Nontuberculous or atypical mycobacterial ocular infections have been increasing in prevalence over the past few decades. They are known to cause periocular, adnexal, ocular surface and intraocular infections and are often recalcitrant to medical therapy. These infections can potentially cause detrimental outcomes, in part due to a delay in diagnosis. We review 174 case reports and series on non...

"Planned behavior" is a widely-known paradigm used to predict individual behavior. Basing on a competing paradigm called “goal-directed automaticity”, research addressed the mutual support of both paradigms – thus the importance of habits for the continued usage. A versus between both paradigms – thus the inhibiting effect of habits on the adoption of a new system was thematized in 2012 by Poli...

C oal miners’ nystagmus was one of the first occupational illnesses ever recognized as being due to a hazardous working environment. It aroused great concern and much controversy in Great Britain in the first half of the 20th century but was not seen in the United States. Miners’ nystagmus became a significant financial problem for the British workmen’s compensation program, and the British med...

Vicarious learning from others’ dialogues Learning by observing spontaneous conversations between other learners is an educational task which has been proved to be effective (Cox et al. 1998). A challenging oal is to accomplish such a task through a tutoring system and to show how it can be usefully supported by formal accounts of educational dialogue. In particular, there is a need for charact...

The focus of this study is on the impact of World Bank structural adjustment operations on health expenditures and outcomes. We compare trends and levels of real per capita public spending on health, private consumption (which is the resource base for private health expenditures), and groupings child mortality indicators in four groups of countries. These are: (i) countries that started to borr...