ophthalmic public health; the way ahead.

Ophthalmic Public Health; the Way Ahead

BACKGROUND Visual sciences have been progressing quickly in recent decades through globalization phenomenon. An enormous change has taken place in ocular health issues, however, there are various problems facing ophthalmic public health worldwide. In the previous years, the World Health Organization and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness in partnership launched the global ...

The Inter-Governmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG)--the way ahead.

Fusion: the way ahead

• Fusion is the process whereby two light nuclei bind to form a heavier nucleus with the release of energy • Harnessing fusion on Earth via deuterium and tritium reactions would lead to an environmentally friendly and almost limitless energy source • One promising route to fusion power is to magnetically confine a hot, dense plasma inside a doughnut-shaped device called a tokamak • The JET toka...

The Way Ahead

Priorities for creating a community with better mental health.

Image Interpretation: The Way Ahead?

Some unsolved problems about vision are discussed in relation to the goal of understanding the space of possible mechanisms with the power of human vision. The following issues are addressed: What are the functions of vision? What needs to be represented? How should it be represented? What is a good global architecture for a human-like visual system? How should the visual sub-system relate to t...

Digital dentistry: The way ahead

My term as ISP President has been satisfying with numerous scientific events in India and abroad. This year, we had five professional enrichment programs; Sameeksha in Udaipur, Integrate at Pune and Varanasi, Undergraduate Conference with ISP as knowledge partner at Belgaum, Parichay at Vadodara and Mahe, Colloquium at Chandigarh, Indore, and Chennai, TOT program at Chennai and Muradnagar, ISP-...