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Prevelence and causes of visual impairment and blindness in older adults in an area of India with a high cataract surgical rate.

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Living with presbyopia: experiences from a virtual roundtable dialogue among impacted individuals and healthcare professionals

open access: yesBMC Ophthalmology, 2022
Plain English summary The term presbyopia describes the difficulty to focus the eyes on things nearby, due to stiffening of the eye lens. The condition often considered something which worsens with increasing age.
Mile Brujic   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Blind Image Deblurring: a Review [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
This is a review on blind image deblurring. First, we formulate the blind image deblurring problem and explain why it is challenging. Next, we bring some psychological and cognitive studies on the way our human vision system deblurs. Then, relying on several previous reviews, we discuss the topic of metrics and datasets, which is non-trivial to blind ...
arxiv  

Change blindness: eradication of gestalt strategies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Arrays of eight, texture-defined rectangles were used as stimuli in a one-shot change blindness (CB) task where there was a 50% chance that one rectangle would change orientation between two successive presentations separated by an interval.
Goddard, Paul, Wilson, Steve
core   +1 more source

Brucella NyxA and NyxB dimerization enhances effector function during infection

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Brucella abortus thrives inside cells thanks to the translocation of effector proteins that fine‐tune cellular functions. NyxA and NyxB are two effectors that destabilize the nucleolar localization of their host target, SENP3. We show that the Nyx proteins directly interact with each other and that their dimerization is essential for their function ...
Lison Cancade‐Veyre   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The prevalence and causes of low vision and blindness amongst learners at the Akropong School for the Blind in Ghana

open access: yesAfrican Vision and Eye Health, 2021
Background: Low vision and blindness have significant implications, resulting in a generally reduced quality of life amongst the sufferers. Aim: To determine the prevalence and causes of low vision and blindness amongst learners at the Akropong School ...
Michael A. Kwarteng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differences in use and function of verbal irony between real and fictional discourse: (mis)interpretation and irony blindness [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Clinical applications of next‐generation sequencing‐based ctDNA analyses in breast cancer: defining treatment targets and dynamic changes during disease progression

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) offers a possibility for different applications in early and late stage breast cancer management. In early breast cancer tumor informed approaches are increasingly used for detecting molecular residual disease (MRD) and early recurrence. In advanced stage, ctDNA provides a possibility for monitoring disease progression and
Eva Valentina Klocker   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Color identification testing device [PDF]

open access: yes, 1970
Testing device, which determines ability of a technician to identify color-coded electric wires, is superior to standard color blindness tests.
Brawner, E. L., Martin, R., Pate, W.
core   +1 more source

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