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Prevalence of Myopia in Taiwanese Schoolchildren: 1983 to 2000
, 2009 Introduction: To determine time trends in myopia over a 20- year period in Taiwan, we conducted 5 nationwide surveys pertaining to the ocular refraction of schoolchildren in 1983, 1986,1990,1995 and 2000.
林隆光;施永豐;蕭朱杏;陳建仁 +1 more
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Myopia Morbidity Of The Adult Population Of Azerbaijan
, 2013 The analysis of dynamics of morbidity due to myopia of the adult population of Azerbaijan has been conducted.
R.B. Aghayeva
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract The expansion of Nairobi's real estate frontier into its peri‐urban hinterlands creates new opportunities and new dilemmas for smallholder families whose land is skyrocketing in value. Instead of taking the opportunity to become urban rentiers, many smallholders across Nairobi's peripheries are selling their inherited ‘ancestral’ plots in ...
Peter Lockwood +2 more
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Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bank regulators use peer information for bank evaluations and publicly disclose this information. This study investigates whether the regulatory use and disclosure of peer information induce herding behavior in banks' regulatory capital ratios.
MINJAE KIM
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Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi
Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina +4 more
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Insurance and the Challenge of Governing Risks Beyond National Limits
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Even as the legitimacy of states appears to derive ever more explicitly from nationalist claims, nation‐states and national economies remain deeply entangled. In the face of border‐spanning risks, governments face both rising pressures for self‐centered policies and demands for more extensive transnational collaboration.
Louis W. Pauly
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Late results of scleroplasty in surgical treatment of progressive myopia
Scleroplasty may be used in progressive myopia to reinforce the posterior pole of the eye. Technically, and by the results obtained, the operation is simpler and more effective than similar interventions described in the literature.
Belyaev V.S., Ilyina T.S.
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Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Accountants must master a considerable body of highly complex knowledge to attain the level of professional proficiency required to comply with accounting standards and uphold their public responsibility. Postsecondary education and professional certification bodies provide only a portion of the technical knowledge that accountants need to ...
Leslie Berger +2 more
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Amplitudo of accommodation in the many types of myopia
, 2015 Background: It has been discussed among ophthalmologists whether myopia is caused by environmental factors or hereditary. One of the environmental factors is the demand of work requiring frequent and close inspection with the eyes.
Nugraha Wahyu Cahyana, Nugraha Wahyu Cahyana
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper studies how the accuracy of a short‐term performance measure affects its value when a principal decides whether to retain or fire an agent, who can manipulate that measure. Compared with ignoring performance and never firing the agent, the performance measure is valuable when the savings in the expected cost of the retention error ...
Naomi Rothenberg
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