Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism: Gender as a Category of Analysis [PDF]
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 2021 Gender is rarely considered in the works on state socialism in Czech history writing. Given the prominence of the equality of the sexes in communist rhetoric and the heated anti- and pro-feminism media and intellectual debates of the 1990s, the omission stands out as a remarkable loss of opportunity in historical research. It also defies logic. For if
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020 Glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness, can be prevented or stabilized the progression if identified early and managed it appropriately. In India, around 12 million people suffer from glaucoma, and 1.5 million are blind due to it, so making ...
Suraj Singh Senjam
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Blindness incidence in Germany - A population-based study from Württemberg-Hohenzollern [PDF]
, 1999 Few data on the incidence of blindness in Germany are available. We analysed causes of legal blindness for the region Württemberg-Hohenzollern (population 5.5 million) in order to help fill in this gap.
Klauss, V. +4 more
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Faces do not capture special attention in children with autism spectrum disorder: a change blindness study [PDF]
, 2009 Two experiments investigated attention of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to faces and objects. In both experiments, children (7- to 15-year-olds) detected the difference between 2 visual scenes.
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VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF CHANGES IN THE INDUCEMENT OF CHANGE BLINDNESS
Studia Psychologica, 2013 Change blindness represents extreme difficulty in detecting changes in the visual field induced by brief blank screen interjected in between two alternating images. In the process of searching for a change, visual saliency certainly plays an important role in attracting attention (i.e., pop-out effect). In our study, we were interested in whether there
Porubanová-Norquist, M. +1 more
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Etiology of permanent visual impairment among persons attending a disability board in Central Kerala
Kerala Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 Introduction: Permanent visual handicap is one of the most troublesome disabilities to affect an individual, a family, and a society. Objectives: To determine the important etiological factors leading to permanent visual impairment (VI) in Kerala and ...
Sinumol Sukumaran +3 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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Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2019 Purpose: To analyze applications for blindness certificates to find causes of visual impairment (VI), handicap, and blindness in a tertiary hospital of Bihar. Methods: Applications for blindness certificates were analyzed over a two-year period. The main
Anita Ambastha +4 more
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Drugs associated with cataract formation represent an unmet need in cataract research
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 Decreased light transmittance through the ocular lens, termed cataract, is a leading cause of low vision and blindness worldwide. Cataract causes significantly decreased quality of life, particularly in the elderly.
Jack Carlson +4 more
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Prevalence of age-related macular degeneration in Nakuru, Kenya: a cross-sectional population-based study. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Diseases of the posterior segment of the eye, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), have recently been recognised as the leading or second leading cause of blindness in several African countries.
Bastawrous, Andrew +5 more
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