Abstract This update of the Ok (OK) blood group system (Smart EA, Storry JR. The OK system: a review. Immunohematology 2010;26:124–6) focuses on new information role basigin (BSG), carrier molecule antigens. No further antigens have been identified since original However, BSG in malaria continues to be explored. 2021;37:18–19.

PURPOSE To investigate the effect of overnight orthokeratology (OK) contact lens wear on axial length growth in East Asian children with progressive myopia. DESIGN A prospective, randomized, contralateral-eye crossover study conducted over a 1-year period. PARTICIPANTS We enrolled 26 myopic children (age range, 10.8-17.0 years) of East Asian ethnicity. METHODS Subjects were fitted with ov...

The accurate estimation of gridded daily precipitation is critical to hydrological modelling and water resource assessment. High resolution precipitation datasets based on gauge rainfall are the primary input to spatially distributed rainfall-runoff models and water balance calculations (e.g. Chiew et al., 2008). The spatial heterogeneity of rainfall variability is currently not captured adequa...

PURPOSE To investigate thickness profile changes of the corneal epithelium and Bowman's layer at the vertical and horizontal meridians with overnight myopia orthokeratology (OK) lenses. METHODS Twenty subjects (age range: 19-33 years) wore reverse-geometry rigid gas-permeable OK lenses in both eyes for 30 days. Before lens wear and after 1, 7, and 30 days of overnight lens wear, evaluation of...

BACKGROUND Lymphangiomas are congenital malformations of the lymphatic system with characteristic dilated endothelium-lined spaces. It is vulnerability to infection or chemical irritants cause spontaneous reduction in size and in some cases complete resolution. Intralesional injection of OK-432 or Picibanil (lyophilized incubation mixture of Group A Streptococcus pyogenes of human origin) is sl...

determining the promising area for ore deposits is one of the most important steps of prospecting in regional scales. there are many different methods for identifying these areas including geochemical and geophysical methods, remote sensing and sophisticated statistical methods. based on the theory of spatial relations between the dispersion pattern of ore deposits and metallogenic provinces, m...

Mohammad-Hossein Golbon-Haghighi 1,2,*, Guifu Zhang 1,2,3, Yinguang Li 1 and Richard J. Doviak 1,3,4 1 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA; [email protected] (G.Z.); [email protected] (Y.L.); [email protected] (R.J.D.) 2 Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, USA 3 School of Meteorology, University of O...

Direct Neural Network Residual Kriging (DNNRK) is a two step algorithm (Kanevsky et al. 1995). The first step includes estimating large scale structures by using artificial neural networks (ANN) with simple sum of squares error function. ANN, being universal approximators, model overall non-linear spatial pattern fairly well. ANN are model free estimators and depend only on their architecture a...

Reliable prediction of subsurface flow and contaminant transport depends on the accuracy with which the values and spatial distribution of process-relevant model parameters can be identified. Successful characterization methods for complex soil systems are based on (1) an adequate parameterization of the subsurface, capable of capturing both random and structured aspects of the heterogeneous sy...

Tropospheric ozone (O3) pollution is a major problem worldwide, including in the United States of America (USA), particularly during the summer months. Ozone oxidative capacity and its impact on human health have attracted the attention of the scientific community. In the USA, sparse spatial observations for O3 may not provide a reliable source of data over a geo-environmental region. Geostatis...