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Giraffes make comeback.(News)
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Byline: Todd Pitman Associated Press
KOURE, Niger u A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.
The tallest animals on earth are here, the guide says, somewhere amid the scant green bush on one side and the thatched dome villages on the other.
TheyAEre here, but by all accounts, they shouldnAEt be.
A hundred years ago, West AfricaAEs last giraffes numbered in the thousands and their habitat stretched from SenegalAEs Atlantic Ocean ...
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Aberration-free IOL offers superior optical performance
Magazine article from: Ophthalmology Times
; ...decentered by 0.5 to 1 mm, the aberration-free lens outperformed the modified...views because non-axisymmetrical aberrations, such as coma and astigmatism...no splaying of the curve with an aberration-free IOL because it is immune...
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Negative spherical aberration after CK is desirable
Magazine article from: Ophthalmology Times
; ...Greater degree of negative spherical aberration seen with great number of spots applied San Diego-Inducing negative spherical aberration may be desirable after conductive keratoplasty...that patients with negative spherical aberration after CK met the target refractive error...
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New aspheric IOL designed to avoid inducing aberrations
Magazine article from: Ophthalmology Times
; ...spherical aberrations rather than...spherical aberration of the cornea...internal aberrations, the investigators...spherical aberration, the AO...spherical aberration Z4 (4...internal aberrations were high...
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New method for presenting ocular aberrations more user-friendly
Magazine article from: Ophthalmology Times
; ...higher-order aberration, to illustrate...different aberrations can have different...describing aberrations, noted that...spherical aberration represent...of only one aberration in isolation...Clinically, aberrations can exist...
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Larger optical zone minimizes higher-order aberrations
Magazine article from: Ophthalmology Times
; ...to minimize total higher-order aberrations after LASIK, said Barrie D. Soloway...evaluated the higher-order aberration profiles of spherical and spherocylindrical...spherocylindrical treatments, higher-order aberrations decreased with increasing optical...
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Wavefront analysis measures higher-order eye aberrations
Magazine article from: Ophthalmology Times
; ...The second, the aberration map, has subtracted...the higher-order aberrations. The system also displays...called the Optical Aberration Index (OAI), so...the AcuityMap, the aberration map, and the patient...effects of higher-order aberrations on visual function...
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Increasing scan diameter dramatically affects higher-order aberration measurements
Magazine article from: Ophthalmology Times
; ...values for higher-order aberrations. "Therefore, we conclude...ultimately treat wavefront aberration over the largest pupil diameter...subsequently to treat many aberrations-including spherical aberration that can have an important...
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Design selection and classification for Hadamard matrices using generalized minimum aberration criteria.
Magazine article from: Technometrics
; ...two criteria of generalized minimum aberration for general two-level fractional factorial...further studied by linking generalized aberration with the criteria of efficiency and...Our studies reveal that generalized aberration performs quite well under these familiar...
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Higher-order aberration interactions with customized ablations need to be neutralized
Magazine article from: Ophthalmology Times
; ...to have thirdorder aberrations or more positive spherical aberration preoperatively...MacRae showed that the aberration interaction also goes...preoperative spherical aberration as well as third-order aberrations affecting sphere...
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SIRAC: Supervised Identification of Regions of Aberration in aCGH datasets.(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Bioinformatics
; ...for the common aberrations between the samples...chromosomal regions of aberration is a task in itself...that carry the aberration [6, 8, 14...15] require the aberrations to be present in...when computing the aberration frequency across...phase also the aberrations common to more...
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