AIM To develop a customised, portable, cost-effective (logarithmic minimal angle resolution) LogMAR chart with adjustable illumination for use as a mass vision-screening device in the rural population. MATERIALS AND METHODS Visual acuity of 100 individuals was evaluated with a customised chart and compared with the standard Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) chart and Snellen'...

In the past few years, there has been an increasing interest in developing project control systems. The primary purpose of such systems is to indicate whether the actual performance is consistent with the baseline and to produce a signal in the case of non-compliance. Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in monitoring project’s performance indicators, by plotting them on the S...

Background and objectives: Risk-adjusted Bernoulli control chart is one of the main tools for monitoring multistage healthcare processes to achieve higher performance and effectiveness in healthcare settings. Using parameter estimates can lead to significantly deteriorate chart performance. However, so far, the effect of estimation error on this chart in which healthcare ...

We report the incidence of lacrimal passage impairment and specific features of corneal epitheliopathy as adverse effects of the oral anticancer drug S-1, and examine the relationship between the two pathologies. We conducted a retrospective chart review of 84 patients prescribed the anticancer drug S-1. The incidence of lacrimal passage impairment and corneal epitheliopathy was 8% and 6%, resp...

We developed a multivariate moving average control chart to monitor the mean vector of a multivariate process in this study. The proposed chart is based on Hotelling’s 2 T statistic. A simulation study is conducted to evaluate the average run length performance of the proposed chart. The proposed chart performs better than Hotelling’s 2 T chart, 2 T chart with runs rules and the synthetic 2 T c...

This paper sets out to discuss ongoing activities in the tide and chart datum components of hydrography and charting. It expands on the paper presented at FIG (Fédération Internationale des Géomètres) in Brighton 1998 by Mr Matt Higgins and is a revised and updated version of the paper Chart Datum for Hydrography by GPS delivered by the present authors to the Survey 99 Congress, Sunshine Coast,...