Melanie Ailin Basnak, Veronica Perez-Schuster, Gabriela Hermitte, and Martin Beron de AstradaMany animal species take advantage of polarization vision for vital tasks such as orientation, communication, and contrast enhancement. Previous studies have …
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Polarized object detection in crabs: a two-channel system [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Posted by Basnak, M. A., Perez-Schuster, V., Hermitte, G., de Astrada, M. B. on April 12th, 2018
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No Comments »Doctors discover 27 contacts stuck in woman’s eye
Posted by Chuck Bednar on July 18th, 2017
Doctors who were preparing a 67-year-old woman for routine cataract surgery recently were in for quite a surprise when they discovered the actual cause of her vision problems – a congealed mass of disposable contact lenses that she had reportedly been wearing for decades. According to NPR and BBC News, surgeons at Solihull Hospital in […]
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Posted in Health Tags: association, Contact, Contact Lenses, Contacts, contacts stuck, discomfort, Discover, disposable, Doctors, doctors discover, experience, explained, felt much better, further, having, infections, irritation, jaynes, lenses, morjaria, Optometrists, Optometry, optometry today, patient, People, prevent, problems, she felt much, smith jaynes, surgery, the case study, thought, told optometry today, vision, wearing No Comments »The unusual eyes of Xenos peckii (Strepsiptera: Xenidae) have green- and UV{-}-sensitive photoreceptors [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Posted by James, M., Nandamuri, S. P., Stahl, A., Buschbeck, E. K. on December 14th, 2016
Marisano James, Sri Pratima Nandamuri, Aaron Stahl, and Elke K. Buschbeck
The highly specialized evolution of Strepsiptera has produced one of the most unusual eyes among mature insects, perhaps in line with their extremely complex and challenging lif…
Posted in Biology, Science General Tags: classes, Evolution, Insects, peckii, Photoreceptors, question, spectral, Strepsiptera, unusual, vision, xenos peckii No Comments »Body for practice surgery even bleeds fake blood
Posted by Mark Michaud-Rochester on November 18th, 2016
New artificial organs and human anatomy mimic the real thing, even up to the point of […]
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Posted in Biology, Health, Science General Tags: 8221 says ghazi, 8221 says stone, adjacent, allows, Anatomy, artificial, beginning, Biomedical, Biomedical Engineering, bleeding, bleeds, bleeds fake blood, Blood Vessels, clamping, complete, complex, complex cases, computer, Consistency, create, created, creating, department, designs, double, engineering, entire, even bleeds fake, example, experience, for practice surgery, guiding, guiding instruments, healthy, Human Anatomy, hydrogel, Images, inside, inside until, Instances, instruments, interest, Kidney, laparoscopic, lifelike, location, medical, Medical Students, Models, operating, operation, Organs, Pandora, partial, patient, patients, perform, pilots, possible, practice, practice surgery, practice surgery even, printer, printing, procedure, procedures, process, product, realistic, really, remove, removing, replicate, robotic, rochester, scans into computer, simulated, Simulation, Simulations, structures, students, surgeon, surgeons, surgery, surgery even bleeds, surgical, the operating room, the real thing, there really, there will always, these instances, these models, these simulations, tissue, Trainees, training, university, Urology, vessels, vision No Comments »Open Writing is the Necessary Precursor to Open Science
Posted by Ninna Meier and Charlotte Wegener on November 18th, 2016
The new Open Writing project aims to open academic writing practice to reflections and experiments with the actual process of writing, with a view to creating new, open research products that have an impact on peers, public and policymakers.
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