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Randomized Clinical Trial on the Efficacy and Side Effects of Tropicamide and Phenylephrine in Mydriasis for Ophthalmoscopy

open access: yesJournal of Optometry, 2010
Purpose: To compare the efficacy and side effects of two combinations of tropicamide and phenylephrine as mydriatics for ophthalmoscopy. Methods: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 51 Chinese outpatients were randomized to receive topical ...
Philip T.H. Lam   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parental Understandings of ‘Stranger Danger’: Balancing Fear of Victimisation by Strangers Against Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Children

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades, children have been taught about ‘stranger danger’. Fear of the stranger has been associated with overly cautious parenting strategies, and the curtailing of freedoms as children transition to adolescents. This article aims to examine the extent to which parents consider this issue of stranger danger in their decisions to grant ...
Craig Collie
wiley   +1 more source

Visual comfort assessment of daylit and sunlit areas: A longitudinal field survey in classrooms in Kashan, Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Visual comfort in schools enhances not only health and wellbeing, but also satisfaction and therefore learning and visual performance. This research aims at testing students’ evaluations on visual comfort through questionnaires in daylit and non-daylit ...
Korsavi, Sepideh S.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Optimization Control Strategy for Transition Season Blinds Balancing Daylighting, Thermal Discomfort, and Energy Efficiency

open access: yesEnergies
Natural lighting in office buildings is often affected by excessive solar heat gain and discomfort glare, and the transitional seasons are no exception.
Guipan Wang, Ying Yu, Chenfei Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Gestational Melatonin Supplementation Attenuates Maternal Sleep Deprivation‐Induced Steatohepatitis Susceptibility in Offspring

open access: yesCell Proliferation, EarlyView.
Maternal SD during pregnancy enhances the development of diet‐induced NASH in adult offspring of both sexes through an NR4A3‐dependent mechanism, characterised by heightened inflammation and increased apoptosis. Maternal melatonin supplementation effectively alleviates this increased susceptibility to NASH in offspring.
Fei Guo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing neural networks to investigate relationships between lighting quality and lighting glare indices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The present work compares the ability of the two most used glare indices, the Daylight Glare Probability (DGP) and the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) Glare Index (CGI), using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Artificial Neural ...
Mohamed Yacine, Saadi   +4 more
core   +1 more source

A Wider View: Amie Siegel's Panorama and the Role of Contemporary Art in Natural History Museum Critique and Practice

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Panorama, artist Amie Siegel montaged films made by Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) staff in the 1930s–1970s when documenting their research expeditions and exhibition projects, along with her own footage shot in the museum. Displayed at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2023–2024, the exhibition made visible the often hidden labors of ...
Deirdre Madeleine Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Vision and Reading Difficulties Part 4: Coloured filters - how do they work? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article is the fourth in a series of five about vision and reading difficulties. The first article provided a general overview and the second covered conventional optometric correlates of reading difficulties (e.g. binocular vision problems).
Allen, Peter M   +2 more
core  

On site challenges for the construction of 16-storey condominium: as observed by a young civil engineering technologist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The difference between an engineer and an engineering technologist is that, an engineer would mainly focus and produce structural designs based on engineering calculations, while the job of an engineering technologist is to execute the design in the real
Chan, C. M.   +2 more
core  

The Place for Form in Wollheim's Lectures on Formalism and Pictorial Organization

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract At the time of his death, Richard Wollheim was writing a short book on Formalism and Pictorial Organization. Much of it, but by no means all of it, had been published before (it has come out posthumously in its entirety in late 2025). Here I do two things. First, I have provided a rather detailed exegesis concentrating on the parts of the book
Gary Kemp
wiley   +1 more source

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