The present study used single-unit recording and electrical microstimulation techniques in alert, trained rhesus monkeys to examine the involvement of the posterior interposed nucleus (IP) of the cerebellum in vergence and accommodative eye movements. Neurons related to vergence and ocular accommodation were encountered within a circumscribed region of the IP and their activity during changes i...

Tourism is currently one of the world’s fastest growing industries (Cluster Consortium,1999). The phenomenal growth of tourism worldwide has led to tourism becoming big business and highly considered by governments as part of their developmental strategies. Tourism is able to create local jobs, empowers communities and distribute income are some of the reasons that both private and public secto...

We discuss the growing needs for appropriate accommodation for young people with acquired brain injury by exploring the accommodation of young people with brain injury in nursing homes. While the actual number is not clear, it is certainly expected to grow. Reviewing the literature and drawing on clinical experience exposes how nursing home becomes an option for these people. We argue that this...

The refracting power of the eye results from the static power of the eye (the combined ability of the cornea and the lens to bend incoming rays of light) and the accommodative power of the eye (the variable force of accommodation that alters the path of light rays by causing the ciliary body to change the curvature of the lens). The total increase in plus power that accommodation produces is kn...

A general fault accommodation system is proposed in this paper. Detailed accommodation strategies are presented for different types of faults. A combination of different diagnostic techniques involved in collective problem solving is used in the diagnosis module. A pseudomeasurement based Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is used to perform the fault parameter estimation task for differential and al...

We have carried out a number of different studies in chicks to examine the relationship between choroidal blood flow and myopic eye growth, and between accommodation and myopic eye growth. Our studies on choroidal blood flow show that myopic eye growth produced by form vision degradation leads to dramatic reductions in choroidal blood flow. These reductions appear directly attributable to the e...