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Skin being an important protective organ of body has its own functional and cosmetic values. Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a disease comprising of heterogenous skin manifestations with intense itching. AD affects people of all age groups and ethnicities and has psychosocial impact on the patient. Being the leading cause of global burden of skin disease, this disease also enhances the chances of developing food allergy, allergic asthma etc. Moreover, due to poor hygiene and decreased protective barrier function, AD often gets infected by certain pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus, Malassezia, Molluscum etc.), as a result of which patient suffers from life-threatening complications. Absence of specific diagnostic test with gradual escalation in the disease burden makes it one of the chief concerns for the health care workers. For dermatological diseases, homoeopathy stands out as a prime choice for many patients. In this case, a 72-year-old male patient presented with symptoms of dry, itchy eruptions on right hand for the last 2 years. He also developed similar itching eruptions in and around navel. The patient was clinically diagnosed with AD and treated with individualised homoeopathic treatment. Initially, he was prescribed Tuberculinum which improved the patient and finally he was cured by Sulphur.

Consider a group of autonomous mobile computational entities called robots. The robots move in the Euclidean plane and operate according to synchronous Look-Compute-M ove cycles. The computational capabilities of the robots under the four traditional models {OBLOT , FST A, F COM, LUMI} have been extensively investigated both when the robots had unlimited amount of energy and when the robots were energy-constrained. In both the above cases, the robots had full visibility. In this paper, this assumption is removed, i.e., we assume that the robots can view up to a constant radius Vr from their position (the Vr is same for all the robots) and, investigates what impact it has on its computational capabilities. We first study whether the restriction imposed on the visibility has any impact at all, i.e., under a given model and scheduler does there exist any problem which cannot be solved by a robot having limited visibility but can be solved by a robot with full visibility. We find that the answer to the question in general turns out to be positive. Next we try to get an idea that under a given model, which of the two factors, V isibility or Synchronicity is more powerful and conclude that a definite conclusion cannot be drawn. We restrict our investigations to {OBLOT , FST A, FCOM} models and to synchronous schedulers only. The results in LUMI model is yet to be determined.

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