Evaluation of mid-term stability of night vision tests

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 565-568

  Levy, Y ^a   Glovinsky, Y ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MYOPIA; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; VISION TESTS; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 0030967329     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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