Sentences with phrase «for myopia»

Children between ages 7 and 9 years were recruited for the Singapore Cohort Study of Risk Factors for Myopia (SCORM).

But, then again, «wabbits» are known for myopia (despite all the carrots they eat).

«Optometrists need to make their patients aware that less than 60 minutes» exposure to light outdoors per day is a risk factor for myopia,» he said.

The researchers examined the participants» vitamin D levels, evaluated each person for myopia and noted the severity of the condition.

«Optometrists need to make their patients aware that less than 60 minutes» exposure to light outdoors per day is a risk factor for myopia.

Not exact matches

For female entrepreneurs right now, that means not just disrupting their chosen fields but also disrupting the old boys» club, with its myopia and patriarchal outlook.

President Carter's announcement at Notre Dame in 1977 that Americans had gotten over their «inordinate fear of communism»» together with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's statement that Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev shared «similar dreams and aspirations about the most fundamental issues»» demonstrated that the degradation of moral judgment into moral posturing could coexist with breathtaking strategic myopia (and indeed moral blindness) in minds for which the evocation of the specter of Vietnam marked an end to moral reasoning, or indeed any other form of reasoning.

And all those educational apps and games that captivate the kids for hours can be causing headaches, fatigue, blurred vision, double vision, myopia and even computer vision syndrome if kids spend too much time with their technology.

If your baby was born prematurely — especially if he was very premature, had an infection, or needed treatment with oxygen — he's at greater risk for developing certain eye problems, including astigmatism (blurred vision), myopia (nearsightedness), retinopathy of prematurity (abnormal blood vessel growth that can lead to blindness), and strabismus (eye misalignment).

Sometimes called «night myopia,» decreased twilight vision is a significant functional problem for many young adults who have a slight shift toward myopia.

Myopia is on the rise all around the world, but there might be a simple way to spare many kids the need for spectacles

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.

Importantly, the effect was much greater than the effect of age — the ciliary muscle ring for a 40 - year - old person with myopia would be substantially larger than for a 60 - year - old person with hyperopia.

The presence of myopia, or nearsightedness, significantly affects the muscles used in focusing the lens of the eye — a finding with important implications for the development of «accommodating» implanted intraocular lenses (IOLs) that can adjust to different visual distances, reports a study in the January issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

«It looks like even for those with myopia already, increasing time outside is likely to reduce progression.»

«We applaud the efforts of U2 lead singer and social activist, Bono, through the REVO «Buy Vision, Give Sight» initiative for supporting the Our Children's Vision campaign, which aims to address the plight of children with myopia,» added Professor Naidoo.

Myopia is a concern for all people of all ages, but not just today, this is a generational commitment we must make.»

The findings point to a major public health problem, with the authors suggesting that planning for comprehensive eye care services are needed to manage the rapid increase in high myopes (a five-fold increase from 2000), along with the development of treatments to control the progression of myopia and prevent people from becoming highly myopic.

However, when adjusting for other factors, they found no statistically significant differences between lower - income and middle - class students that might explain higher myopia prevalence in richer areas.

Many researchers also postulate that exposure to certain kinds of light, particularly indoor versus outdoor light, may be responsible for the uptick in myopia.

The Neitzes are internationally recognized for developing a potential gene therapy cure for color blindness and are among the world's thought leaders on genetic and environmental factors that may be influencing a global epidemic of myopia...

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Acupuncture, which has been made use of for treatment of myopia and dry eye, was compared to patching in a study which involved 88 children.

A case could be mounted for parental myopia if the end results are masterpieces.

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.

He is self - righteous and insensitive, his frequently lost glasses a metaphor for his broader myopia.

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).

The tragic flaw in the thinking of many national - standards supporters is not the desire to create high bars for students to clear, but the utter delusion, or maybe just myopia, that allows them to assume that they will control the standards in a monopoly over which, by its very nature, they almost never hold the reins.

More - importantly, because the quality of teaching varies more within schools (from classroom to classroom) than among them, the racial myopia of teachers (and their low expectations for the poor and minority children in their care) are matters that have to be addressed in order to help all children succeed.

It is a general strategic myopia, which will slow the industry for years to come and keep profits subdued.

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.

By turning your back on other financial institutions, you may develop a case of «financial myopia» in which you don't think about shopping around for better banking options.

The entire genome will be evaluated for an association with myopia.

This can lead to myopia that's kind of staggering, and challenges the notion that the industry is too driven by casual - oriented business - think: 10 years later, the Sims has sold 125 million boxes or expansions for more than 2.5 billion in revenue, and yet no one has shipped a serious, well - funded competitor.

Mark Mothersbaugh — currently featured in the critically acclaimed MCA Denver exhibition Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia — is a composer of scores for movies and television, frontman for the influential musical group DEVO, and an artist who, much like Clyfford Still, has created and shown works on the periphery of the art world throughout his lifetime.

Regarding Global Myopia, Maggi states that: «far from a very twentieth - century attitude, in which it was expected to have solutions for everybody and always, nowadays, I believe that hopes are small and revealed with proximity.

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 them).

The exhibition is an extension and a mutation of Global Myopia, his installation for the Uruguayan Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, currently on view in the Giardini through November 22.

Regarding Global Myopia, Maggi states that: «far from a very twentiethcentury attitude, in which it was expected to have solutions for everybody and always, nowadays, I believe that hopes are small and revealed with proximity.

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.

For atheists who truly understand the falsifiable nature of the evolution hypothesis, but who can not see their religious faith in CAGW, I find it a disappointing myopia.

Soon, W. and D.R. Legates, 2010: Avoiding carbon myopia: Three considerations for policy makers concerning manmade carbon dioxide, Ecology Law Currents 37: 1 — 9.

Our problems are institutional; academia, press, uneducated government and the political system inhearant in it supported by a large majority of useful idiots driven by fear and environmental myopia Add to this the industrial complex necessarily driven by government law, power and money and you have a recipe for disaster.

Myopia is one explanation of why I might opt for dirty power instead of favouring my second - order preference for greenpower.

High - Speed Myopia Is Florida Governor Scott really concerned about the economic health of his state when he turns down funds for high - speed rail or just placating the Koch brothers and their minions?

In the U.S. and Europe, myopia for kids and young adults has doubled; in China it's up 80 percent.

«Economist Gary Becker says, «Hurricane Katrina and now the danger of an avian flu pandemic — one an actual, the other a potential, catastrophe for which the nation failed or is failing to prepare adequately — underscore the need for institutional reforms that will overcome policy myopia based on inability to plan seriously for responding to catastrophes of slight or unknown probability but huge potential harm,» Judge Richard Posner responds.»

It is perfect for people with low myopia.

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