Brain Stem
                        Could You Help My Baby, Tasnim ?
My Baby Tasnim is Two years old. Since six months she is terribly sick. Symptonms started suddenly by convulsions in the neck and ended now by inability to
move. Docotors Diagnostics was " Atumour in the brain stem". We have done
15 sets of Irradiation and 9 sets of raditherapy followed by Physiotherapy.
There is a slight improvements in the case.

Recently, I read about a new trend of treatment using a type of injection which
liquify the tumour or break it into a small pieces then those pieces are further aspirated by a tube.

My question is : Is ther any information about this type of treatment ?.
The type of injections and how frequent is it ?. Also where could  I get this
treatment and who is the Doctor that can start this type of treatment ?.
Upon reading this mail, Please remember that my only daughter is now in
her bed waiting for your reply and for a miracle from OUR GOD.

Thank you for your help.

e-mail : tho…@ritsec1.com.eg
or     : soli…@frcu.eun.eg

It is my understanding that the halos and glare experienced by many LASIK
(and PRK) patients is due to light entering the eye at (and beyond) the
edge of the ablated zone when the pupil is dialated beyond 6mm.  (Assuming
a 6mm ablation zone.)  This makes sense to me.  However, I recently
learned that my soft toric contact lenses have an optical zone of only
about 7mm.  My pupils happen to dialate well beyond 6mm, even in low
light, yet I get no halo or glare from my contacts.  This night vision
impairment is one of the primary reasons I am currently staying away from
refractive surgery.  So…two questions:

1). Why would I not get this effect from my CLs?
2). Is there any reason to think that the effect would be less with LASIK
than with PRK?  (If so, I’d love to hear why.)

Thanks for your responses.

For those interested,  an article in Science News Vol 151 (April 12, 1997)
concerns research being done in Germany using solar cells as a substitute
for retinal receptors. They are developing an eye implant, based on a solar
cell, for people who have lost their sight because of a disease of the
retina. This research, if fruitful, will particularly benefit those with
Retinitis Pigmentosa.

+- Lois -+
afn12…@afn.org

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              Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

                           3rd CAOS-SYMPOSIUM
                 Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery
                           November 6-8, 1997
                           Bern, Switzerland

For the third time  the  CAOS-Symposium  brings together  surgeons and techno-
logists  to provide  state of the art  and  future  innovations in the rapidly
evolving  field of  Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery.  Emerging  computer
based technologies  hold a great potential  for improving clinical outcome and
will soon influence the way we design,  plan,  simulate,  and execute surgical
approaches.
The objectives of  the symposium  are to present  the most current thinking on
the impact of computer assisted surgical techniques  on the daily clinical and
surgical routine,  to educate surgeons in the use of these techniques,  and to
promote a new partnership  between surgeons  and  technologists as a necessary
basis for the successful integration of computer assisted surgery systems.
The format  at the meeting  will  consist of invited lectures  presented by an
internationally  recognized  faculty  as well as  presentations  of  submitted
papers  reviewed by a distinguished  program committee.  Also featured will be
live computer assisted surgeries in different anatomical areas.  This year the
clinically oriented  hands on  workshop about  different  CAOS  techniques and
systems will be  extented  significantly,  a unique educational experience for
practicing orthopaedic surgeons.
The symposium’s format will provide ample opportunity for personal interaction
with faculty and other symposium participants.

                   #################################
                   #  T H E   C A O S   A W A R D  #
                   #################################
In order to encourage research  in the field of  Computer Assisted Orthopaedic
Surgery,  a prize of  sfr. 3000  for the best paper  of  the symposium will be
given.  A board of referees  will  make  their  selection  from  all  extended
abstracts.  Papers must reach the CAOS-Secretary not later than July 15, 1997.
One of the authors  should  be  prepared  to  come  to Bern at the time of the
meeting to present the paper and to receive the award.
——————————————————————————
For further information contact:

CAOS-Secretary
M.E. Mueller Institute for Biomechanics
P.O. Box 30
CH-3010 Bern
Switzerland
Phone: +41-31-632-8719
Fax:   +41-31-632-4951
Email: c…@mem.unibe.ch
WWW:   <URL:http://cranium.unibe.ch/cas/caos.html>

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you know about an available service that
provides natural and recombiant reagents for researchers engaged in the
study of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis in industry and academia.  If
this is of interest to you please see Molecular Innovations web page at
http://www.mol-innov.com/

–
Esther Goodman
Over TheNet

I have been experiencing "rings" in my vision at various times and at
various intervals from once a week up to 3 or 4 times a week. They
just seem to appear with no warning and last from a few minutes up to
an hour. The "rings" can best be described as holes in glass (jagged
edges) and are very bright. They are very annoying and make it very
difficult to see. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please post
or email reply to crmar…@netsync.net

Temporary help available

Data entry
Envelope stuffing
And any other office duties that you despise and/or don’t have the
resources for.

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–
Jason Greenwald
jgrn…@freenet.columbus.oh.us

Is there an excellent (and detailled) very recent book about the lasik
procedure for correction myopia?

If so, i would appreciate to have all informations so that i can
order it from my library.

Thanks in advance

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Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Visualization in Scientific
Computing

                            Boulogne sur Mer, France
                                April 28-30, 1997

                      http://www-lil.univ-littoral.fr/~visc97

                                   ———-

                      ADVANCE PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION FORM

                                      —-

Monday, April 28
—————-

11:00 – 12:00  and
13:00 – 14:00  Registration

14:00 – 14:15  Opening Statement

14:15 – 15:30  Invited talk: Mikael Jern, AVS/UNIRAS, Denmark
               "Information Drill-down using Web Tools"

15:30 – 16:00  Break

16:00 – 18:00  Session 1: Virtual Reality and Visualization over the Web
               Chair: Frits Post

  Rock`n’Roll: Using VRML 2.0 for Visualization
  J. Walton, D. Knight
  NAG Ltd, UK

  A Prototype for a WWW-based Visualization Service
  J. Trapp, H-G. Pagendarm
  National Aerospace, Germany

  The Perspective Tunnel: An Inside View on Smoothly Integrating Detail
and
  Context
  K. Mitchell, J. Kennedy
  Napier University at Edinburgh, UK

  Engineering on the Responsive Workbench
  G. Wesche, J. Wind, W. Heiden, F. Hasenbrink, M. Goebel
  German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany

18:00 – 19:00  BOF: "Visualization in Distributed Environments:
Meta-computing,
                     Telework and CSCW"
               Moderators: Michel Grave, ONERA & Univ. of La Rochelle,
France
                           Mikael Jern, AVS/UNIRAS, Denmark

19:00  Workshop Reception

Thuesday, April 29
——————

9:00 – 10:30  Session 2: Flow Visualization
              Chair: Jarke van Wijk

  Efficient and Reliable Integration Methods for Particle Tracing in
Unsteady
  Flows on Discrete Meshes
  C. Teitzel, R. Grosso, T. Ertl
  University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany

  Creating Evenly-Spaced Streamlines of Arbitrary Density
  B. Jobard, W. Lefer
  University of Littoral, France

  Line Integral Convolution for Arbitrary 3D Surface through Solid
Texturing
  X. Mao, M. Kikukawa, N. Fujita, A. Imamiya
  University of Yamanashi, Japan

10:30 – 11:00  Break

11:00 – 13:00  Session 3: Information Visualization
               Chair: Mikael Jern

  A Framework for Physically-Based Information Visualization
  T. Sprenger, M. Gross, A. Eggenberger, M. Kaufmann
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

  Evaluation of Marine Data by Visual Means
  H. Schumann, B. Urban
  University of Rostock, Germany

  Feature Extraction from Pioneer Venus OCPP Data
  F. Reinders, F. Post, H. Spoelder
  Delft University of technology &
  Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Visualization in Topology: Assembling the Projective Plane
  S. Klimenko, I. Nikitin, M. Goebel, H. Tramberend
  Russian Center of Computing for Physics and Technology &
  German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany

13:00 – 14:30  Lunch

14:30 – 17:00  Social event 1: Visit of the Nausicaa Center

17:00 – 19:00  Session 4 : Surface Extraction and Visualization
               Chair: Markus Gross

  Polygon Mesh Generation for Discrete Surfaces in 3D Space
  G. Thuermer, C. Wuthrich
  University of Weimar, Germany

  Visualization of Finite Element Data Through Irregular and Regular DSR
  T. Simpson
  University of Wales at Swansea, UK

  Combining Wawelet Transform and Graph Theory for Feature Extraction
and
  Visualization
  C. Luerig, R. Grosso, T. Ertl
  University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany

  Interactive Segmentation and Analysis of Fetal Ultrasound Images
  K. Subramanian, D. Lawrence, M. Taghi Mostafavi
  University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

20:00  Social event 2: Dinner

Wednesday, April 30
——————-

9:00 – 11:00  Session 5: Hierarchical Representations and Methods
              Chair: Hans-Georg Pagendarm

  Volume Rendering by Template-Based Octree Projection
  R. Srinivasan, S. Fang, S. Huang
  National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Efficient Visualization of Large-Scale Data on Hierarchical Meshes
  R. Neubauer, M. Ohlberger, M. Rumpf, R. Schworer
  University of Bonn & University of Freiburg, Germany

  Wawelet Transform for Synthesis of Solids defined by 3-Connected
Meshes
  A. Doncescu, J-P. Gourret
  University of La Rochelle, France

  Controlled Lossy Compression of Multidimensional Data
  P. Diblik, P. Slavik
  Technical University of Prague, Czech Republik

11:00 – 11:30  Break

11:30 – 12:45  BOF: "Virtual Reality and Visualization: New
Understandings by
                     Immersive Visualization, Data Presence and
Cyber-Mining"
               Moderators: Jacques David, CEA/DI Saclay, France
                           Martin Goebel, NGRC for IT, Germany

13:00 – 14:30  Lunch

14:30 – 16:00  Session 6 : Visualization for Simulation Steering
               Chair: Jacques David

  Simulation of Differential Interferometry and Comparison with
Experimental
  Results
  R. Wegenkittl, E. Groeller
  Vienna University of Technology, Austria

  Hierarchical Streamarrows for the Visualization of Dynamical Systems
  H. Loffelmann, L. Mroz, E. Groeller
  Vienna University of Technology, Austria

  Parametrizable Cameras for 3D Computational Steering
  J. Mulder, J. van Wijk
  Center for Mathematics and Computer Science CWI &
  Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN, The Netherlands

16:00 – 16:30  Break

16:30 – 17:00  Closing Session

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Registration Form
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Registration fees (all amounts are in French francs):

       Workshop fees:  EG members: 1000
                       Non EG members: 1500

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       Hotel fees (including breakfast): 250 per night

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If you need to reserve additional nights please contact us as soon as
possible.
Registration fees will cover the participants edition of the
proceedings,
lunches, refreshments during coffee breaks, the final proceedings book
(to be
mailed after the workshop) and both social events.
Fees should be paid in French francs by one of the following ways:

  [ ]  Cheque to the order of:
       "Agent comptable de l’Universite du Littoral (ViSC’97)"
       Please note that postal cheques are not allowed.

  [ ]  Bank transfert to the bank account number:  40003028404
       "R.F. DUNKERQUE
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Please make sure that the credited sum will be net amount after bank
taxes.

Join a copy of the bank documents together with the registration form.

I authorize the organizers to include:                     Yes       No
                      – my name, address and e-mail:       [ ]       [ ]
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For transportation information, check out the Web address of the
workshop.

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Return this form to the address below:

            Wilfrid Lefer
            ViSC’97 office
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or Fax to:  (+33) 3.21.19.06.61

E-mail:     vis…@lil.univ-littoral.fr

===============================================================================

I am in Industrial Hygiene and would like to know more about sampling of
toxins in air, experiences with growth in air handling systems(mold
fungi),hypersensitivity pneumonitis diagnosis and other related topics
please forward any information to mberk…@PG908.jsc.nasa.gov

Matthew L. Berkheiser
Industrial Hygienist
Environmental Health Services

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