Numerous projects have investigated assistive navigation technologies for the blind community, tackling challenges ranging from interface design to sensory substitution. However, none of these have successfully integrated what we consider to be the three factors necessary for a widely deployable system that delivers a rich experience of one’s environment: implementation on a commodity device, u...

BACKGROUND Most information on the causes of blindness has come from examining children in special education. To obtain a more representative population-based sample of children, a novel method was developed for ascertaining severe visually impaired (SVI) or blind (BL) children by training local volunteers to act as key informants (KIs). OBJECTIVE To compare the demography and cause of blindn...

While retinal degeneration and disease results in permanent damage and vision loss in humans, the severely damaged zebrafish retina has a high capacity to regenerate lost neurons and restore visual behaviors. Advancements in understanding the molecular and cellular basis of this regeneration response give hope that strategies and therapeutics may be developed to restore sight to blind and visua...

the frequency and impacts of floods have increased in iran in the past few decades. as flood events are in most instances associated with human activities, mitigating their impacts requires non-structural and community-based initiative alongside structural measures. in this connection, the concept of community resilience has been advanced in recent times, which attaches importance to interactio...

There are well-established links between successful athlete development, retention and high-quality coaching. Such athletes coaches also pertinent in disability sports. However, there is limited knowledge around coaching coaches’ needs barriers sport. To bridge this gap, a self-narrative approach was employed covering 5-year period of the first author’s career Blind (B1) Visually Im...

The peer-review system as a critical tool in academic processes is regarded to be essential. It not used only evaluate the manuscripts submitted journals but also tenure decisions, promotions, and grant applications. However, during last few decades, has become subject of research criticized from various aspects. Many scholars studied process presented biases emerging due characteristics author...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact on birth size and risk of low birth weight of alternative combinations of micronutrients given to pregnant women. DESIGN Double blind cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING Rural community in south eastern Nepal. PARTICIPANTS 4926 pregnant women and 4130 live born infants. INTERVENTIONS 426 communities were randomised to five regimens in which pregna...