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Improving access to refractive and eye health services
Community Eye Health Journal, 2016 Avoidable blindness and vision impairment affects 741 million people worldwide. Uncorrected refractive error (URE) is the major cause, accounting for 84% of all cases, or 625 million people. Despite URE being easily detected, measured and corrected, many
Luigi Bilotto +5 more
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Recent Advances in Variable‐Stiffness Robotic Systems Enabled by Phase‐Change Materials
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Phase‐change materials (PCMs), such as shape memory alloys, hydrogels, shape memory polymers, liquid crystal elastomers, and low‐melting‐point alloys, are driving advancements in stiffness‐tunable robotic systems across a wide range of applications. This review highlights recent progress in PCM‐enabled robotics, focusing on their underlying mechanisms,
Sukrit Gaira +5 more
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Budgeting for a district VISION 2020 programme
Community Eye Health Journal, 2005 Core concepts of a strong VISION 2020 programme Many eye care professionals view the prospect of budgeting with about as much pleasure as a visit to the dentist!
Susan Lewallen +2 more
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, 2016 Die Große Transformation ist geprägt von der Realität asynchroner Modernisierungsprozesse und der notwendigen Harmonisierung von nationalen Entwicklungszielen. Wie erfolgreich diese sein kann, hängt nicht zuletzt von den sich schnell entwickelnden, bevölkerungsreichen Ländern wie zum Beispiel Indien ab.
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Vision 2020: The Health Sector in Nigeria’s Economic Growth; 1975-2008
, 2009 Anietie Essien
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VISION 2020: what remains to be done after the COVID-19 pandemic? [PDF]
, 2021 Scott R. Lambert
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The world food situation [PDF]
This report comes out of ongoing IFPRI research and activities conducted as part of the 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment initiative, which aims to generate information to eradicate hunger, prevent poverty, and protect the ...
Pandya-Lorch, Rajul +2 more
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Modulus‐Switchable Miniature Robots for Biomedical Applications: A Review
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Materials, robot designs, proof‐of‐concept functions, and biomedical applications of modulus‐switchable miniature robots. Miniature soft robots have shown great potential in biomedical applications due to their excellent controllability and suitable mechanical properties in biological environments.
Chunyun Wei, Yibin Wang, Jiangfan Yu
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Yaruqui-Ecuador: An ongoing district VISION 2020 programme
Community Eye Health Journal, 2005 In the Tumbaco valley, 40 km northwest of the capital city of Ecuador, Quito, there is a group of eight small towns with a population of 150,000 inhabitants, most of whom are mixed race (Mestizo) and 15% are indigenous people.
Felipe Chiriboga
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Liquid Metal Sensors for Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review thoroughly reviews liquid metal sensors in soft robots. Their unique material properties like high conductivity and good biocompatibility are analyzed. Working principles are classified, and applications in environmental perception, motion detection, and human—robot interaction are introduced.
Qi Zhang +7 more
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