Background Contemporary data for causes of vision impairment and blindness form an
important basis of recommendations in public health policies. Refreshment of the Global Vision …

Background Global and regional prevalence estimates for blindness and vision impairment
are important for the development of public health policies. We aimed to provide global …

Before revised World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP)
guidelines on the detection of anthelmintic resistance can be produced, validation of …

Background To contribute to the WHO initiative, VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, an
assessment of global vision impairment in 2020 and temporal change is needed. We aimed to …

Background Within a surveillance of the prevalence and causes of vision impairment in high-income
regions and Central/Eastern Europe, we update figures through 2015 and forecast …

The importance of strike-slip faulting was recognized near the turn of the century, chiefly from
investigations of surficial offsets associated with major earthquakes in New Zealand, Japan…

The burgeoning surge of research on polymers from renewable resources1 is a direct
reflection of the growing concern about the dwindling of fossilized organic reserves, ie, the …

Discovery of the presence of brown adipose tissue (BAT) in newborn babies and adult
humans, especially constitutively active brown fat or inducible beige fat, has led to the …

Polyesters from renewable resources are an expanding area with a burgeoning scientific
activity, nevertheless little has been reviewed about this particular class of polymers. The …

Key limitations of the colloidal semiconductor nanorods that have been reported so far are a
significant distribution of lengths and diameters as well as the presence of irregular shapes …