Indoor light quality is the intensity and amount of illumination interior spaces. Technological developments have led to utilisation artificial natural light. Illumination crucial in visibility tasks. Quality can influence visual comfort ocular health students. Although Kenya lacks lighting standards for schools, ISO CIE provide international guidelines on optimal various facilities. This study...

Students with autism display sensory sensitivities to environmental stimuli that affect their attending and engagement in classroom learning activities. The purpose of the study was to determine whether attending of 4 male students, ages 13-20, increased after the installation of sound-absorbing walls and halogen lighting. The multiple single-subject, mixed-method design, AB(B+C), included a 2-...

BACKGROUND Oral therapies and chemodenervation procedures are often unrewarding in the treatment of focal, task-specific hand disorders such as writer's cramp or primary writing tremor (PWT). METHODS A portable writing orthotic device (WOD) was evaluated on 15 consecutively recruited writer's cramp and PWT subjects. We measured overall impairment at baseline and after 2 weeks of at-home use w...

In this paper, we exploit two characteristics of stereoscopic vision: the pop-out effect and the comfort zone. We propose a visual saliency prediction model for stereoscopic images based on stereo contrast and stereo focus models. The stereo contrast model measures stereo saliency based on the color/depth contrast and the pop-out effect. The stereo focus model describes the degree of focus base...

As the number of weblog users increase, RSS readers, which collect update information delivered as RSS feeds from such web sites, become popular to be used. Most of the commonly used RSS readers are in a tasteless style. In contrast, we aim to make a new type of RSS readers with the concepts of ‘pleasure’ and ‘comfort’ in mind. This paper describes two types of visual RSS readers with a high re...

Contact lens correction of astigmatism is reviewed. According to literature data, rigid gas permeable lenses are the lenses of choice in correction of irregular and high astigmatism. The crucial advantage of rigid gas permeable lenses is clear vision and stable correction of astigmatism. Soft toric lenses ensure quick adaptation and comfort. The most prominent disadvantage of soft toric contact...

Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, is a powerful diagnostic tool for today's medical practitioners. New advances in scanner technology are increasing the breadth of MRI's applications at a rapid pace, and the number of scanning suites has exploded in the past decade. Due to the immense technical complexity of MRI systems, these suites can be challenging to design, but certain strategies can he...