Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of four different filters on contrast sensitivity under photopic and mesopic conditions with and without glare.Methods: A forced choice algorithm in a Bayesian psychophysical procedure was utilized to evaluate the spatial luminance contrast sensitivity.Five different spatial frequencies were
Khadigeh Mirzaii NajmabadiShahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, IranObjectives: The purpose of this study GORSE is to determine the effect of a multimodal intervention (including the Women’s Wellness Program) on increasing levels of physical activity in Iranian midlife women.Study design: This 12-week study was conducted in w
Lapa Nova is a dolomitic cave about 4.5 km long located in northwestern Minas Gerais state, Brazil.The cave experiences intense tourism, concentrated over a single period of the year, during the Feast of Our Lady of Lapa.In order to evaluate the impacts felt by the invertebrate community from this tourism, a new methodology was proposed.Four types
In systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), perturbed immunoregulation underpins a pathogenic imbalance between regulatory and effector CD4+ T-cell activity.However, to date, the characterization of the CD4+ regulatory T cell (Treg) compartment in SLE has yielded conflicting results.Here we show Plastic Car that patients have an increased frequency of C
During the last 20 years, fast urbanization activities have been highly concentrated in just few countries (e.g., China, India, and Nigeria) and have led to the emergence of large urban aggregations, with high population density.Still, very few researches have focused on this dynamic phenomenon with a global perspective using multisource Lithium Ca