Background Contemporary data for causes of vision impairment and blindness form an
important basis of recommendations in public health policies. Refreshment of the Global Vision …

OBJECTIVE To examine the global prevalence and major risk factors for diabetic retinopathy
(DR) and vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy (VTDR) among people with diabetes. …

Background Global and regional prevalence estimates for blindness and vision impairment
are important for the development of public health policies. We aimed to provide global …

… t h study for the j t h category of the varying covariate (eg, some studies may consist of >1
dataset within the same study, where j >1). For example, when ethnic group was specified as j, …

Purpose Myopia is a common cause of vision loss, with uncorrected myopia the leading
cause of distance vision impairment globally. Individual studies show variations in the …

For a decade, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program collected clinicopathologic
annotation data along with multi-platform molecular profiles of more than 11,000 human tumors …

Background Numerous population-based studies of age-related macular degeneration have
been reported around the world, with the results of some studies suggesting racial or ethnic …

… Similar results for the H and T dependence of junction resistance were observed. … and
T.M. Wong thanks MIT for the UROP fellowship. This research was supported by NSF Grant No.…

… This EM algorithm allows estimation of the parameters of the R k model, given a fixed
tree T and a substitution model S. ModelFinder then iteratively estimates branch lengths of T, …

We use a global climate model to compare the effectiveness of many climate forcing agents
for producing climate change. We find a substantial range in the “efficacy” of different forcings…