Purpose. To examine temporal patterns of visual acuity (VA) response to pooled 0.3 mg/0.5 mg ranibizumab treatment in patients with age-related macular degeneration and identify potential baseline predictors of response. Design. Retrospective analysis. Methods. Results from 1824 ranibizumab-treated patients receiving fixed monthly, quarterly, or as-needed dosing after three monthly loading dose...

abstract background and purpose:climate change has an important role on the health and productivity of the occupant of the building. the objective of this study is to estimate the effects of climate change on thermal comfort in hot and wet areas, as in the case of the city of douala. materials and methods:the general circulation model (csmk3 model, scenario b1) was adopted for this purpose.outd...

abstract in this study we have used the monthly data resulted from the calculation of temperature and precipitation for a 52-year period (1951-2003). the doubling effect of carbon dioxide ( ) on temperature and precipitation was modeled as the most important climatic parameters. the resulting hythergraph and ambrothermic models for tabriz indicate monthly increases of temperature and precipitat...

This paper presents an Artificial Intelligence approach for regional rainfall forecasting for Orissa state, India on monthly and seasonal time scales. The possible relation between regional rainfall over Orissa and the large scale climate indices like El-Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), EQUitorial INdian Ocean Oscillation (EQUINOO) and a local climate index of Ocean-Land Temperature Contrast (...

Better drought preparedness is critically needed in the Central American Dry Corridor (CADC). Seasonal forecasts can be used to build this but need localized evaluations ensure they are relevant and useful. This study provides a CADC-focused assessment of SEAS5 seasonal forecasting system produced by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). We evaluate predictions mean, varia...

The study investigated the role of climatic variables and irrigated agricultural on the seasonality of malaria transmission in New Halfa, eastern Sudan. A time-series analysis was performed using monthly climatic variables, monthly water available for irrigation of crops and monthly slide positive rate of malaria during the period 1986-2002. Cases of malaria were reported every month of the yea...

Using monthly forecast data from Consensus Economics Inc. for 18 developed countries reported over 24 different forecast horizons during 1989-2004, we found wide diversity in the quality of forecasts across countries, and the horizons at which forecasts start becoming useful. For only seven countries (viz., Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway and U.S.) the initial 24-month-ahead ...