incompressibility constraint, inverse FE simulations were performed with scleral bulk moduli K of 1.0 and 0.1 GPa for both eyes.
The model parameters c3 and c4 as obtained from the inverse FE simulations describe the nonlinearity of the sclera, but do not provide a direct measure of scleral stiffness at each IOP elevations. To provide a relationship between scleral stiffness and IOP, we have isolated components of the spatial elasticity tensor . In the FE implementation of the constitutive theory, was expressed in a fixed global coordinate system [1], and can now be transformed to the local fiber coordinate system as follows
where ′ is the spatial elasticity tensor in the local fiber coordinate system and a is the transformation matrix. Accordingly, were defined as the tangent moduli along and perpendicular to the preferred fiber orientation, respectively. Both quantities are inhomogeneous, and their directions lie in the plane tangent to the shell surface.
Clinical discussions of the corneo-scleral shell often confuse the effects of its mechanical properties and geometry on its overall mechanical behavior. We therefore attempted to take regional variations in scleral thickness into account by empirically defining the structural stiffnesses S1 and S2 at any point in the scleral shell as
where T is the local scleral thickness; S1 and S2 are the structural stiffnesses along and perpendicular to the preferred fiber orientation, respectively.
In all studies of solution uniqueness, the inverse FE simulations predicted values for all thirteen model parameters perfectly with a cost function value of zero. Based on these data, the inverse FE method yields unique solutions. Results for all other sensitivity analyses are listed in Table 1. Overall, changing the scleral bulk modulus K from 0.1 to 1 GPa had very little impact on all model parameters. Changing the ONH elastic modulus from 0.1 to 5 MPa had some impact and resulted in an increase in c3 and k2 , and a decrease in c1, c4 and k1 consistently for both eyes. Changing the configuration scheme had its largest influence on c3 and k1 in the left eye, and on k1 in the right eye. Overall, the mean tangent moduli were much less sensitive; (mean) varied between 8.4 and 10.7 MPa in the left eye and between 9.0 and 10.0 in the right eye. These results suggest that moderate variations in c1, c3, c4, k1 and k2 induce small variations in tangent moduli. As a result, we used the regionalization pattern in Fig. 4a, K = 1 GPa and EONH = 1 MPa for all subsequent analyses.
Figure 6 depicts both experimentally-measured and model-predicted displacements in left and right eyes as IOP increased from 5 to 10 mm Hg, 10 to 30 mm Hg, and 30 to 45 mm Hg, respectively. The displacements predicted by the model captured the complex displacement patterns of the experimental data well and the maximum cost function value was 2.51 µm for all the cases studied. Displacement magnitude in all directions was lowest as IOP increased from 30 to 45 mm Hg. This implies that sclera is relatively compliant when IOP is low (5–10 mm Hg), but dramatically stiffens as IOP increases beyond 30 mm Hg.
Scleral thickness for both eyes, which was acquired at 5 mm Hg and interpolated over the entire scleral region, is presented in Fig. 7. In all eyes, the peripapillary sclera was much thicker than the peripheral sclera. Figure 7 also includes additional results at an IOP of 30 mm Hg obtained from the inverse FE simulations. Note that there is an inverse relationship, but not strong, between scleral tangent modulus and scleral thickness, as depicted in Fig. 8. The structural stiffness, the local product of the tangent modulus and thickness, slightly captured this trend (Fig. 7) but was found to be on average higher in the peripapillary sclera (Table 1). From Fig. 7, the collagen fibers are generally circumferentially oriented around the ONH in 3 of the 4 sub-regions of the peripapillary sclera. Notice that the fibers from the peripapillary sclera were associated with a higher fiber concentration factor (k2 > k1 in Table 1), meaning a stronger anisotropy near the ONH.
The most critical output quantities (, S1, S2, 1st principal strain, and 1st principal stress) for K = 1 GPa and EONH = 1MPa are summarized in Table 2 for the 5th, 50th (median) and 95th percentiles of their distributions for both the peripheral and peripapillary sclera at IOPs of 10, 30 and 45 mm Hg. As seen in Table 2, the mean tangent moduli, , are 3 to 6 times higher at 45 mm Hg than at 10 mm Hg in both eyes. In addition, the mean 1st principal strain is a nonlinear function of IOP. Finally, The mean 1st principal strain is higher in the peripapillary sclera, whereas the mean 1st principal stress is higher in the peripheral sclera.
In this report, we introduce an experimental method to measure the 3-D displacements of monkey posterior sclera exposed to acute elevations of IOP from 5 to 45 mm Hg, and use the anisotropic hyperelastic model developed in Part I [1] along with an inverse FE method to extract scleral mechanical properties. Our findings demonstrate that our constitutive model can accurately predict the experimental 3-D displacements of the posterior scleral shell, and that the proposed inverse FE method can estimate a unique set of thirteen model parameters. We have thus captured the inhomogeneous, anisotropic, and nonlinear behavior of the posterior sclera when exposed to acute elevations of IOP.
This study used a pressurization test to measure scleral deformations under pressure load. Unlike traditional biaxial patch tests, the pressurization methodology allowed us to estimate mechanical properties for the entire posterior scleral shell in its physiologic configuration. In addition, the IOP range commonly experienced by normal and glaucomatous eyes was covered in one test set-up. Biaxial testing of an entire posterior scleral shell would require tests of scleral patches excised from many adjacent points, each of which would have to be flattened prior loading.
The results from our sensitivity study showed that the scleral bulk modulus, chosen large to ensure incompressibility, can vary between 0.1 and 1 GPa without affecting the overall mechanical behavior of the posterior sclera. Note that incompressibility in scleral tissue has been confirmed experimentally by Battaglioli and Kamm [28]. The other sensitivity analyses suggest that moderate variations in some of our model parameters result in slight variations in tangent moduli. Therefore, according to Table 1, we are confident to suggest that the ONH elastic modulus in the 0.1 – 5 MPa range will minimally affect the mechanical behavior of the posterior sclera, and that a change in regionalization scheme will lead to similar model parameter estimates, thus reinforcing our preliminary study on solution uniqueness. Because the tangent moduli are less prone to variations and easier to interpret as they are functions of IOP, we are currently developing a method to compare tangent modulus distributions so as to estimate changes in scleral stiffness between normal (young and old) and glaucomatous monkey eyes, which will be the topic of further reports.
The models predicted that, in the posterior sclera of monkey eyes, the collagen fibers were generally circumferentially oriented around the ONH in three of the four sub-regions of the peripapillary sclera, which is consistent with previous histologic results [29]. Furthermore, collagen fibers tended to be more highly concentrated along their preferred orientations in the peripapillary sclera as shown by the higher fiber concentration factor k2. This finding is also consistent with the literature which provides qualitative descriptions of the collagen fiber microstructure in the peripapillary and peripheral sclera. In the region immediately adjacent to the ONH, elastin and collagen fibers are highly aligned and organized into a circumferential ring around the scleral canal [29], whereas the collagen fibers in the peripheral sclera are irregularly arranged to form interwoven lamellae [30–32]. As seen in our first report [1], a high fiber concentration factor associated with a circumferential fiber organization will limit scleral canal expansion, and this may help the peripapillary sclera to protect the ONH. Although, it should be noted that small scleral canal expansion is usually associated with large posterior laminar deformation.
In the experimental pressure tests, we observed a high degree of nonlinearity that was manifested by much smaller incremental displacements when IOP was elevated above 30 mm Hg, which was also measured in porcine sclera in our previous study [33]. This nonlinearity was additionally observed in the tangent moduli and structural stiffnesses as they exponentially increased with IOP from 5 to 45 mm Hg.
Physiologically, the sclera is a load bearing structure to resist IOP and yet the eye may need to maintain its shape to preserve focused vision. Thus, it seems reasonable to assume that scleral thickness and tangent modulus should balance each other to ensure that the eye expands in a somewhat uniform manner with increasing IOP. In this study, we found an inverse relationship, but not strong, between scleral thickness and tangent modulus (Fig. 8). We have also defined an empirical measure, namely the structural stiffness, to capture this trend (Fig. 7). It should be noted that in the case of an idealized scleral shell geometry of spherical shape, constant thickness, and constant elastic modulus (using linear elastic theory), our definition of structural stiffness would be uniform for the entire scleral shell (i.e. constant elastic modulus times constant thickness). This ideal case would ensure homogeneous deformations within the peripheral sclera but not within the peripapillary sclera because of the discontinuity within the scleral shell due to the presence of the scleral canal. In fact, in our case, the structural stiffness was on average higher in the peripapillary sclera (Table 1), which might be a protective mechanism to minimize the deformations in the vicinity of the ONH. However, further study will be necessary to understand the relationship between the ultrastructural characteristics and the overall deformational-behavior of the posterior sclera.
Several limitations should be taken into consideration when viewing this work. First, we were unable to measure the 3-D deformations of each scleral shell during preconditioning, because the ESPI sensor requires about four seconds to acquire raw deformation data. Therefore, we were unable to carefully characterize the deformational behavior of the sclera during preconditioning, which could have caused permanent deformations in the tissue. However, because the normal IOP range in rhesus monkeys has been reported to be 14.9 ± 2.1 mm Hg [34], it is unlikely that preconditioning the tissues up to an IOP of 15 mm Hg would have induced any damage or permanent change in the tissue.
Second, we have assumed that the collagen fibers were the sole contributors to the nonlinear relationship between IOP and scleral deformations, and that the relative contributions of ground substance and collagen fibers to scleral mechanical properties were uniform throughout the scleral shell. These assumptions are well established when characterizing the mechanical behavior of collagenous soft tissues [35], but more work may be needed to characterize the influence of other constituents such as elastin and the effects of regional changes in collagen fiber diameter.
Third, the mechanical deformations for IOPs below 5 mm Hg has not been accounted for in this study because the scleral shells did not acquire their pressurized geometry until approximately 4 mm Hg of IOP was applied. Physiologic IOP for normal monkey eyes is generally above 5 mm Hg, but including information below 5 mm Hg could improve the model's predictions. In the future, one might attempt to resolve this computationally using the inverse elastostatic method [36, 37] to mathematically recover the initial stress-free configuration of an elastic body. However, this method is only valid on the premise that residual stresses are insignificant, which is not known for monkey posterior sclera.
Fourth, the boundary of the ONH was represented in the model using an ellipse fitted to the outer aspect of the dural sheath insertion, and was therefore larger than one would expect (~2 mm along the major axis in our model, compared with ~1.5 mm for an anatomic ONH). In addition, the ONH was modeled as a linear elastic plug of the same curvature and thickness of the surrounding sclera, but with its own modulus. Our sensitivity studies showed that the overall model behavior of the posterior sclera was not sensitive to the mechanical properties of the ONH, so these model assumptions have little impact on the reported results. On the contrary, the mechanical behavior of the ONH has been reported to be very sensitive to the mechanical properties of the posterior sclera [38]. This is consistent with the study conducted in Part I [1] showing that the distribution of the scleral collagen fibers had large effects on scleral canal expansion and laminar posterior deformation. However, in order to fully understand the interaction between the sclera and the ONH, more accurate data including the geometry of the scleral canal and the ONH, as well as the mechanical properties of the ONH and the surrounding scleral tissue need to be obtained.
Fifth, the true orientation of the collagen fiber alignment for the whole sclera is still lacking in literature, and we have attempted to predict it in this study (Fig. 7). Due to the relatively coarse discretization of the regions (eight for the whole posterior shell), we could only report an overall estimate of the preferred collagen fiber orientation within each region, and this might have led to large differences in the preferred fiber orientation between left and right eyes as observed in Fig. 7. It is currently unknown if inter-eye variations in preferred collagen fiber orientation is large. Even though our estimates of preferred collagen fiber orientation are rough and hampered by the discontinuity between region boundaries, we have more confidence in our tangent moduli and structural stiffnesses estimates since those quantities were unaffected by a change of regionalization pattern as obtained from the sensitivity analyses. In 1934, Kokott described spatial mapping of collagen fiber orientation for entire scleral shells using standard histology [39]. However, given the complex lamellar ultrastructure of the sclera, those data were not used in our study as they were crude estimates and did not present the collagen fiber distribution with the reported preferred fiber orientation. Future experimental work will be required to characterize collagen fiber distributions more precisely for entire scleral shells.
Finally, we used eight sub-regions for the posterior sclera to limit the number of model parameters to be extracted with the inverse FE method to thirteen. Using more than thirteen model parameters dramatically increases the computational time for each simulation [25] and can raise a further concern about the uniqueness of the predicted model parameters. As our primary interest is the biomechanics of the scleral canal and its effects on the contained ONH, we have concentrated four of the eight sub-regions to model the peripapillary sclera in the vicinity of the ONH. While we tested several other regionalization patterns with fewer regions and/or parameters (data not shown), the combination of eight sub-regions with thirteen parameters produced the best fit with the lowest cost function value (Eq. (2)). It should be noted that the sub-regional discretization of the posterior sclera resulted in discontinuity of the predicted model parameters (i.e., the preferred fiber orientation and the fiber concentration factor) across the boundaries between the sub-regions, as shown in Fig. 7.
The experimental and computational methodologies presented here have broad applicability to multi-axial mechanical testing and model parameter prediction of thin soft tissues with varying collagen fiber orientations. We are currently using these methods to characterize the mechanical properties of normal (young and old), and early- and moderate-stage glaucomatous monkey eyes. Mechanical testing and modeling of ocular soft tissues will contribute to our understanding of glaucomatous susceptibility of the ONH [40], posterior scleral damage [10], myopia [30], and a host of other ocular disorders. Since the posterior sclera determines the levels of strain and stress transmitted to the contained ONH and is altered in early experimental glaucoma [10], it is likely to play an important role in glaucomatous damage to the ONH.
This work was supported by the NIH (RO1EY11610; Dr. Claude Burgoyne). We would like to thank Juan Reynaud for his help with the ION computational server, Jonathan Grimm for his help with the parallel queuing system , Dr. David A. Rice for his help with the ultrasound device and Drs. Richard T. Hart, Michael D. Roberts and Ian A. Sigal for their valuable inputs and shared discussions.
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Premier League giants Arsenal could be prepared to offload the services of midfielder Mesut Ozil, should he continue his contract standoff with the club.
The World Cup winner has not made much of an influence on the club's proceedings in the second half of the season, and this has brought a sense of frustration among the club's faithful.
According to Express, via Don Balon, the German's stay in London could be limited until the end of the season after he was found swearing at medical officer Gary O'Driscoll when requested to perform a drugs test after the Spurs loss.
Ozil, who is on a £140,000-a-week package, is understood to be demanding at least a 200 percent rise in his current wages, and this is something the club are unlikely to match under any condition.
The former Real Madrid ace has failed to live up to his expectations in the big games this season, and this has made the scapegoat in what has been a disappointing campaign for the FA Cup finalists.
Arsenal face a must-win game against rivals Manchester United this weekend if they are to stand any chance of making the top-four positions.


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Every once in a while, you need to get away from it all.
I was a woman on the edge, shaken and shattered after a breakup that felt like it tore my entire world apart. My best friend, sick of watching me drown in misery and melancholy, harassed me until I agreed to go with her on a weeklong wilderness retreat.
She promised days spent bonding and getting in touch with our inner badasses. It was supposed to be all about the two of us roughing it and making do with the bare minimum. She assured me we were going to be pushed to our limits in ways that were unimaginable. Neither one of us could have ever guessed just how right she was.
Nowhere in the glossy brochure did it say anything about the fact I was going to have to battle the insufferable but deliciously rugged and sexy trail guide instead of the elements. The brochure also forgot to mention the part that warned when you left civilization behind, there was no place to pack your inhibitions and fears.
I was told that I would be facing a week where the only thing I should expect was the unexpected. However, no one mentioned that I was going to have to fight for my life - and my heart - as soon as I ventured into the unknown. I was a pro at hiding from my feelings, but when it came time to face a real threat, one that could change everything, I learned I was more of a no surrender, no retreat kind of girl.
Retreat is a stand-alone novel, the first in the Getaway series, which centers on the hardheaded and brokenhearted Warner brothers and the women who dare to love them.
These boys are very good at putting the wild in wilderness.
©2016 Jennifer M. Voorhees (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
"Another hit series for Jay!"
Jay Crownover makes a departure from her tatooed bad (good) boys and enters the world of ranchers/ cowboys. I was so looking forward to this book and I was not disappointed at all! I would given the story 10 stars if I could. I can't wait for the next book! I would have given 5 stars for Overall but the narration...
The only negative comment I have is with the narrator (as others have written). However, I'm not sure if it's the narrator or the director/ editor/ producer (who is responsible for the speed of narration?). When I started the book I wasn't sure how I was going to continue but then I changed the listening speed to from 1x to 1.25x on my device. I found the problem! This is the perfect speed. I had no trouble listening after that. In fact I couldn't stop!
Worth a credit? YES! But change the speed on your device.
"Loved the story more than narration"
Jay is a new to me author and I read the story before I listened to it. I love the story, so much happens to the heroine! I really liked her growth throughout. With the narration, I couldn't finish. I enjoyed the female parts but not the male. I am not sure if most had to do with the Wyoming accent (which I am from there and this is not a Wyoming accent) or just male in general but I just couldn't do it.
"I read the reviews"
I read the reviews and bought the book anyways. The first chapter was hard to get through just because the narrator over acted every word. As the story developed and more characters were introduced it got a lot better.
"Oh the tears and excitement!!"
I read this book as soon as Jay released it. I just finished listening to it. It is definitely getting added to my relisten list. Natasha did an amazing job relaying the emotion that were laid out by Jay. A must read/listen.
"On the fence!!"
It's Jay Crownover and that right there meant this was an auto download for me. Let me be honest, I struggled with this listen. The primary reason being the narrator. She was not the right fit for this book. Natasha wasn't horrible but she didn't bring the characters to life and I am used to with other narrators, Anyone who has listened to Crownover's past books knows that the characters are core to the story line. Basically, I would say Natasha will either be a narrator you can stand or one who puts you off.
As or the story... this was definitely different. Two besties head off on vacation. Most would think of a destination place, but these two decide to head off to a ranch. Luckily, the have hot and sexy almost cowboys. As a group of vacations set off for a week out in the wilderness, the hate between Leo and Cy turns hot which turns into more. The secondary characters are also interesting. There is an outside story that involves the DEA. A whole lot of bullets flying and more.
As usual I would say definitely worth my credit b/c it's Jay Crownover but I hope the next book gets a better narrator
Jay Crownover surpassed all my expectations with this riveting story that took me on an unstoppable journey of eager anticipation as flirty angsty banter leads to a toe-curling romance. But, before I could be lulled into a euphoric romance high, midway Ms Crownover expertly spins the story to include chilling suspense where nail-biting drama, danger and intrigue are cleverly weaved around an alpha hero and a feisty heroine who weren't expecting (and weren't ready) to fall hard.. and to fall deep during a time of turmoil and terror.
It was meant to be an easygoing retreat for Leora (aka Leo) and her bff Emry who'd talked Leo into it to try to cheer her up after being royally played by her ex who was shockingly married.. and married to her boss of all things.. but nothing could've prepared them for what was to come. It was meant to be an adventure holiday to taste Wyoming's Wild West where they would be part of a team who would casually trek the wilderness trails on horseback and camp out in two-man tents.. but nowhere in the brochure did it say you'll be riding for your lives, dodging bullets and praying for a miracle. It was meant to be a salve to Leo's injured heart, a girl's week away to chill out from their demanding jobs and a chance to push themselves out of their comfort zones. But never was it supposed to be a gruelling life-changing journey of epic highs and heart-shattering lows, of humor and heartache and of heated pleasure and gut-wrenching pain that would leave emotional and visual scars of what transpired one fateful week in Wyoming.
The Ranch was owned and run by the three Warner brothers.. all strong handsome rugged alpha types.. and Leo was instantly drawn to Cyrus (aka Cy) the oldest of the brothers whose deep voice did something to her libido. He was a strong sexy cowboy in biker boots.. but things didn't start off well when Leo made a remark that rubbed Cy the wrong way. From then on they butt heads with moody glances, fiery banter and gruff words.. but underneath the snipes there's heat and banked desire which sizzles in the air and slowly they start to get to know each other. And the sexual tension between them finally ignites in the shower scene.. then it's game on with a mutual agreement of passion and no promises. However, it was a very different tension that soon gripped the party when an unexpected threat leads to a shocking discovery.. and from then on it was a gruelling fight for survival.
Told entirely from Leo's POV this fast paced story started off well with a grumpy walls-up dark hero battling his desires for a red headed feisty City girl.. but it morphed into a gripping and tense journey into the unknown as nail-biting drama led to bloodshed, tears, fears and shattered souls. There was character development and self-discovery as Leo was well and truly forced out of her comfort zone, had starling revelations about herself and not only found a life she loved but the love of her life too. There were good sizzling sex scenes and heartbreaking emotional drama which made this an addictive rollercoaster ride I had to be forcefully pulled away from and I can't wait for the next instalment into the lives and loves of these loving Warner brothers. In the beginning I wasn't too sure about Natasha Soudek's narration which was too slow for me but, once I sped her up a bit (x 1.5), I was good to go and ended up really enjoying it.
Worth a credit? Yes definitely it delivered way way more than I expected.. multi-layered characters who had been damaged by love before but, despite the odds.. and during a time of deadly drama, they found their strengths, mended their hearts.. and thankfully took a chance on love one more time.
"5 Retreat Stars"
I loved this book and I am going to tell you why.
First we have to talk about the incredible relationship Leo & Em have, they are what everyone should have in a best friend. Leo is in need of some girl time and some time to come to terms with things from her past.
So Em convinces her to come with her the journey isn't easy but I loved that Em was there for Leo no matter what.
And in turn when Em needs her Leo is there for her. It's incredible to have a friendship like that.
We meet Cy, and his brothers. But it's Cy that draws Leo in. She can't help it this gruff brooding man has that something she is just drawn to, but it's not one sided either. And they both try hard to ignore it but that's the thing about attraction right; when it hits you are all in wither you're ready or not. (The Shower Scene people is hell-a HOT!!)
Their experience is something no one saw coming and it's going to change everyone involved. I loved the action and the interaction between all of the characters. It's not like your everyday romance book it's so much more. And I can't wait for the second book in this series! I need more.
I wasn't sure of Natasha's narration at first I kind of had to get used to her and her voices for the different characters. But once I did, I quiet enjoyed it.
Worth the credit.. Umm YEAH!
*You don't have to like my review but its 100% my opinion, and I am allowed to have it.*
"Narration Completely Ruined the Book"
Come on (rolling my eyes), why do you all continue to do this to us? We all know Jay Crownover is an excellent author, but why do you continue to ruin the books with your poor choice in performers. I couldn't even finish it, sounds like she was straining just to speak and the slow monotone made it worst; my throat was hurting for her (similar to seeing or hearing someone throw up and it causes you to do the same). Sorry, I call for a re-read in order to adequately provide a helpful review.
"Way TOO much introspection!"
I paid for the audiobook, so I felt compelled to finish it. Even as the main character droned on and on about herself, her feelings, her mental agonizing, which made it somewhat more of a chore to finish than a pleasure. To top it off --whoever chose the narrator for this story must have felt that a voice that drones would fit a story that does the same -- either did a very Good job matching story to voice -- or simply didn't care that sub par narration wouldn't matter with a story that dragged out way too much with the internal musings of the self absorbed main character. Sorry for a poor review but I was sorry for the money I spent on the audiobook.
"Two thumbs up!"
I loved the narrator. I honesty didn't realize that it was a female narrator throughout the whole book.
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Intel SSD DC P3700 1.6TB PCIe NVMe Enterprise Review
4k Random Read/Write
We precondition the 1.6TB Intel DC P3700 for 9,000 seconds, or two and a half hours, receiving performance reports every second. We plot this data to illustrate the drives' descent into steady state.
This dual-axis chart consists of 18,000 data points, with the IOPS on the left and the latency on the right. The red dots signify IOPS, and the grey dots are latency measurements during the test. We place latency data in a logarithmic scale to bring it into comparison range. The lines through the data scatter are the average during the test. This type of testing presents standard deviation and maximum/minimum I/O in a visual manner.
Note that the IOPS and Latency figures are nearly mirror images of each other. This illustrates that high-granularity testing gives our readers a good feel for latency distribution by viewing IOPS at one-second intervals. This should be in mind when viewing our test results below. This downward slope of performance only happens during the first few hours of use, and we present precondition results only to confirm steady state convergence.
Each level tested includes 300 data points (five minutes of one second reports) to illustrate performance variability. The line for each OIO depth represents the average speed reported during the five-minute interval. 4k random speed measurements are an important metric when comparing drive performance, as the hardest type of file access for any storage solution to master is small-file random. One of the most sought-after performance specifications, 4k random performance is a heavily marketed figure.
The Intel DC P3700 averages 467,055 IOPS at 256 OIO (Outstanding I/O). The HGST FlashMAX II averages 350,532 IOPS and the Micron P420m averages 774,958 IOPS. The Intel provides great scaling at lower queue depths. Although it is beat slightly by the FlashMAX II at 8 & 16 OIO, it pulls ahead at 32 and 64 OIO. This highlights the performance tuning for lighter workloads. The P420m performance is massive at higher loads, easily topping the chart.
Latency is often the most important metric, and the DC P3700 provides solid scaling as we move to higher loads, where the P420m takes over.
The DC P3700 provides great performance but the P420m eventually tops it with tremendous read speed. The DC P3700 delivers high performance with relatively low latency.
The Intel DC P3700 averages 147,846 IOPS at 256 OIO, the FlashMAX II averages 119,662 IOPS, and the P420m averages 98,304 IOPS. The DC P3700 actually peaks from 16-64 OIO, again indicative of the tuning for this performance segment. The high performance is also coupled with consistent performance, but the FlashMAX II also delivers a very tight band of performance.
The DC P3700 easily leads this test while the P420m experiences some turbulence under the heavy write workload.
The DC P3700 settles far to the right in this test, indicating a superior IOPS to latency ratio. The FlashMAX II takes a heavier workload to get going, but the P420m and the DC P3700 deliver their maximum performance even under low write workloads.
Our write percentage testing illustrates the varying performance of each solution with mixed workloads. The 100% column to the right is a pure 4k write workload, and 0% represents a pure 4k read workload.
The DC P3700 loses to the P420m in the read-centric 0-20% categories, but takes the lead for the remainder of the test. We conduct this test at 256 OIO, and the P3700 actually has higher performance at lower OIO, so performance is incrementally better during this test with a lower OIO.
The DC P3700 manages to best the FlashMAX II in mixed latency performance in this test.
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The company, which saw trading profit slide 9 per cent in the first half of the year as rain and snow hit US building programmes, said it would report underlying earnings for 2003 would in line with analysts' forecasts, which are grouped around £320 million.
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Katie went in for her two month check up on Tuesday and she is one healthy little girl. She now weighs 12lbs 12oz which puts her in the 100th percentile if you go by weight for age. If you go by weight for length (she is 23 in.) she is in the 75th percentile. So she is growing and getting bigger by the day. She is also smiling a lot more now and is particularly happy after she wakes up from a "good" nap. Those good naps are not happening very often now though because she thinks it's time to wake up after 30 minutes. Occasionally I can get her to fall back asleep in her swing and then she will sleep for another hour or so. Nights are still the same for us and I am done trying to figure her out in that department. I have been keeping track of when she eats and when she naps with the hope of seeing a pattern but my record keeping hasn't really shown me much. We have started putting her down a half hour earlier so she goes to bed at 8:00 which means she usually falls asleep by 8:30. Then she is up between 1-2 and then again between 4:30-5:30. I am REALLY hoping we can eliminate one of those feedings by the time I go back to work. And speaking of sleep here are some pictures of her in peaceful slumber. She fell asleep playing for the first time and I just couldn't believe it because she wasn't swaddled.
Then this time she fell asleep eating and I just moved her Boppy and all to the couch.
Well little miss is waking up again so off I go. One last picture of mommy and her little munch.
I forgot to mention that Katie didn't get her shots at the Dr. appointment either after all of my worrying about it. Finally, after waiting 15 minutes for the nurse to come back with the shots (we had already been there over an hour and I was getting very impatient) she comes in and tells me they are out of the IPV vaccine. Apparently they had some refrigeration problems and had to throw them out so they were waiting for the new batch to come in. She asks me if I want to do the other two and come back for the third one later and I said no thank you! I would much rather get them done all at once rather than have to go through the pain and crying twice.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
2 comments:
- shannon said...
Andrea...she keeps getting cuter and cuter!!! Are you enjoying being a mommy and being home with her?
- March 5, 2009 at 11:10 AM
- Andrea and Jeff said...
I am loving being a mommy and for the most part enjoy being home with her. It gets tiring though being in mommy mode 24 hours a day so I think it will be good for me to go back to work 2 days a week. She loves her daddy but is definitely more attached to me which makes it hard to get a break because she tends to cry more with Jeff.
- March 5, 2009 at 11:18 AM
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Your sprites are a little shaky so you should do a precision check once through with them.
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More characters, though that would defeat the purpose of "Naruto vs Sasuke"
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Date Published: 7th March 2014
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