A mean shortening of 0.25 0.33mm has been reported between applanation and immersion axial length measurements, which can translate into an error of IOL power by approximately 1 D . In general, immersion biometry has been shown to be more accurate than contact applanation biometry in several studies.
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After joining the institutes of health in 1960, he was chief of the perinatal branch from 1960 to 1973 and headed the contraceptive evaluation branch from then until 1979 . He successively held top positions in contraceptive evaluation, the epidemiology and biometry research program and, until last year, the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research.
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A study on the effects of refrigeration on the biometry and development of " Protophormia terraenovae " shows that 10 days of refrigeration induced a decrease of the total developmental time of 56 and 18 hours for L1 [ first stage larvae ] and pre-pupae and an increase of 15 hours for L2 [ second stage larvae ] .
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In an editorial in the same issue of JAMA, neuroepidemiologist Lenore Launer, of the NIA's Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, points out that the individuals participating in this study met specific criteria and the outcome could be different, and possibly beneficial, in another group of people with AD or in those at risk for the disease.
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After the two students had left the hotel, Haldane went on his much-publicized hunger strike to protest what he regarded as a " U . S . insult . " When the director of the ISI, P . C . Mahalanobis, confronted Haldane about both the hunger strike and the unbudgeted banquet; Haldane resigned from his post, in February 1961, and moved to a newly established biometry unit in Odisha.
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This unusual combination of disciplines was put to use when he arrived at Johns Hopkins University in 1918, where he organized the Department of Biometry and Vital Statistics at the School of Hygiene and Public Health ( now the Bloomberg School of Public Health ) and was credited with coining the term biostatistics . He became chair of that department in 1925 and, in 1947, was named vice president in charge of medical activities.
