BACKGROUND "Vision 2020 - the right to sight" is a program which purpose is to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020 through the implementation of concrete action plans at the national and district levels. Accordingly, baseline data are needed for the planning, monitoring, follow-up and evaluation of this program. The present study aimed to better characterize visual impairment and bli...

The growth of neurosciences in Malaysia is unlike other Asian countries like Singapore, South Korea, China and Japan (1) where a rate of 6 to 20% is expected per annum. A survey of Googles [www.google.com] indicated that there were only 621, 000 hits concerning scientific neuroscience publications from Malaysia of which 161 were from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Hits on publications on neurology ...

As laid out in the National Airspace System (NAS) Operational Evolution Plan (OEP) [1], the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the aviation community are planning to make significant investment in NAS improvements over the next ten years. These enhancements involve implementation of Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) technologies, and automation of ground systems in order t...

Genetically modified, i.e. transgenic crops, are now being grown on several million acres throughout the world, mainly in North America. Most of these ‘first generation’ products have specific agronomic traits designed to improve the efficiency of production. For example herbicide tolerant soybean and insect resistant corn are the two most widely grown transgenic crops. Increasingly, the new tr...

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