Eye health risks associated with unclean fuel: a meta-analysis and systematic review by Shi-Hang Chen, Yuan Tang, Song Xue, Song Xue

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Developing expertise and managing inaccessibility: a study of reading by listening practices among students with blindness or vision impairment by Anna Lundh

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A comparative analysis to find out the preferred and effective way to identify new Indian currency note by blind individual: A Pilot study by Vishal Biswas, Monira Sirajum Choudhury, Roshni Majumder

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Barriers to Uptake of Cataract Surgery in Central Chhattisgarh by Samrat Chatterjee, Nehal Mohata, Anil Babanrao Gangwe, Anupam Sahu, Deepshikha Agrawal

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Differences Between Amblyopic and Fellow Eyes in Optical Coherence Tomography: A Cohort from Jordanian Population by Noor M. Alqudah, Hasan Mohidat, Abdelwahab Aleshawi, Wedad Al-Dolat, Ali Alshami

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Bidirectional causality of physical exercise in retinal neuroprotection by Stephen K. Agadagba, Suk-yu Yau, Ying Liang, Kristine Dalton, Benjamin Thompson

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The Psychological Challenge of Late-Life Vision Impairment: Concepts, Findings, and Practical Implications by Hans-Werner Wahl

“…The intention is to summarize the body of evidence speaking to the psychological challenges faced by visually impaired older adults, as well as their coping efforts. …”
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Les Souffleurs d’images by Joan Despéramont

“…The Souffleurs d’Images programme was developed by the Centre Recherche Théâtre Handicap in 2008 to make the performing arts accessible to the visually impaired students of its drama school, Acte 21. …”
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Insights into audio-visual temporal perception in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia by Monica Gori, Maria Bianca Amadeo, Andrea Escelsior, Davide Esposito, Alberto Inuggi, Riccardo Guglielmo, Luis Polena, Juxhin Bode, Beatriz Pereira da Silva, Mario Amore, Gianluca Serafini

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Humor as a window into generative AI bias by Roger Saumure, Julian De Freitas, Stefano Puntoni

“…., race and gender) are less likely to be represented after making an image funnier, stereotyped groups for less politically sensitive traits (i.e., older, visually impaired, and people with high body weight groups) are more likely to be represented.…”
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Design and Simulation of An Electronic Walking Stick For The Blind. by Naherya, Daphine

“…Physical movement is a challenge for visually impaired persons. The walking stick which was used by them is very limited in its range of detection and it is only used to detect the object which is near to the user. …”
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A Case Report of Purtscher-Like Retinopathy Secondary to Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in an Immunocompromised Patient by Alastair David Bezzina, Isaac Bertuello

“…Unfortunately, the patient did not respond to a trial of corticosteroid treatment and subsequently became severely visually impaired. This case report expands the aetiological spectrum behind PLR and helps portray the disease process which, in some cases, leads to severe ischaemic sequelae.…”
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Development of a System to Assist Automatic Translation of Hand-Drawn Maps into Tactile Graphics and Its Usability Evaluation by Jianjun Chen, Noboru Takagi

“…Tactile graphics are images that use raised surfaces so that a visually impaired person can feel them. Tactile maps are used by blind and partially sighted people when navigating around an environment, and they are also used prior to a visit for orientation purposes. …”
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COGEVIS: A New Scale to Evaluate Cognition in Patients with Visual Deficiency by Claire Meyniel, Dalila Samri, Farah Stefano, Joel Crevoisier, Florence Bonté, Raffaella Migliaccio, Laure Delaby, Anne Bertrand, Marie Odile Habert, Bruno Dubois, Bahram Bodaghi, Stéphane Epelbaum

“…This study introduces a new short test to screen for cognitive impairment in visually impaired patients.…”
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Three Cases with Visual Hallucinations following Combined Ocular and Occipital Damage by Bogusław Paradowski, Edyta Kowalczyk, Justyna Chojdak-Łukasiewicz, Aleksandra Loster-Niewińska, Monika Służewska-Niedźwiedź

“…Charles Bonnet syndrome is an underrecognized disease that involves visual hallucinations in visually impaired patients. We present the cases of three patients who experienced complex visual hallucinations following various pathomechanisms. …”
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A Robotic Guide for Blind People. Part 1. A Multi-National Survey of the Attitudes, Requirements and Preferences of Potential End-Users by Marion A. Hersh, Michael A. Johnson

“…This paper reports the results of a multi-national survey in several different countries on the attitudes, requirements and preferences of blind and visually impaired people for a robotic guide. The survey is introduced by a brief overview of existing work on robotic travel aids and other mobile robotic devices. …”
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MoNetViT: an efficient fusion of CNN and transformer technologies for visual navigation assistance with multi query attention by Liliek Triyono, Liliek Triyono, Rahmat Gernowo, Prayitno

“…Aruco markers are crucial for navigation in complex indoor environments, especially for those with visual impairments. Traditional CNNs handle image segmentation well, but transformers excel at capturing long-range dependencies, essential for machine vision tasks. …”
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Eye Donation: Awareness, Knowledge, Willingness, and Barriers among Paramedical and Allied Health Science Students at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in South India by Aimanfatima Kacheri, Rekha Mudhol, Sanjeev Chougule, Rhema Reny, Sagarika Kamath, Rajesh Kamath

“…Background. Visual impairments have physical, emotional, social, and economical consequences and are a crucial element influencing one's quality of life. …”
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The interactive use of augmented reality for educating the elderly on common age-related eye disease by Yuet Yi Hung, Wang Yee Chu, Juming Jiang, Wing Yiu Yeung, Wing Huen Yan, Tai On Kwok, Yau Kei Chan

“…Methods An AR-based education workshop was designed for the elderly to understand the major visual symptoms of several eye diseases and experience the challenges faced by visually impaired people. The effectiveness of the workshop was assessed by conducting pre- and post-activity surveys to measure the knowledge acquisition of the participants from this workshop. …”
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Assessment of the Association between In Vivo Corneal Morphogeometrical Changes and Keratoconus Eyes with Severe Visual Limitation by J. S. Velázquez, F. Cavas, J. Alió del Barrio, D. G. Fernández-Pacheco, J. Alió

“…This observational case series study evaluated new objective indices in 50 healthy and 30 KC corneas, following a validated protocol created by our research group, which has been previously used for diagnosis and characterization of KC in asymptomatic (preclinical) and mild visually impaired eyes. Results show a statistically significant reduction of corneal volume and an increase of total corneal area in the severe KC group, being anterior and posterior corneal surfaces minimum thickness points the best correlated parameters, although with no discrimination between groups. …”
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