Sentences with phrase «myopia among»

This means that lower vitamin D levels were related to more severe myopia among the study participants.

In urban Asian areas myopia among teenagers is topping 90 percent — but foresight may be able to bring those numbers way down.

Not exact matches

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.

The rapid increase in the prevalence of myopia globally is attributed to, «environmental factors (nurture), principally lifestyle changes resulting from a combination of decreased time outdoors and increased near work activities, among other factors,» say the authors from Brien Holden Vision Institute, University of New South Wales Australia and Singapore Eye Research Institute.

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...

These benefits include among others various types of cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer disease / dementia, myopia and macular degeneration, diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

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.

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.

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.

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).