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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMany citizen science projects depend on colour vision. Examples include classification of soil or water types and biological monitoring. However, up to 1 in 11 participants are colour blind. We simulate the impact of...
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From:Nature (Vol. 461, Issue 7265) Peer-ReviewedRed-green colour blindness, which results from the absence of either the long-(L) or the middle-(M) wavelength-sensitive visual photopigments, is the most common single locus genetic disorder. Here we explore the...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 80, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedOver 7 million people worldwide go blind every year, it is estimated, and 180 million people are thought to be visually disabled. World Sight Day, On 10 October, was organized by VISION 2020, a joint initiative of WHO,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThis paper employs uniform color space to analyze relations in dichromacy (protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia). Fifty percent or less of dichromats represent the classical reduction form of trichromacy, where one of...
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From:Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Zodinliana. Ngente, Baliram. Jadav, Syed. Aafaque, Abhijit. Patil, Rajtilak. Govindarajulu, Prabu. Muthusamy, J. Babu, C. Swarnalatha, Abhishek. Nayyar PURPOSE: Color blindness is one of the potential...
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From:B'Or Ha'Torah (Vol. 21) Peer-ReviewedI. HALAKHIC BACKGROUND The Mishnah in tractate Niddah mentions five types of menstrual blood considered tamey (ritually impure): Red, black, similar to corner of crocus, similar to earth waters, and similar to...
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From:Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Mary. Ugalahi, Oluyemi. Fasina, Olufunmilola. Ogun, Benedictus. Ajayi Aim: The aim was to determine the prevalence and pattern of congenital colour vision deficiency among secondary school students in Ibadan,...
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From:Ophthalmology Times (Vol. 43, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedIn 1997, a book published by neurologist Oliver Sacks, MD, "The Island of the Colorblind," revealed an unusual trait in the inhabitants of the small Micronesian island of Pingelap--they were born completely colorblind....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAim To validate the reference ranges proposed by the manufacturer of the Oculus HMC Anomaloscope MR for Rayleigh and Moreland tests in healthy young adults. Method The manual Rayleigh (red-green) and the Moreland...
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From:Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Vol. 69, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedByline: Sruthi. Krishnamurthy, Subhiksha. Rangavittal, Ambika. Chandrasekar, Anuradha. Narayanan Purpose: Impact of color vision deficiency (CVD) on activities at school and productivity at work and consequential...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground Systemic risk has received much more awareness after the excessive risk taking by major financial instituations pushed the world's financial system into what many considered a state of near systemic...
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From:Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal (Vol. 1, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCooper, R., & Jordan, W. J. (2003). Cultural Issues in Comprehensive School Reform. Urban Education, 38(4), pp. 380-397. This article provides an overview of past and current reforms in education and their inability...
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From:British Journal of Ophthalmology (Vol. 85, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedVision 2020 The World Heath Organization and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness in 1999 jointly launched "Vision 2020--the right to sight." This ambitious programme, to eliminate unnecessary...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedColor vision deficiency (CVD) affects more than 4% of the population and leads to a different visual perception of colors. Though this has been known for decades, colormaps with many colors across the visual spectra are...
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From:Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Sanjeev. Mittal, Sunita. Mittal, Neeraj. Saraswat, Surekha. Kishore, Ajai. Agrawal, Anupam. Singh, Ramanuj. Samanta, Yogesh. Bahurupi Purpose: To estimate prevalence of common ocular morbidities including color...
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From:Ethnic Studies Review (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA commentary on the Black Lives Matter movement's influence on France's own debate over the idea of colorblindness within its universalist national project and the way in which the concept obscures the reality of racial...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDeficits in color vision and related retinal changes hold promise as early screening biomarkers in patients with Alzheimer's disease. This study aimed to determine a cut-off score that can screen for Alzheimer's dementia...
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From:Nature (Vol. 461, Issue 7265) Peer-ReviewedEveryday tasks such as telling whether a steak is well done or spotting sunburn can be next to impossible for people with red-green colour blindness. Now Jay and Maureen Neitz, a husband-and-wife research team at the...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 26, Issue 15)Byline: Caroline Bermudez Most philanthropists pick a cause to give money to. In the case of Gordon Gund, he built one. The venture capitalist last month awarded $50-million to Foundation Fighting Blindness, the...
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From:Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBesides the diagnosis, follow-up and treatment of some ophthalmic pathologies, color vision examination is used to determine the eligibility for certain professions. Color vision is affected by factors, such as genetic...