PURPOSE To examine the associations of near work related parameters with spherical equivalent refraction and axial length in Chinese children. METHODS A total of 1770 grade 7 students with mean age of 12.7 years were examined with cycloplegic autorefraction and axial length. Questions were asked regarding time spent in near work and outdoors per day, and near work related parameters. RESULT...

‘Close reading’ of texts has become a central activity humanities pedagogy and is carried out across different levels education through number disciplines. The analysis as part educational practice sometimes claimed to be very recent phenomenon, attendant on the formulation idea text in early 1960s (Lotman, 1964; Barthes, 1977 [1964]) and, slightly earlier, English tradition, with respect exerc...

A recent Ontario arbitral award is reshaping the way employers and employees must approach the legal duty to accommodate employees with disabilities in the workplace. Entrenched in both federal and provincial human rights legislation, the duty to accommodate imposes a legal obligation on employers to accommodate employees with disabilities unless such accommodation would cause undue hardship on...

We analyze the distribution of ∑ m i=1 vixi where x1, . . . ,xm are fixed vectors from some lattice L ⊂ R (say Z) and v1, . . . , vm are chosen independently from a discrete Gaussian distribution over Z. We show that under a natural constraint on x1, . . . ,xm, if the vi are chosen from a wide enough Gaussian, the sum is statistically close to a discrete Gaussian over L. We also analyze the cas...