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RESUTTS<br />

30<br />

Data Clean<strong>in</strong>g 30<br />

Description <strong>of</strong> anthropometric and associated variabres 31<br />

Àssociation <strong>of</strong> Socio-Economic and HeaIth Variables With<br />

Ànthropometric Indicators . 38<br />

5.<br />

6.<br />

DI SCUSSi ON<br />

CONCTUSION<br />

48<br />

54<br />

PÀRT II -- Modification <strong>of</strong> Thornton's (977 ) ¡ark Adaptation Test and<br />

Measure<strong>ment</strong> <strong>of</strong> Dark Adaptation<br />

Chapter<br />

pêqe<br />

7. INTRODUCTION 58<br />

8. REVIEW OF TITERATURE 60<br />

a<br />

Biochemical and Physiological Basis <strong>of</strong> Ðark Àdaptation<br />

Test i ng<br />

Dark Àdaptation Test<strong>in</strong>g<br />

The Classical Dark Adaptation Test<br />

Rapid Dark Àdaptation Test (np¡r)<br />

Use <strong>of</strong> Dark Adaptation Tests for Àdults<br />

Rapid Dark Àdaptation Test for use with children<br />

MÀTERIÀLS AND METHODS<br />

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76<br />

Hypo<strong>the</strong>ses . 76<br />

Design , 76<br />

Procedures or Methods 79<br />

Experi<strong>ment</strong> I . 79<br />

Experi<strong>ment</strong> Ii<br />

Experi<strong>ment</strong> III<br />

Experi<strong>ment</strong> IV<br />

10. RESULTS ÀND DISCUSSION<br />

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g2<br />

g2<br />

Experi<strong>ment</strong> I: Comparison <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Rapid Dark Adaptation<br />

Test (Thornton, 1977 ) and a '1O-Second fest<br />

The Rapid Dark Àdaptation Test (Thornton , 1977 RDAT)<br />

The 1 0-Second Test<br />

Experi<strong>ment</strong> II: Application <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Multiple Ðecision<br />

Procedure <strong>in</strong> adult subjects.<br />

Experi<strong>ment</strong> III: Application <strong>of</strong> Thornton's Rapid Dark<br />

Àdaptation Test and <strong>the</strong> 1O-Second Test to 7-10<br />

Year-old Children<br />

Experi<strong>ment</strong> IV: Àpplication <strong>of</strong> a 1O-Second Test <strong>in</strong><br />

children under <strong>the</strong> age <strong>of</strong> five<br />

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11, coNcrusr0N . 104<br />

PÀRTI-BIBIIOGRAPHY..<br />

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