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  2. Effects of long-term contact lens wear on the cornea - Wikipedia

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    Long-term contact lens use can lead to alterations in corneal thickness, stromal thickness, curvature, corneal sensitivity, cell density, and epithelial oxygen uptake, etc. Other changes may include the formation of epithelial vacuoles and microcysts (containing cellular debris) as well as the emergence of polymegethism in the corneal endothelium.

  3. Health effects of sunlight exposure - Wikipedia

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    Health effects of sunlight exposure. Exposing skin to the ultraviolet radiation in sunlight has both positive and negative health effects. On the positive side, exposure allows for the synthesis of vitamin D 3. Vitamin D has been suggested as having a wide range of positive health effects, which include strengthening bones [ 1] and possibly ...

  4. It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling - Wikipedia

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    It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling. It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling was a BBC television situation comedy which ran for a single series of six episodes in November–December 1971, after a pilot in April 1971. It was written by Jilly Cooper and Christopher Bond, and was about four posh young women sharing a flat in London.

  5. List of characters in the Breaking Bad franchise - Wikipedia

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    This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. (April 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Breaking Bad is a neo-Western crime drama franchise created by American filmmaker Vince Gilligan, primarily based on the television series Breaking Bad ...

  6. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Soulfly used this tuning on "Eye for an Eye" on their self-titled album, although live performances of this song are now in A standard. Drop F ♯ /Drop G ♭ – F ♯-C ♯-f ♯-B-D ♯-G ♯ / G ♭-D ♭-g ♭-B-E ♭-A ♭ Four full steps down from Drop D, or two full steps up from Drop D1.

  7. Active Denial System - Wikipedia

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    The Active Denial System ( ADS) is a non-lethal directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military, [ 2] designed for area denial, perimeter security and crowd control. [ 3] Informally, the weapon is also called the heat ray[ 4] since it works by heating the surface of targets, such as the skin of targeted human beings.

  8. Occam's razor - Wikipedia

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    Occam's razor. In philosophy, Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: novacula Occami) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony ( Latin: lex parsimoniae ).

  9. Layer of rods and cones - Wikipedia

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    The elements composing the layer of rods and cones ( Jacob's membrane) in the retina of the eye are of two kinds, rod cells and cone cells, the former being much more numerous than the latter except in the macula lutea . Jacob's membrane is named after Irish ophthalmologist Arthur Jacob, who was the first to describe this nervous layer of the ...