| Parameters of the model11 | Low risk (emmetropes) | High risk (myopes) | |
| Accommodation gain (Ag) | 10 | 3 | |
| Vergence gain (Vg) | 150 | 150 | |
| Accommodative convergence per unit of accommodation (AC/A ratio,AC) | 0.8 | 1.2 | Metre angles per dioptre |
| Convergence accommodation per unit of convergence (CA/C ratio, CA) | 0.37 | 0.2 | Dioptres per metre angle |
| Tonic accommodation (At) | 0.61 | 0.25 | Dioptres |
| Tonic vergence (phoria, Vt) | 0.29 | 2 | Metre angles |
| Emmetropisation gain (Eg) | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Tnear/Tfar | 80/20 | 80/20 | % |
| As/Vs (white paper) | 3.0/3.0 | 3.0/3.0 | Dioptres/metre angle |
| As/Vs (long wave absorbing paper) | 2.5/3.0 | 2.5/3.0 | Dioptres/metre angle |
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Use of paper selectively absorbing long wavelengths to reduce the impact of educational near work on human refractive development
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