To assess the prevalence of sports eye injuries in our area a register was kept over the 18 months from October 1982 to March 1984. Squash, association football, badminton, and tennis were the main offenders. The severest injury was from a golf ball, involving a fractured zygoma. There was one retinal dialysis, and one lens dislocation requiring extraction. Spectacles were broken in six cases a...

From the Department of Ophthalmology, New York University Medical Center, New York, N. Y. This study was supported by National Institutes of Health grant EY-00309 from the National Eye Institute, and in part by a grant from the Eye Surgery Fund, Inc., and an unrestricted grant to the Department of Ophthalmology from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc. Submitted for publication March 25, 1982. R...

We have investigated the use of a "split-sinc" RF pulse to selectively store magnetization from a selected region of a sample, for later recall in imaging or spectroscopy experiments. The pulse sequence is based on an original suggestion by Post et al. (West German Patent No. P3209263.6, 13 March 1982), later implemented by Aue et al. (J. Magn. Reson. 56, 350 (1984)). We have carried out detail...

Note In line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Defra aims to place the results of its completed research projects in the public domain wherever possible. The SID 5 (Research Project Final Report) is designed to capture the information on the results and outputs of Defra-funded research in a format that is easily publishable through the Defra website. A SID 5 must be completed for all pr...

A precise determination of direct and indirect costs of implementing the Freedom of Information Act is not possible because agencies generally lack detailed supporting records. Costs of over $61 million were identified mainly from agencies’ 1981 annual reports. The reports vary widely in the ways costs are categorized and measured but provide an indicator of total cost. Inquiries at four agenci...

This article addresses the U.S. Supreme Court's central purpose formulation in Reporters Committee v. Department of Justice under the federal Freedom of Information Act. By examining all lower federal court opinions interpreting Reporters Committee and by analyzing the effects of the Court's opinion on the implementation of the FOIA, the paper finds that the Court's opinion has greatly narrowed...