purpose: to determine the accuracy of photorefraction and autorefraction as compared to cycloautorefraction and to detect the repeatability of photorefraction. methods: this diagnostic study included the right eyes of 86 children aged 7‑12 years. refractive status was measured using photorefraction (plusoptix so4, gmbh, nürnberg, germany) and autorefraction (topcon rm800, usa) with and without ...

dairy cattle breeding programs have been based in the selection for traits related to milk production. in this research a data set of 63 herds of east azerbaijan province holstein cattle, collected during 2002-2013 by the iranian animal breeding center was used to estimate the repeatability and heritability of three traits of economic importance. genetic parameters for first three lactations of...

the dynamic probe is an effective tool used in site investigation. it is more economic than the use of direct drilling, particularly in explorations with moderate depth. this paper presents an experimental study to investigate the capability of using dynamic probing to evaluate the shear strength and compaction percent of fine soil. a series of dynamic probe tests were carried out at 6 differen...

Macrobenthos is a good indicator to evaluate the potential effects of human activities on marine benthic ecosystem. In environmental impact assessments (EIAs), macrobenthic species identification typically based morphological characteristics, time-consuming and labor-intensive process for which specific taxonomic knowledge experts are needed. DNA metabarcoding can circumvent most these shortcom...

In this paper, we display experimental results about the measurement of repeatability of an industrial Kuka robot. We first study the distributions of the angular positions and show that these distributions can be considered as Gaussian. We compute repeatability in different locations of the workspace using the experimental angular covariance matrix and the stochastic ellipsoid modeling. We mea...

The aim of this study was to assess the repeatability of an observational gait analysis score that was developed specifically for unilateral amputees. Ten videotaped sequences were analysed by six experienced observers on two separate occasions. Data were analysed using percentage agreement, the kappa statistic and the coefficient of repeatability. The score demonstrated good intraobserver repe...

genetic parameters and trends for milk and fat yields as well as for fat percentage were estimated from 35,438 milk production records (305d, 2x) of 17,971 holstein dairy cattle in 133 herds during the period of 1990-2003 in khorasan province. variance components were estimated using restricted maximum likelihood statistical method applying univariate and repeatability animal models. for the un...

1. Transcranial Doppler measurements of the mean blood flow velocity and the resistance index in the middle cerebral artery are used to assess cerebral haemodynamics. The prerequisite for the use of these parameters in clinical pharmacology studies is an evaluation of their repeatability and spontaneous variation with time. 2. Repeatability of transcranial Doppler measurements of mean blood flo...

repeatability, (the consistency with which a given trait is expressed) of aggressiveness against prey (attack latency) in gravid females of the predatory mite neoseiulus californicus (mcgregor) was examined. in two experiments, prey - conspecific individuals, the onion thrips thrips tabaci (lindeman), and the two-spotted spider mite tetranychus urticae koch- were repeatedly offered in various n...