background: in chile, a new law introduced in march 2012 lowered the blood alcohol concentration (bac) limit for impaired drivers from 0.1% to 0.08% and the bac limit for driving under the influence of alcohol from 0.05% to 0.03%, but its effectiveness remains uncertain. the goal of this investigation was to evaluate the effects of this enactment on road traffic injuries and fatalities in chile...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effects of bimatoprost 0.03% single treatment for 3 years on intraocular pressure (IOP) and visual field performance. METHODS We monitored the IOP of 62 patients with normal-tension glaucoma every 1-3 months. The Humphrey visual field test was performed every 6 months after treatment and the results obtained were compared to those before treatment. In addition, visual ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of topical nipradilol monotherapy for 5 years on intraocular pressure, visual field performance, and optic disk topography. METHODS Thirty patients with normal tension glaucoma were monitored for intraocular pressure every 1-3 months. A Humphrey visual field test and measurement of optic disk configuration using the Heidelberg r...

Physical characteristics of different features in desert is a reflection of severe thermal and climatic conditions. In this paper, diurnal surface temperature patterns of important surface features in Lut Desert were studied and the relationship among different surfaces analyzed. Diurnal trend in surface temperature of surface types, marl, dark sand, light sand, salt-affected soil, soul at 10 c...

The problem of variance estimation for a t ime series with linear trend is studied using model based procedures. The work done by Royall and Cumberland ((2), (3)) is refined and adapted to the special problems of the Current Employment Survey (790 Survey) at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A variety of variance estimation techniques are examined; including a variation of jackknife estimation an...

A new systematic sampling design called “Modified Systematic Sampling (MSS)”, proposed by [2] is more general than Linear Systematic Sampling (LSS) and Circular Systematic Sampling (CSS). In the present paper, this scheme is further extended for populations having a linear trend. Expressions for mean and variance of sample mean are obtained for the population having perfect linear trend among p...

We propose a method to detect the onset of linear trend in a time series and estimate the change point T from the profile of a linear trend test statistic, computed on consecutive overlapping time windows along the time series. We compare our method to two standard methods for trend change detection and evaluate them with Monte Carlo simulations for different time series lengths, autocorrelatio...

Although linear trend removing has often been implemented as a routine preprocessing step in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI) data analysis, the spatial distribution of the magnitude of linear trend is still unclear. Further, it is interesting whether there will be any difference of the linear trend magnitude between different resting-states. For the first aim, we a...