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Predicting participation of people with impaired vision in epidemiological studies

open access: yesBMC Ophthalmology, 2018
Background The characteristics of the target group and the design of an epidemiologic study, in particular the recruiting methods, can influence participation.
Pedro Lima Ramos   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Profound vision loss impairs psychological well-being in young and middle-aged individuals. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
PurposeThe aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of profound vision loss on psychological well-being in adolescents, young adults, and middle-aged adults with regard to mood, interpersonal interactions, and career-related goals.
Baron, David   +8 more
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Relationships between neuropsychological and antisaccade measures in multiple sclerosis patients [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2018
Background The Stroop test is frequently used to assess deficits in inhibitory control in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). This test has limitations and antisaccade eye movements, that also measure inhibitory control, may be an alternative to Stroop.
Marisa Borges Ferreira   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Common Approach to Low Vision: Examination and Rehabilitation of the Patient with Low Vision

open access: yesTürk Oftalmoloji Dergisi, 2019
Due to the increasing age of the global population, rates of visual disability are increasing. Visual rehabilitation is an effective method for increasing quality of life among individuals with low vision or blindness due to unpreventable or untreatable ...
Esra Şahlı, Aysun İdil
doaj   +1 more source

Higher order color mechanisms : Evidence from noise-masking experiments in cone contrast space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study addresses a fundamental question concerning the number of cortical, i.e., higher order mechanisms in color vision. The initial subcortical stages in color vision can be described by three cone mechanisms, S, M, L, and three pairs of second ...
Gegenfurtner, Karl R., Hansen, Thorsten
core   +2 more sources

Anxiety levels moderate the association between visual acuity and health-related quality of life in chronic eye disease patients

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
The current study examines the potential moderating effect of depression and anxiety on the relationship between visual acuity and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic eye diseases. Of the 71 patients, 37 (52%) were female and 34 (48%)
Hugo Senra   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Antioxidant and Biological Properties of Mesenchymal Cells Used for Therapy in Retinitis Pigmentosa

open access: yesAntioxidants, 2020
Both tissue repair and regeneration are a priority in regenerative medicine. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a complex retinal disease characterized by the progressive loss of impaired photoreceptors, is currently lacking effective therapies: this represents ...
Paolo Giuseppe Limoli   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The quality of a Neural Machine Translation system depends substantially on the availability of sizable parallel corpora. For low-resource language pairs this is not the case, resulting in poor translation quality. Inspired by work in computer vision, we
Bisazza, Arianna   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Reading performances of low vision children after using low vision aid [PDF]

open access: yesSrpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2018
Introduction/Objective. The objectives of the paper are to assess the causes of low vision (LV) in pediatric population in Montenegro and to evaluate the influence of low vision aids (LVA) on reading performance regarding the speed of reading and the ...
Tončić Zorica   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancement of near-infrared response for GaAs-based photocathode with laminated graded-bandgap structure: theory and experiment

open access: yesJournal of Materials Research and Technology, 2022
To enhance the quantum efficiency of GaAs-based photocathode in the near-infrared range, a laminated graded-bandgap photocathode structure consisting of a distributed Bragg reflection layer and a graded-bandgap emission layer is proposed. The theoretical
Ziheng Wang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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