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Visual Performance of Two Designs of Myopia Management Soft Contact Lenses Compared with a Monofocal One in Young Adults

open access: yesJournal of Ophthalmic & Vision Research, 2023
Purpose: To compare the visual performance of two distinct types of soft contact lenses (CL) aimed at slowing down myopia progression with the performance of a monofocal soft CL. Methods: In a prospective double-masked, crossover trial, 18 myopic adults (
Isabel Signes-Soler   +4 more
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Improving compliance: the focus of community prevention and control of hypertension

open access: yesShanghai yufang yixue, 2022
Hypertension is an important risk factor for the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Improving compliance is the key to the prevention and control of hypertension in community.
LU Xinyuan   +3 more
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Paratuberculosis control: a review with a focus on vaccination [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines, 2011
Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infection causes in ruminants a regional chronic enteritis that is increasingly being recognized as a significant problem affecting animal health, farming and the food industry due to the high prevalence of the disease and to recent research data strengthening the link between the pathogen and human ...
Bastida, Felix, Juste, Ramon A
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Focus of Attention in Coach Instructions for Technique Training in Sports: A Scrutinized Review of Review Studies

open access: yesJournal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 2023
Literature reports superior performance when focusing one’s attention during a movement on environmental effects of that movement (external focus, EF) compared to focusing on the moving body (internal focus, IF).
Inge Werner, Peter Federolf
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An Attention Based Focus Control System [PDF]

open access: yes2006 International Conference on Image Processing, 2006
Whilst the physical mechanism used by the eye to accommodate has been known since the mid 19th century, there have been few suggestions as to the method by which the human visual system controls the ciliary muscles. This paper proposes and explores an even function which, by building upon existing models of visual attention, could be used to model the ...
Robert Shilston, Fred Stentiford
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Why are people with high self-control happier? The effect of trait self-control on happiness as mediated by regulatory focus

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Background: While self-control has often been related to positive outcomes in life such as higher academic achievements and better health, recent insights reveal that people with high trait self-control (TSC) may even experience greater life satisfaction
Tracy T.L. Cheung   +3 more
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Pointing to One's Moving Hand: Putative Internal Models Do Not Contribute to Proprioceptive Acuity

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018
We can easily and without sight bring our fingertip to our nose, or swat a mosquito on our arm. These actions rely on proprioception, also known as kinesthesia, which classically has been attributed to processing of sensory inflow by the CNS.
Warren G. Darling   +3 more
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Sistemes de vigilància en instal·lacions interactives

open access: yesArtnodes, 2007
És un focus controlat per ordinador que apunta a persones en un espai públic. És un estudi interessant sobre com reaccionen les persones quan són el centre d'atenció.
Marie Sester
doaj   +1 more source

Behaviour adoption approaches during public health emergencies: implications for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2021
Human behaviour will continue to play an important role as the world grapples with public health threats. In this paper, we draw from the emerging evidence on behaviour adoption during diverse public health emergencies to develop a framework that ...
Avi J Hakim   +11 more
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Time-referenced effects of an internal vs. external focus of attention on muscular activity and compensatory variability

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2010
The paralysis-by-analysis phenomenon, i.e., attending to the execution of one’s movement impairs performance, has gathered a lot of attention over recent years (see Wulf, 2007, for a review).
Ernst-Joachim eHossner   +1 more
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