Sentences with phrase «of blind individuals»

A California federal court has considered whether a group of blind individuals could continue with their lawsuit against the Target Corporation («Company») because the company's website, Target.com («Website»), was allegedly inaccessible to the blind and so violated the Americans with Disabilities Act («ADA»).

Here, NFB had identified a class of blind individuals who claimed that they were denied access to the good and services of the Company's stores because of the Website.

When the vision of Freedom Guide Dogs and Hometown Training ™ was developed, the special needs of blind individuals was a focal...

When the vision of Freedom Guide Dogs and Hometown Training ™ was developed, the special needs of blind individuals was a focal point.

I quote» they been wise wise in their thoughts became fools» so my ignorant christain brethren pls don't attend to the vain sayings of these blinded individuals, the world must and will see the glory of God shining on us, before our sweet jesus comes to take us to be with him in the rapture.

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However, that should never blind an individual as to the eventual outcome of this world — nothing means anything because in the end it all disappears.

I feel sorry for all of those individuals and there blind hate of something they have no idea about.

But his main blind - spot in relationship to Kierkegaard was his inability to see that, for Kierkegaard, the individual exists before the living God, who is calling him into fullness of life.

«A 1999 follow - up by William S Harris et al. attempted to replicate Byrd's findings under stricter experimental conditions, noting that the original research was not completely blinded and was limited to only «prayer - receptive» individuals (57 of the 450 patients invited to participate in the study refused to give consent «for personal reasons or religious convictions»).

They did not mean, of course, that you might not find an odd individual here and there who did not know it, just as you find a few people who are colour - blind or have no ear for a tune.

But there is also a Utopian liberalism, a blind hatred of all social order, an irrational fear of anything that sets limits to individual caprice.

It makes a kind of sense to say that we've worked out a dimension of individual liberty or autonomy to which our Founders were blind.

Thus the «blind» word «God» which appeals to no definite individual experience is just right to speak to us of God, because it is the last word before all is muted; because all definable individuality disappears and we are faced with the one who is the foundation of all.

If, as we have shown, the social phenomenon is not merely a blind determinism but the portent, the inception of a second phase of human Reflexion (this time not merely individual but collective), then it must mean that the phylum is reconstituting itself above our heads in a new form, a new ramification, no longer of divergence but of convergence; and consequently it is the Sense of Evolution which, suppressing the spirit of egoism, is of its own right springing to new life in our hearts, and in such a way as to counteract those elements in the forces of collectivization which are poisonous to Life.

Without immortality it is not simply true of individuals that, as another put it, life is «a blind, brief flicker between two oblivions»; in the long run that is also true of the whole human race.

Any individual who could actually READ the mounds of research on evolutionary theory and conclude the evidence is insufficient would either have to be willfully blinded or functionally redarded.

Final Thought Manchester United's trio of Valencia, Blind and Rooney must win these individual player battles against their Arsenal counterparts, as Sanchez and Ozil, in particular, are capable of winning the game for the Gunners if they get the better of their respective battles against Valencia and Blind.

Wenger also suggested that the team's attitude has been spot on throughout the whole season and if that is how he really sees things, is this final proof that the boss is blind to the failings of his own team and the individual players in it?

I will turn a blind eye to what others choose to feed their kids on an individual basis, but if there is some policy at the school that demands that what another parent sends must be served to my child, then there needs to be some kind of standard to which those offerings are held.

Blinding «was not possible at the LGA (randomisation) or cluster levels; however, individual women in the LGAs were not aware of the intervention allocation — the intention was that any trial arm allocation was «standard» care within the LGA during the intervention period».

Over the course of the past weeks, ACB members from all across the country have asked how they could help our fellow blind individuals negatively affected by Hurricane Harvey.

Any results that are reported to constitute a blinded, independent validation of a statistical model (or mathematical classifier or predictor) must be accompanied by a detailed explanation that includes: 1) specification of the exact «locked down» form of the model, including all data processing steps, algorithm for calculating the model output, and any cutpoints that might be applied to the model output for final classification, 2) date on which the model or predictor was fully locked down in exactly the form described, 3) name of the individual (s) who maintained the blinded data and oversaw the evaluation (e.g., honest broker), 4) statement of assurance that no modifications, additions, or exclusion were made to the validation data set from the point at which the model was locked down and that neither the validation data nor any subset of it had ever been used to assess or refine the model being tested

«No other birds are known to have a free - living population of blind [individuals],» says Tennyson.

Just as in sighted individuals using vision, the brain regions that play a critical role in processing the structure and geometry of objects are distinct from the brain regions that process the cues that signal the material properties of objects in blind echolocators.

Research done by Dr. Mel Goodale, from the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, and colleagues around the world, is showing that echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and that blind echolocation experts recruit regions of the brain normally associated with visual perception when making echo - based assessments of objects.

«Individuals who were born deaf and who are isolated from both speech and sign language in early childhood grow up blind to the structure of languages.»

Color blindness is not always a disadvantage, according to University of Calgary primatologist Amanda Melin and her colleagues, who found that wild color - blind capuchins in Costa Rica are better at detecting camouflaged insects than individuals with broader color vision.

After less than five minutes of training, both blind and blindfolded individuals were able to estimate distance successfully almost 70 % of the time, and the success rate surpassed 80 % for two of the three blind participants.

In the real world, even that type of simple input could help blind or visually impaired individuals navigate.

«You're greatly increasing the chances of populating a new habitat if it only takes one individual,» he says, citing the example of the brahminy blind snake (Ramphotyphlops braminus), another parthenogenetic species.

Recently, cognitive neuroscientist Marlene Behrmann at Carnegie Mellon University and her colleagues gathered some important clues to this puzzle by comparing the brains of individuals who are face - blind to those who are face - sighted.

If these patches become large and involve the very center of the macula (the fovea), the individual's visual acuity can fall to the point that he or she is considered legally blind.

The database was locked for the primary unblinded analysis after study day 90 so that results could be used to plan a Phase 2 trial, and the study continued in a single - blinded fashion, although individual study allocations were not disclosed to on - site study investigators or staff, with the exception of the principal investigator.

All wells read positive for DYS14 sequence by the software were confirmed by individual amplification analysis in a blinded manner by one of the authors (VKG).

According to a study published in International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, reporting on the research from a blind experiment involving placebo controlled human trial, the daily intake of 500 mg of Grecunin extract during the course of eight weeks, greatly lowered the levels of body fat and estradiol in resistance training individuals, and at the same time it increased the total lean body mass and the levels of available testosterone.

Jonathan M. Oliver, Lee Stoner, David S. Rowlands, et al., «Novel Form of Curcumin Improves Endothelial Function in Young, Healthy Individuals: A Double - Blind Placebo Controlled Study,» Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, vol.

In this double - blind, placebo controlled study, Stoll and his team determined that individuals suffering from manic and mood disorders exhibited collectively low levels of EPA and DHA.

Meeting people can be difficult, and many individuals turn to blind dates as an alternative to aimlessly cruising singles» clubs or dating websites in the hope of finding someone suitable.

Helping you find a compatible match, Eight at Eight increases your chances by increasing the number of guests at the dinner table, offering you the chance to meet more sex personals singles at once, avoiding the individual blind dates.

A possible example of this is «gokon», a Japanese word that translates as a group blind date or group dating, the idea being that a group of men and women will go out on a kind of combined date in the hope of making individual romantic attachments.

Down to the tiny bits of fur on the Three Blind Mice to the individual strands of hair in Merlin's beard and Fiona's hair, DreamWorks Animation advanced already advanced systems to push the envelope and bring alive what started as pencil sketches.

Each of the play's many extended family members is crucial to the arc of the narrative, their secrets and lies and blind spots all converging into one operatically messy family story, yet when translated to the language of film, their individual presences greatly damage time and space.

Provides an extensive selection of services and programs for individuals who have vision impairments or are blind.

Systemic and / or historic issues such as individual and institutionalized racism and classism; language barriers; gender bias; cultural blinders and a variety of prejudices represent profound challenges and obstacles to positive parent - teacher relationships.

After years of working in schools beset by turnaround programs that turned a blind eye to our individual experiences and communities, I now work in a school with a high capacity for responding to new demands and improving instruction.

(A) designate a State agency as the sole State agency to administer the plan, or to supervise its administration by a local agency, except that (i) where under the State's law the State agency for the blind or other agency which provides assistance or services to the adult blind, is authorized to * provide vocational REHABILITATION services to such individuals, such agency may be designated as the sole State agency to administer the part of the plan * under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind (or to supervise the administration of such part by a local agency) and a separate State agency may be designated as the sole State agency with respect to the rest of the State plan, and (ii) the Secretary, upon the request of a State, may authorize such agency to share funding and administrative responsibility with another agency of the State or with a local agency in order to permit such agencies to carry out a joint program to provide services to handicapped individuals, and may waive compliance with respect to vocational * REHABILITATION services furnished under such programs with the requirement of clause (4) of this subsection that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of that State;

(c) The Secretary is authorized (directly or by grants or contracts) to conduct studies, investigations, and evaluation of the programs authorized by this ACT, and to make reports, with respect to abilities, aptitudes, and capacities of handicapped individuals, development of their potentialities, their utilization in gainful and suitable employment, and with respect to architectural, transportation, and other environmental and attitudinal barriers to their REHABILITATION, including the problems of homebound, institutionalized, and older blind individuals.

(B)(i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1)(B)(ii), either that such unit shall be so located and have such status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to clause (1) of this subsection, such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency, and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such agency, with the provisions of this clause applying separately to each of such units; provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies to meet the amount of the non - Federal share; provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist in promoting the vocational REHABILITATION of substantially larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non - Federal share of the * cost of such vocational REHABILITATION services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

(b) In making such grants or contracts, funds made available for any year will be utilized to provide a balanced program of assistance to meet the medical, vocational, and other personnel training needs of both public and private REHABILITATION programs and institutions, to include projects in REHABILITATION medicine, REHABILITATION nursing, REHABILITATION counseling, REHABILITATION social work, REHABILITATION psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, workshop and facility administration, prosthetics and orthotics, specialized personnel in providing services to blind and deaf individuals, recreation for ill and handicapped individuals, and other fields contributing to the REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals, including homebound and institutionalized individuals and handicapped individuals with limited English - speaking ability.

(B) provide that the State agency so designated to administer or supervise the administration of the State plan, or (if there are two State agencies designated under subclause (A) of this clause) to supervise or administer the part of the State plan that does not relate to services for the blind, shall be (i) a State agency primarily concerned with vocational REHABILITATION, or vocational and other REHABILITATION, of handicapped individuals, (ii) the State agency administering or supervising the administration of education or vocational education in the State, or (iii) a State agency which includes at least two other major organizational units each of which administers one or more of the major public education, public health, public welfare, or labor programs of the State; provide, except in the case of agencies described in clause (1)(B)(i)-