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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a collection of short prose stories written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published by Dent on 4 April 1940. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first paperback copy appeared in 1948, published by the British Publishers Guild.
Leader Dogs for the Blind is a guide dog training organization located in Rochester Hills, Michigan.It was founded in 1939 by Lions Club members Charles Nutting, Don Schuur and S.A. Dodge, [1] as the second guide dog organization founded in the United States and has paired over 14,500 dogs with the visually impaired worldwide, making it one of the largest organizations of its kind.
The Prentice position. The Prentice position is an orientation of a prism, used in optics, optometry and ophthalmology. [1] In this position, named after the optician Charles F. Prentice, the prism is oriented such that light enters it at an angle of 90° to the first surface, so that the beam does not refract at that surface.
An ideal trial frame have minimum 3 cells, one each for holding spherical lens, cylindrical lens and other tools like occluder or pinhole. [4] Angle for axis of astigmatism is marked on outermost visible cell There are knobes to adjust pupillary distance, side angle, height and cylindrical lens axis. [5]
Primary glaucomas occur in the absence of other eye disease, and are therefore presumed to be genetic in origin. [1] The most common type of glaucoma in dogs is primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG). [1] The least common type of glaucoma in dogs is primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), although this is the most common type that affects humans. [1]
Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis (May 30, 1886 – September 8, 1946) was an American dog breeder and philanthropist, who founded The Seeing Eye, the first dog guide school for the blind in the United States. [1] She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2011. [2]
Everything Falls Apart is a song by American band Dog's Eye View, written by lead vocalist Peter Stuart. The song is the lead single from Dog's Eye View's debut album, Happy Nowhere, released in January 1996 by Columbia Records. It received considerable airplay on radio, MTV and VH1, [1] reaching the top 40 on multiple US Billboard charts ...
In this type of sampling, the prism is held a comfortable distance away from the eye with the bottom edge parallel to the ground, and trees are sighted through the prism approximately 4.5 ft. above the ground. A tree is an "in" tree if the offset section of the tree overlaps the bole as viewed without the prism (Figure 1).