Abstract Background Blindness has profound consequences for the victim, family, and society. The impact of vision loss on daily life activities could lead to psychological stress. Early treatment depression may reduce added disability that is associated with loss. This study aimed assess extent factors among Sudanese blind people in Khartoum, Sudan. A cross-section facility-based was conducted,...

The behavior composition problem involves automatically building a controller that is able to realize a desired, but unavailable, target system (e.g., a house surveillance) by suitably coordinating a set of available components (e.g., video cameras, blinds, lamps, a vacuum cleaner, phones, etc.) Previous work has almost exclusively aimed at bringing about the desired component in its totality, ...

The main objective of this work is to develop an electronic travel aid to assist the blinds for obstacle identification in their navigation. This navigation assistance for visually impaired (NAVI) system presented in this paper consists of a single board processing system (SBPS), a vision sensor mounted headgear and a pair of stereo earphones. The image environment in front of the blind is capt...

A group of routine data entry operators (female) was included in the Polish MEPS (musculoskeletal--eyestrain--psychosocial--stress) study. Before the intervention, ergonomic assessment revealed improper working conditions such as inadequate lighting, uncomfortable chairs, and lack of forearm and wrist support while medical examination revealed that trapezius muscle load along with upper arm, he...

Honey an ancient remedy "rediscovered" The usage of honey as a medicine is referred to in the most ancient written records, it being prescribed by the physicians of many ancient races of people for a wide variety of ailments (Ransome 1937). It has continued to be used in folk medicine ever since, but in recent times there has been a renaissance of the use of honey in the medical profession: an ...

In non-residential buildings, comfort and energy demand for heating, cooling and lighting are significantly influenced by the façade. Up to now, only non-weighted luminance-based methods for calculating and evaluating annual daylight glare exist (Lee et al., 2005; Mardaljevic and Lomas., 1998). Within this paper, different methods based on the daylight glare probability DGP (Wienold and Christo...

Klasik Arap edebiyatında görme kusurlarına ilişkin aktarımlar içerisinde en yoğun malzemeyi âmâ figürü ve körlük teması etrafında kurgulanan rivayetler oluşturur. Bu rivayetlerin muhteva yapısına bakıldığında bir kısmının mizahi formda kaydedildiği, bazısının üretiminde ise hiciv, teşbih, mesel, ironi, tahkir vb. kullanılarak yaklaşım sergilenmediği görülür. Her dönem toplumda olduğu gibi kadim...

The paper proposes the automatic opening and closing blinds’ structure. There is a bearing support seat located at the bottom of the inner beam to let the link rod set the position. Also, there are a front thread and a reversed thread, and a screw driven device on both sides of the link rod. Moreover, at the lateral end of the front and reversed threads, they are equipped with the holder of the...