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Optometrist and lead researcher on the project, Associate Professor Scott Read who is the director of research at QUT's School of Optometry and Vision Science, said children need to spend more than an hour and preferably at least two hours a day outside to help prevent myopia from developing and progressing.

Not exact matches

27 % of American humans suffer from indefensible mental myopia.

The consequence of that unreasonable stubbornness and tactical myopia was what he witnessed from the dugout this evening — the surrender of a three - goal Arsenal.

The participants — all free of cataracts or other eye diseases — had vision prescriptions ranging from nearsightedness (myopia) to farsightedness (hyperopia).

Katie Williams, first author from the Department of Ophthalmology at King's College London, said: «We knew myopia was becoming more common in certain parts of the world — almost 8 in 10 young people are affected in urban East Asia — but it is very interesting to find that the same pattern is being seen here in Europe.

Currently, it's estimated that over 2 billion people in the world suffer from myopia.

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 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.

The number with vision loss from high myopia is expected to increase seven-fold from 2000 to 2050, with myopia to become a leading cause of permanent blindness worldwide.

To manage this public health issue, multiple Chinese government agencies and universities, together with experts from Stanford University, have undertaken several large studies on childhood myopia.

In the U.S., the prevalence of myopia nearly doubled from 25 percent in the 1970s to 42 percent in the early 2000s.

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.

The method of claim 2, wherein said connective tissue disorder is selected from the group consisting of degenerative joint diseases, joint defects, osteoarthritis, polychondritis, vascular disease, cartilage injuries, progressive myopia and Menier's disease.

Right from the first moment, Rebecca Hall steals every scene; a brilliant intellect hamstrung by the gender myopia of her time.

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.

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).

Physical health benefits — reduced risks of obesity and myopia, and improved recovery from certain medical conditions; and,

At a similar time, research from Australian optometrists demonstrated that outdoor light plays an important role in reducing the chances of myopia, or short - sightedness, in children.

From this complacency springs a myopia that is difficult to overcome but that could harm the future of the country.

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.

I'm a good writer, but I suffer from self - editing myopia.

Geeks — and the multimedia conglomerates that Marvel (Disney) and DC Comics (Warner Brothers) are a part of — often suffer from a kind of myopia that limits their ability to share what they love.

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).

Whilst a lot of credence is given to the technical achievements of Western development, all of which are hard earned and entirely justified I should add, when it comes to functional achievement we still need a swift anecdote from arrogant complacency and cultural myopia.

The Grey Art Gallery is pleased to host the first comprehensive exhibition of this remarkably creative artist and polymath, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, on view at New York University from April 26 to July 15, 2017.

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.

More information about Mothersbaugh and Myopia is available from the New York Times.

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.

That confidence looks now like cultural myopia arising from America's predominance in the Allies» World War II victory.

All of the proposals, carbon tax, cap - and - trade, cap - and - dividend, and Manhattan - style deployment of technology all suffer from this myopia.

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.

Then there is the alleged threat of myopia resulting from overexposure of young eyes to tablets: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-10/lack-time-outdoors-more-ipad-blamed-childrens-eye-problems/6594522.

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