Although globalization has created ample opportunities and spaces to share experiences and information, the diffusion of ideas, especially in global health, is primarily influenced by the unequal distribution of economic, political and scientific powers around the world. These ideas in global health are generally rooted in High-Income Countries (HICs), and then reach Low- and Middle-Income Coun...

The size of our body influences the perceived size of the world so that objects appear larger to children than to adults. The mechanisms underlying this effect remain unclear. It has been difficult to dissociate visual rescaling of the external environment based on an individual's visible body from visual rescaling based on a central multisensory body representation. To differentiate these pote...

48 Abstract As the environments in which we live become more intelligent— through more computational power, embedded sensors and network connections between the devices that reside in the environment—there is a risk of leaving its users clueless about what is going on. User interaction changes from interaction with a single device into interaction with a larger system— an ecology of things. Phy...

purpose: to report two cases of oil-drop cataract and the description of this entity. patients and findings: two women (one 46 and the other 56 years-old) presented with gradual visual loss. previous studies including ct scan, mri, vep and erg were normal. with the use of simple diagnostic tests including a multiple pinhole occluder and use of visuscope, a diagnosis of oil-drop cataract was mad...

The Seme of Burkina Faso attribute all the problems they encounter to interventions from invisible world. They identify cause and appropriate remedy (blood sacrifice) through divination. diviner, called by invisible, is intimately linked a bush spirit an initiation. This becomes his divination assistant thus intermediary have developed particularly precise representations successive sequences t...