"Addressing vision loss alone would close 11% of the current gap in health".
Speculative scenarios like the latter are an Atwood stock-in-trade, of course; some of her best long-form work addresses visions of the future that incorporate her personal fears regarding our collective environmental irresponsibility.
However, three well-conducted randomised controlled trials have failed to show a reduction in falls using an intervention that only addressed vision-specific factors; 8 10 these findings suggested that addressing poor VA alone does not appear effective in preventing falls.
If these things that were happening now were carried into the future, what would that future look like?" The protagonist of The Swan Book is a mute Indigenous girl called Oblivia, who Wright offers as a representation of the voicelessness of most Aboriginal people when it comes to being able to talk about and address their vision for the future.
Scientific publishing should be a key part of the semantic revolution, but it has so far completely failed to address the vision.
A significant question that arises is the preparedness of mining engineering education in Africa to address the vision of the mine-of-the-future in relation to these four focus areas.
The system must address multiple vision tasks of various levels such as segmentation, representation or characterization, analysis and monitoring of the movement to allow the construction of a robust representation of their environment and interpret the elements of the scene.
The China Center for Health Development report is a signal that the country's optical industry must improve its quality and professional standards in order to address a vision problem within its population that is expected only to continue growing.
An effective programme to address avoidable vision loss will generate cost savings, as, for example, the rates of falls, fractures, motor vehicle accidents and conditions such as depression attributable to low vision are reduced.
