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Overcoming plant blindness in science, education, and society
Plants, People, Planet, 2019 Societal Impact Statement Plants are amazing organisms. They make up around 80% of all biomass on Earth, play important roles in almost all ecosystems, and support humans and other animals by providing shelter, oxygen, and food. Despite this, many people
Sarah Jose, Chih-hang Wu, S. Kamoun
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Challenging behaviour in an adult male with congenital deaf-blindness: analysis and intervention
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009 People with severe congenital disabilities have been assessed on negatives, on what they do not have. Skill training and education of these missing abilities have been the major focus for the habilitation since emergence of the normalization ideology in ...
Karl Jacobsen +2 more
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Human Resources for Health, 2020 Background This study compares perspectives on specialized ophthalmic medical institutions, identifies the gaps in property and geographic offerings, and explores the ways that ophthalmic medical institutions can better allocate resources. The results of
Leilei Zhan +6 more
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The blind leading the blind [PDF]
BMJ, 2007 A key feature of the government9s new plan for reforming health care in London is “polyclinics” in which GPs and specialists work side by side. But Iona Heath argues that this will be to the detriment of primary care and that patients with complex needs will lose ...
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A fully organic retinal prosthesis restores vision in a rat model of degenerative blindness
Nature Materials, 2017 The degeneration of photoreceptors in the retina is one of the major causes of adult blindness in humans. Unfortunately, no effective clinical treatments exist for the majority of retinal degenerative disorders.
J. F. Maya-Vetencourt +21 more
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Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch [PDF]
, 2003 This article analyzes the connections between Lorde's representations of blindness in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, and its connection to lesbian ...
Sarah E. Chinn
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Development of a patient-derived xenograft model of glioblastoma via intravitreal injection in mice
Experimental and Molecular Medicine, 2019 Brain cancer: A clearer view of glioblastoma An improved strategy for cultivating patient-derived tumors in mice gives researchers a faster, more accurate means for testing glioblastoma treatments.
Jooyoung Lee +13 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Introduction: Pterygium is a common multifactorial external eye disease, which causes various ocular symptoms and negatively affects appearance. The aim of this study was to analyze the epidemiological characteristics and the change of surgical methods ...
Jingyi Wang +8 more
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, 2010 BACKGROUND: The cataract surgical rate (CSR) in Gujarat, India is reported to be above 10,000 per million population. This study was conducted to investigate the prevalence and causes of vision impairment/blindness among older adults in a high CSR area ...
Ellwein, Leon B +4 more
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Differences in use and function of verbal irony between real and fictional discourse: (mis)interpretation and irony blindness [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a contrastive approach to the presence of two distinct types of verbal irony in real (natural, unscripted) versus fictional (scripted) discourse, with a special focus on irony blindness, i.e.
Kapogianni, Eleni
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