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ARVO 2011: Visionary Genomics

Fort Lauderdale, Florida once again hosted more than 10,000 ophthalmology and vision science researchers. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting is well known for presentation of the latest milestones in fields related to vision science. ARVO is famous for being basic science oriented; clinical posters and papers, and even commercial exhibitions are marke...

British Standards for Spectacles.

EARLIER articles have reviewed parts of the work of the British Standards Institution in the field of standardization of spectacles (Brit. J. Ophthal., 1956, 40, 611; 1959, 43, 509), but the publication of B.S. 3521, completing the series of Standards relating to spectacles, provides the opportunity for a general survey. The nine British Standards fall into two categories with some overlap. The...

Designing Visionary Leadership Teams

Nigel Sykes’ 3E’s concept is examined against established theory and recent work in Organizational Behaviour. The possibility that this concept offers a way of developing social synergy in work groups is explored, and considered in the context of socio-technical systems. 3E’s is based on the categorisation of people in the workplace into roles labelled “Envisioners” “Enablers” or “Enactors”. Ro...

Retinal processing: Visionary transgenics

Two recent reports in which transgene techniques were used to label specific cell classes in the mouse retina have opened the way to new methods of studying retinal signal processing.