METHODS. There were 59 subjects enrolled in this study. The OK group comprised 29 subjects who matched the inclusion criteria for OK. The control group comprised 30 subjects who also matched the inclusion criteria for OK, but preferred spectacles for myopia correction. Axial length was measured periodically for 5 years using an IOLMaster device, and the time course of changes was evaluated and ...

Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of OK-432 immunotherapy in the treatment of lymphatic malformation (LM) in children and to determine its complications and contraindications. Methods: Twenty-eight patients with LM of head and neck were enrolled. Twenty-three (82.2%) patients were treated with OK-432 immunotherapy, and surgery was performed in 5 (17.8%). LMs were classified...

Spatially continuous data of environmental variables are often required for environmental sciences and management. However, information for environmental variables is usually collected by point sampling, particularly for the mountainous region and deep ocean area. Thus, methods generating such spatially continuous data by using point samples become essential tools. Spatial interpolation methods...

The IsoMAP uses the multiple linear regression and geostatistical methods to analyze isotope data. Suppose the response variable Y (s) and the vector of independent variable x(s) are observed at a finite number of sites s1, · · · , sn. The multiple linear regression method assumes Y (s) and Y (s′) are independent but the geostatistical method assume they are not. In the following, we will first...

Keeping the water table at a favorable level is quite significant for a sustainable management of groundwater plans. Various management measures need to know the spatial and temporal behavior of groundwater. Therefore, the measurement of groundwater levels are generally carried out at spatially random locations in the field; whereas, most of the groundwater models requires these measurement at ...

PURPOSE This prospective study was conducted to assess the influence of overnight orthokeratology (OK) on axial elongation in children, with those wearing spectacles as controls. METHODS One hundred five subjects (210 eyes) were enrolled in the study. The OK group comprised 45 patients (90 eyes, age 12.1 ± 2.5 years, mean ± SD; OK group) who matched the inclusion criteria for OK. The control ...

One of the most challenging aspects multivariate geostatistics is dealing with complex relationships between variables. Geostatistical co-simulation and spatial decorrelation methods, commonly used for modelling multiple variables, are ineffective in presence complexities. On other hand, multi-Gaussian transforms designed to deal relationships, such as non-linearity, heteroscedasticity geologic...

The assessment of groundwater irrigation using robust tools is essential for the sustenance agro-environment in arid and semi-arid regions. This study presents a reliable method consisting combination multivariate analysis geostatistical modeling to assess resources Western Middle Cheliff (Algeria). For this goal, mean data from 87 wells collected during April July 2017 were used. hierarchical ...