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What is the Zanzibari craftswomen's experience on eyeglass use, business challenges and solutions? Participatory action research using solicited diaries and listening workshop narratives. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Objective To present older presbyopic Zanzibari craftswomen’s firsthand experiences with the eyeglasses, the challenges they face in advancing their businesses and proposed solutions to these challenges.Design This participatory action research used ...
Omar F, Pillai BS, Othman OJ, Holland E, Mashayo E, Shah K, Graham R, Graham C, Chan VF.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The use of audiovisual distraction eyeglasses as a resource in Pediatric dental care: a case series

RGO: Revista Gaúcha de Odontologia, 2019
Objective: This study aimed to report a case series on the use of audiovisual distraction eyeglasses in children during dental care. Methods: The influence of the distraction tool on the children’s heart rate frequency and dental care experience was ...
Ítalo Bruno Silveira ALVES, Ana Flávia GRANVILLE-GARCIA, Ramon Targino FIRMINO, Monalisa Cesarino GOMES, Edja Maria Melo de Brito COSTA   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Chinese eye exercises on change in visual acuity and eyeglasses wear among school-aged children in rural China: a propensity-score-matched cohort study

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2020
Background Daily “eye exercises,” massaging of periocular acupuncture pressure points, have been part of China’s national vision care policy in schools for some 50 years.
Huan Wang, Yiwei Qian, Nathan Congdon, Matthew Boswell, Scott Rozelle, Xiaochen Ma   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Explainable Attention Zone Estimation for Level 3 Autonomous Driving

IEEE Access, 2023
Accurately assessing the driver’s situational awareness is crucial in level 3 ( $L_{3}$ ) autonomous driving, where the driver is in the loop.
Roksana Yahyaabadi, Soodeh Nikan
doaj   +1 more source

Safety of eyeglasses wear for visual acuity among middle school students in northwestern rural China: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open Ophthalmology, 2020
Objective To assess the effect of free eyeglasses provision on visual acuity among middle school students in northwestern rural China.Methods and analysis Among 31 middle schools randomly selected from 47 middle schools in northwestern rural China ...
Nathan Congdon, Scott Rozelle, Xiaochen Ma, Ming Zhou, Xinwu Zhang, Yue Ma, Haoyang Li, Dimitris Friesen, Xiaopeng Pang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Perception of Spectacles Use Among the General Population in Ha’il Region, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Clinical Ophthalmology, 2023
Nawaf Osaywid Alrashidi,1 Wafy Abdulrahman Albrak,1 Shaker Osaywid Alreshidi,2 Lama Abdulrahman Alaradi,3 Hatim Adam Nagi Adam,3 Naif Mamdouh Alali,4 Faris Hashem,4 Hani Basher Albalawi,4 Ahmed Yousef Alothman,5 Shaima Sulaiman Alharbi2 1College of ...
Alrashidi NO, Albrak WA, Alreshidi SO, Alaradi LA, Nagi Adam HA, Alali NM, Hashem F, Albalawi HB, Alothman AY, Alharbi SS   +9 more
doaj  

A Brief History of Early Silica Glass: Impact on Science and Society

Substantia, 2019
Silicon in the form of silica is the basis of common glass and its uses predate recorded history. The production of synthetic glass, however, is thought to date back to no earlier than 3000 BCE.
Seth C Rasmussen
doaj   +1 more source

Eyeglasses and risk of COVID-19 transmission—analysis of the Virus Watch Community Cohort study

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Objectives: The importance of SARS-CoV-2 transmission via the eyes is unknown, with previous studies mainly focusing on protective eyewear in healthcare settings.
Annalan M.D. Navaratnam, Christopher O'Callaghan, Sarah Beale, Vincent Nguyen, Anna Aryee, Isobel Braithwaite, Thomas E. Byrne, Wing Lam Erica Fong, Ellen Fragaszy, Cyril Geismar, Susan Hoskins, Jana Kovar, Parth Patel, Madhumita Shrotri, Sophie Weber, Alexei Yavlinsky, Robert W. Aldridge, Andrew C. Hayward, Susan Michie, Pia Hardelid, Linda Wijlaars, Eleni Nastouli, Moira Spyer, Ben Killingley, Ingemar Cox, Vasileios Lampos, Rachel A. McKendry, Tao Cheng, Yunzhe Liu, Jo Gibbs, Richard Gilson, Alison Rogers, Anne M. Johnson   +32 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advanced cancer patients in a randomized clinical trial of night-simulating eyeglasses observed to have a normal 24-h circadian rhythm during chemotherapy

SAGE Open Medicine, 2022
Objectives: Cancer patients routinely exhibit dysfunctional circadian organization. Indeed, a dysfunctional circadian organization is a hallmark of advanced cancer. A cohort of advanced cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy was recruited to investigate
Keith I Block, Charlotte Gyllenhaal, James F Grutsch, Penny B Block, Thomas Kazlausky, David Blask, Edward Carome, Justin Reynolds, Dinah Faith Q Huff, William Hrushesky   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Pre‐Technologies’ and the Lifeworld: Assistive Technologies as ‘Pre‐Technologies’ for Self‐Formation as Freedom

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
wiley   +1 more source