Visionary Eye for Visual Impairment

Visual impairment and correctable visual impairment in an elderly population: the Baoshan eye study

VISIONARY: a Viewpoint-based Visual Language for Querying Relational Databases

The adoption of a visual interface can simplify the query formulation process in DBMSs by enabling naive users to interact with a friendly environment. In this work we propose a visual query language based on a diagrammatic paradigm, used for both data and query representation. The external data model is called vision and is made up of the visual primitives of concept and association. The exter...

Causes of incident visual impairment: the Blue Mountains Eye Study.

OBJECTIVE To describe the causes of 5-year incident visual impairment and doubling of the visual angle in a population-based cohort. METHODS Of the 3654 participants aged older than 50 years who participated in the Blue Mountains Eye Study (BMES I, 1992-1994), 543 died and 2335 were reexamined between 1997 and 1999 (BMES II). Visual acuity was measured using a logMAR chart before and after re...

Visual impairment and eye abnormalities in Oklahoma Indians.

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of visual impairment and eye abnormalities in Oklahoma Indians. METHODS The cross-sectional study included 1019 Oklahoma Indians, aged 48 to 82 years; 60.2% were women. All participants gave a personal interview, and all underwent an eye examination, including the determination of best-corrected visual acuity and an ophthalmoscopic examination. In additio...

The effect of visual impairment on emotional development and emotional competence in learners who are visual impairment

Abstract Background and Aim: Emotion is a strong affective perception or feeling that arises from personal circumstances, one's mood, or communication with others. Emotions are multidimensional and have holistic structures that consist of different dimensions such as behavioral expression, physiological layers, phenomenological experience, cognitive processes and social context. The aim of ...