Sentences with phrase «as myopia»

The company's implantable collamer lenses consists of Visian ICL and TICL, which are intraocular lenses used to correct refractive conditions, such as myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism.

As the child develops, it may be exposed to different diseases such as myopia and hyperopia.

And if the problem is more serious, such as myopia, you will be referred to an ophthalmologist.

Not exact matches

What I do think is that over the past decade, investors (including people who hold themselves out as investment professionals) have become far more susceptible to reckless myopia than I would have liked to believe.

Secondly, as I have mentioned, Cahill takes seriously the witness of the whole of the New Testament and thus avoids the myopia of those who wish to see the significance of Jesus exclusively in his teaching and who bypass the challenge of his sacrificial death and his continuing presence among us.

It is very doubtful that either parent can supply the emotional support the children need, afflicted as both parents are with myopia so severe as to disable these persons, at least temporarily, in their several roles as father and mother of the children.

In terms of bringing about the horizon shift we need, corporate myopia matters at least as much as political myopia.

Continental myopia will be difficult to sustain when immigrant flows reach Greece and other weak European economies as high unemployment, combined with political turmoil pushes MENA youth abroad.

On this as on other key appointments, Ed Miliband needs to sort out his myopia.

Humans can correct nearsightedness with glasses, contact lenses or surgery, but myopia can put individuals at risk for other diseases such as glaucoma and retinal detachment, she said.

As reported in previous studies, myopia was also associated with increased curvature of the lens.

High myopia additionally carries a risk of sight - threatening conditions such as retinal detachment, glaucoma and retinal degeneration.

Researchers found that using blackboards had a «protective effect» against nearsightedness when examined as a variable alone, possibly because blackboards do not require the kind of close - up focusing that may increase myopia.

Data show that nearsightedness, also called myopia, is twice as prevalent in the middle - income province of Shaanxi compared to the poorer neighboring province of Gansu.

This research was undertaken as part of the Gutenberg Health Study and the results demonstrate that myopia becomes more prevalent with a higher level of education.

In my husband's case, his mild myopia resolved at about the same time as my night blindness.

Epigenetic damage may range from mild to severe, and the resulting phenotype may include characteristics such as dental deformities, myopia, asymmetries of the face and disproportions of the body.

Pointedly, Lucy gets a couple of eloquent monologues in which to ponder such weighty matters as the impermanence of all life, the preciousness of every moment, the human tendency to prioritize feeling over thinking, the depressing myopia of human experience in general, and the fact that life gains meaning only with the passage of time.

The film and The Oasis become one oversized metaphor on how hard it is for shy guys to kiss girls and stuff, and embodies the very myopia of not seeing women as complete, complex beings beyond the adoration directed at them.

Reading The Day After Tomorrow as a 9/11 film, in fact, adds another level of polemical discussion in that the film's Vice President Becker (Dick Cheney ringer Kenneth Welsh) emerges as the «I don't believe you» villain endemic to disaster movies and, in this way, at least partly responsible for the number of casualties suffered on behalf of his myopia.

Night Moves is a quintessential Seventies picture because it indicts its audience as complicit in an entire society's myopia to the evils done in its name.

The cast manage to wrangle as much as possible from the material, Woodley in particular bringing some raw nerves to an otherwise blank slate, but it is ultimately not enough to rise above the film's many flaws — weird science and henchman myopia but minor among them.

Romanek and DP Jeff Cronenweth make smart visual choices, stylizing the film as a flipbook of vibrantly developed prints to befit Sy's view of the world, while reminding us — by obscuring his eyes behind a magnifying glass, mirror, or fractured windshield — of Sy's disturbed myopia.

Yet though he clearly understands the myopia of the wealthy people in The Muse, he refuses to look very far beyond their limitations — and almost seems ready to accept their world as a near facsimile of his own.

But as the Academy looks to reverse the tide of racial myopia, there remain plenty of other diverse options, from Mira Nair's lovely Queen of Katwe, a surprise runner - up for TIFF's People's Choice prize, to Denzel Washington's Fences, which will at the very least be a showcase piece for the actor - director, and especially for Viola Davis, who will be a top Best Actress contender (assuming they don't relegate her to the Supporting category, which is always possible as studios piece together the likeliest winning strategy).

As I have noted ad nauseam over the past few years, this myopia on Parent Power is a problem among nearly all Beltway and institution - oriented reform players.

As Jess's belief frays, her teenage myopia evolves into awareness about her fracturing family.

The image of this reader has me obsessing that as a species we are moving from Homo sapiens (wise man, or knowing man) to Homo myopia (short - sighted man, or stupid man with a smart phone).

A Harvard Business School study entitled «Capital Market Myopia» calculated that industry fundamentals (as of mid-1983) could not then nor in the foreseeable future have justified the total market capitalization of these companies.

The Policy Portfolio and the Next Equity Bear Market Fed Leaves Punchbowl, Takes Away Free Lunch (of International Diversification) Five Global Risks to Monitor in 2012 Rising Global Interest Rates Create Headwinds Three Profit Metrics to Avoid Earnings Season Myopia Changes in the Inflation Rate Matter as Much to Investors as the Level An Uneven Global Recovery — Lingering Effects of the Credit Crisis Perspectives on «Non-Traditional» Monetary Policy Do Past 10 - Year Returns Forecast Future 10 - Year Returns?

Yet the Buffetteers seem to only admire one tool for finding cheap stocks (size constraints), when myopia, ignorance, and a host of other biases are just as powerful in creating misvalued securities.

His creations, such as Global Myopia (Uruguayan Pavillion at the 56th Biennale di Venezia), encourage the public to slow down the pace, paying attention to the works in order to be able to get inside of them, unfolding its possible meanings, rethinking the surroundings and the society in which they live in.

Nucleic cities with legacy begin to resemble a Ballardian high - rise; the artist's isolation and myopia makes geography feel theoretical due to its confines, creating a warped Earth that exists insofar as an individual can directly engage with and sense it.

Opening: «Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia» at Grey Art Gallery As a musician, Mark Mothersbaugh has worked in playfully sophisticated and deceivingly naive art - pop modes as a founding member of the band Devo and the composer of scores for children's movies and TV shows (among them Pee - wee's Playhouse and Nickelodeon's Rugrats among themAs a musician, Mark Mothersbaugh has worked in playfully sophisticated and deceivingly naive art - pop modes as a founding member of the band Devo and the composer of scores for children's movies and TV shows (among them Pee - wee's Playhouse and Nickelodeon's Rugrats among themas a founding member of the band Devo and the composer of scores for children's movies and TV shows (among them Pee - wee's Playhouse and Nickelodeon's Rugrats among them).

The latter part is more original stuff, as I (i) make the case for how China's clean energy push is in fact consistent with its overall economic reform, e.g. Scientific Development, reduction of excess industrial capacity, natural resource price reform, western development, boosting domestic consumption, and Going Out strategy; (ii) describe China's activities in innovation and R&D and its desire to create, not just produce, energy technologies of the 21st century; (iii) address criticisms that China's «indigenous innovation» policies are protectionist in nature by pointing out the myopia of such observations from a US (or EU for that matter) policymakers point of view; (iv) provide thoughts about what the proper U.S. policy response should be.