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Rifle Shooting for Athletes With Vision Impairment: Does One Class Fit All?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Revised evidence-based classification criteria introduced for shooting for athletes with vision impairment (VI shooting) suggest that athletes with impaired contrast sensitivity (CS) and visual acuity (VA) should be eligible for inclusion in the sport ...
Peter M. Allen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contrast Sensitivity Is a Significant Predictor of Performance in Rifle Shooting for Athletes With Vision Impairment

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Purpose: In order to develop an evidence-based, sport-specific minimum impairment criteria (MIC) for the sport of vision-impaired (VI) shooting, this study aimed to determine the relative influence of losses in visual acuity (VA) and contrast sensitivity
Peter M. Allen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Background: To contribute to the WHO initiative, VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, an assessment of global vision impairment in 2020 and temporal change is needed.
Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study   +1 more
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Vision Impairment and Patient Activation among Medicare Beneficiaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Purpose: Low patient activation is associated with poor patient outcomes. People with vision impairment may have low patient activation as a result of communication and access barriers.
Assi, Lama   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Comparing Loneliness among People with Hearing Impairment, Vision Impairment and Normal People [PDF]

open access: yesRavānshināsī-i Afrād-i Istis̠nāyī, 2016
The aim of the present study was to compare the loneliness in people with hearing impairment, vision impairment and normal people. The statistical population included all people with hearing impairment, vision impairment and normal people in Shiraz city.
setare shojai   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fear of Falling in Vision Impairment [PDF]

open access: yesOptometry and Vision Science, 2015
ABSTRACT Falls are the leading cause of injury‐related morbidity and mortality among older adults. In addition to the resulting physical injury and potential disability after a fall, there are also important psychological consequences, including depression, anxiety, activity restriction, and fear of falling. Fear of falling affects 20
White, Ursula   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Homing in Pigeons with Impaired Vision [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1972
In order to test the importance of vision in homing pigeons, their vision was impaired by frosted contact lenses. Pigeons wearing such lenses seemed unable to recognize artificial landmarks at 6-m distance. Nevertheless, most birds homed from distances of 15 km, and some even from 130-km distance.
K, Schmidt-Koenig, H J, Schlichte
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Protective effects of blocking PD-1 pathway on retinal ganglion cells in a mouse model of chronic ocular hypertension

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2023
PurposeIn this study, we aimed to investigate whether Programmed cell death 1 ligand 1/programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 (PD-L1/PD-L2) double knockout (dKO) has a protective effect on RGCs in a mouse model of chronic ocular hypertension (COHT).MethodsWe ...
Siqi Sheng   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Value of VR-PVEP in Objective Evaluation of Monocular Refractive Visual Impairment [PDF]

open access: yesFayixue Zazhi, 2023
Objective To study the virtual reality-pattern visual evoked potential (VR-PVEP) P100 waveform characteristics of monocular visual impairment with different impaired degrees under simultaneous binocular perception and monocular stimulations.
Hong-xia HAO, Jie-min CHEN, Rong-rong WANG, Xiao-ying YU, Meng WANG, Zhi-lu ZHOU, Yan-liang SHENG, Wen-tao XIA
doaj   +1 more source

Industry Factsheet: Colours for the homes of people with ageing eyes or vision impairment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of this factsheet is to assist service providers and tradespersons to select appropriate colours for the homes of people with ageing eyes or vision ...
Barlow, G   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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