PURPOSE Head mounted displays are a type of wearable technology - a market that is projected to expand rapidly over the coming years. Probably the most well known example is the device Google Glass (or 'Glass'). Here we investigate the extent to which the device display can interfere with normal visual function by producing monocular disability glare. METHODS Contrast sensitivity was measured...

INTRODUCTION The current study examined the presence of cortical hyperexcitability, in nonclinical hallucinators, reporting different forms of anomalous bodily experiences (ABEs). Groups reporting visual out-of-body experiences and nonvisual sensed-presence experiences were examined. It was hypothesised that only those hallucinators whose experiences contained visual elements would show increas...

Optometrists frequently encounter patients with migraine and patients and practitioners sometimes suspect that visual stimuli or visual anomalies trigger headaches. There is a lack of evidence-based research on the issue, however. Some patients with migraine may be hypersensitive to visual stimuli, and it has been suggested that individually prescribed coloured filters might be an effective tre...

PURPOSE To compare visual function after bilateral implantation of multifocal Lentis Mplus LS-312 (Group A) or Acrysof Restor SN6AD1 (Group B) intraocular lenses (IOLs). SETTING Ophthalmology Unit, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, and Visual Neuroscience Laboratory, IBILI, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. DESIGN Comparative case series. METHODS P...

PURPOSE To compare the visual responses of post refractive surgery's patients using Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study Chart (ETDRS) and E-chart with and without color filters. METHODS The uncorrected Logarithm of the Minimum Angle of Resolution Visual Acuity (LogMAR VA) of 70 patients with a mean age of 26.2 ± 3.76 years (from 19 to 34 years) who had undergone Photorefractive Keratec...

We present GLARE, a domain-independent system for acquiring, representing and executing clinical guidelines (GL). GLARE is characterized by the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in the definition and implementation of the system. First of all, a high-level and user-friendly knowledge representation language has been designed. Second, a user-friendly acquisition tool, which pro...

This study evaluated the visual quality after wavefront-guided laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) for treating myopia. Thirty-two eyes with moderate myopia (-5.78 - -2.17D) and 25 eyes with high myopia (-7.78 - -6.17D) were prospectively reviewed. The contrast sensitivity (CS), glare and the total higher order aberrations (HOA) were measured before and 1 week, 1 month and 2 months after LASIK...

In this study the five-phase method and a parallelized invocation of evalglare has been used, to evaluate performance microstructure Low-E window w/wo external blind, in terms glare. The first part results investigates how Bidirectional-Scattering-Distribution-Functions, BSDF, aBSDF (Aperture BSDF) properties bias predicted glare through microstructure, linking BSDF rank saturation resolution c...

Abstract Forming limit curve (FLC) is a valuable tool for predicting the formability of materials. Considering need to develop FLC fiber metal laminates (FMLs), Glare in 2/1 sequence was prepared development FLC. The prepreg used glass stacked between aluminum sheets semi-cured state, which allows enhanced strain percentage and helps predict maximum forming Glare. experimental data accumulated ...