The second volume of "Cataract and Refractive Surgery" in the Essentials in Ophthalmology series provides new information on cataract and refractive surgery. The chapters discuss new techniques and technology. The emphasis is on areas that are rapidly evolving and essential to sophisticated clinical practice. The book has a well-structured text and design, and is quick and easy to read. It bridges the gap between primary literature and daily practice. This book will help clinicians provide the best results for their cataract and refractive surgical patients and is also indispensable for continuous education and advanced training.

Refraktive Chirurgie – in allen Facetten und mit Videos Die Refraktive Chirurgie hat in den letzten Jahren weiter an Bedeutung gewonnen, ist sie doch für immer mehr Menschen das Mittel der Wahl für eine gute Sicht. Ebenso gibt es zahlreiche Entwicklungen und technische Neuerungen in diesem Feld. Diese komplett überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage widmet sich allen Aspekten der Refraktionschirurgie nach aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Kenntnissen und baut auf den Erfahrungsschatz zahlreicher Experten. Operateure erhalten wertvolle Hinweise zur optimalen Vorbereitung und Durchführung des Eingriffs und zur Nachbetreuung ihrer Patienten. Aus dem Inhalt ·         Grundlagen zur Optik, Anatomie und Physiologie ·         Indikation und Diagnostik ·         Refraktive Hornhautchirurgie: Excimerlaser, Femtosekundenlaser, Komplikationsmanagement ·         Refraktive intraokulare Chirurgie: Intraokularlinsen, Techniken, Kalkulation und Linsenextraktion ·         Patientenberatung und -aufklärung Plus OP-Videos Alle wichtigsten Operationstechniken werden in Videos dargestellt und geben wertvolle Hilfestellung. Fundiert, umfassend, aktuell: Alle Aspekte der refraktiven Chirurgie von der Hornhaut- über die Intraokularchirurgie bis zur Presbyokopiekorrektur.

The Essentials in Ophthalmology series represents readership acceptance of the first two series, each of an unique updating publication on the progress in all eight volumes. This is a success that was made p- subspecialties of ophthalmology. sible predominantly by the numerous opinion-leading In a quarterly rhythm, eight issues are published authors and the outstanding section editors, as well as covering clinically relevant achievements in the whole with the constructive support of the publisher. There field of ophthalmology. This timely transfer of advance- are many good reasons to continue and still improve ments for the best possible care of our eye patients has the dissemination of this didactic and clinically r- proven to be effective. The initial working hypothesis of evant information. providing new knowledge immediately following p- lication in the peer-reviewed journal and not waiting G.K. Krieglstein for the textbook appears to be highly workable. R.N. Weinreb We are now entering the third cycle of the Essentials Series Editors in Ophthalmology series, having been encouraged by September 2008 Preface We are pleased to share with our readers this Third uncorrected and, in one instance, corrected vision. Edition of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, less than Topics in corneal refractive surgery include disc- three years from publication of the Second Edition. sion of the management of higher order aberrations The dramatic pace of change in cataract and refractive and corneal procedures for treating presbyopia.

The study describes the evolution of English participial and gerundial constructions in Middle English and early modern English, concentrating in the process on the function of text varieties in language change. Building on a detailed analysis of all the relevant constructions in six text varieties taken from a revised version of the Helsinki Corpus, the author demonstrates that the proliferation of the main construction types through text varieties takes place in an ordered sequence. The function of text varieties in language change is identified as that of a catalyst.

Der 11. Kongressband der DGII behandelt in seinen Hauptthemen flexible, oberflachenmodifizierte und multifokale Intraokularlinsen sowie deren Berechnungen und Lagebestimmung, Kataraktoperationstechniken und Komplikationen (Kapselspannringimplantation), neueste Verfahren zur Nachstarreduktion und Intraokularlinsenimplantation bei Kindern, die kombinierte Chirurgie von Katarakt und Glaukom oder Hornhautveranderungen sowie die Interaktion zwischen Kataraktchirurgie und hinterem Augenabschnitt. Neben neuesten Erkenntnissen in der Infektionsprophylaxe, Pharmakotherapie und Anasthesie werden nichtinvasive Untersuchungsmethoden und Datenaustauschmoglichkeiten fur die Vorderabschnittschirurgie behandelt und neueste Entwicklungen in der refraktiven Chirurgie wie LASIK, PRK und Intraokularlinsenimplantation dargestellt."

This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and the Indo-European background of English, it gives an outline of the major periods of the language (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English), with a brief examination of the perspectives of present-day English. Each period chapter provides information about the socio-historical background, the core areas of linguistic structure, discourse, speech acts and genres, and concludes with study questions and exercises.

Based on a large sample of press data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC), the book undertakes a detailed investigation of present-day English proper names, an important but under-researched area in English linguistics. Employing the statistical technique of binary logistic regression, this book presents a new method of analysing non-discrete categories in linguistics with reference to the grammatical notion of gradience and the principle of parsimony. The focus is particularly on the grammatical factors influencing the choice between use and non-use of the definite article a well-known issues of uncertainty in modern English. The study also concentrates on multiword organisation names, which have been little studied, although they occur frequently in newspaper language and have special characteristics of their own. By making precise predictive statements about the conditions under which the definite article is preferred or dispreferred, the book is also able to shed light on the theory of linguistic performance.