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PURPOSE To develop a criterion for determining the topographic progression of keratoconus and to analyze the prognostic factors of progression. METHODS Medical records of 211 eyes of 128 patients who had been followed up for more than 2 years on three or more occasions were retrospectively reviewed. Topographic parameters, including simulated K, corneal astigmatism, irregular astigmatism at 3...

Traditional approaches to analyzing experimental functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data entail fitting per-voxel parameters to explain how the observed images reflect the thoughts and stimuli a participant experienced during the experiment. These methods implicitly assume that voxel responses are independent and that the unit of analysis should be the voxel. However, both of these as...

Abstract Assessment and estimation of soil loss is a fundamental aspect land water resource conservation management practices as it provides necessary information in the course watershed-level development region. The model Wischmeier Smith, popularly known Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation, was selected to estimate lower Kulsi river basin due its simplicity, versatility, flexibility nature m...

The impact of topographic attributes on the uneven distribution of seismic response and associated devastation has frequently been observed and documented during seismic events, but has rarely been investigated at a regional scale. Existing numerical and experimental techniques applied to explore the impact of topographic attributes in the aggravation of seismic response, have been limited to i...

The complex mass term of a quark does not violate time-reversal or parity in gravitational interactions, in spite of an axial anomaly. Time-reversal is known to be violated in the weak interactions. Mass terms q̄LMqR + ̄̃qLM̃q̃R+hc are generated for quarks q having charge + 2 3 and quarks q̃ having charge − 1 3 in the shape of complex matrices M, M̃ from electroweak symmetry breaking. On diagonalizati...

Electrophysiological studies of symmetry have found a difference wave termed the Sustained Posterior Negativity (SPN) related to the presence of symmetry. Yet the extent to which the SPN is modulated by luminance-polarity and colour content is unknown. Here we examine how luminance-polarity distribution across the symmetry axis, grouping by luminance polarity, and the number of colours in the s...

Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) is a well-known acronym in qualitative research. Nowadays, qualitative researchers are inclined to apply such software for various purposes. Critiques of the use of CAQDAS in qualitative research focus on the term “analysis”, claiming that that the tool does little to analyze data. According to these critiques, some users of CAQDAS a...