Vision

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Kinds of Vision

  • alternative vision
  • binocular vision
  • biotec vision
  • blurred vision
  • central vision
  • clear vision
  • color vision
  • colour vision
  • computer vision
  • cone vision
  • digital vision
  • direct vision
  • functional vision
  • future vision
  • global vision
  • good vision
  • human vision
  • impaired vision
  • low vision
  • near vision
  • new vision
  • normal vision
  • particular vision
  • peripheral vision
  • poor vision
  • reduced vision
  • rhetorical vision
  • shared vision
  • strategic vision
  • tunnel vision
  • useful vision

  • Terms modified by Vision

  • vision aid
  • vision defect
  • vision deficiency
  • vision impairment
  • vision loss
  • vision problem
  • vision rehabilitation
  • vision research
  • vision screening
  • vision system
  • vision test
  • vision testing

  • Selected Abstracts


    ENDOSCOPIC NECROSECTOMY UNDER DIRECT VISION AFTER ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED CYSTGASTROSTOMY FOR ORGANIZED PANCREATIC NECROSIS

    DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPY, Issue 1 2008
    Takeshi Hisa
    A 56-year-old man was referred for an enlarging pancreatic pseudocyst that developed after severe acute pancreatitis with gallstones. Abdominal ultrasound showed a huge cystic lesion with a large amount of solid high echoic components. Arterial phase contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan revealed arteries across the cystic cavity. Stents were placed after endoscopic ultrasound-guided cystgastrostomy; however, the stents were obstructed by necrotic debris, and secondary infection of the pseudocyst occurred. Therefore, the cystgastrostomy was dilated by a dilation balloon, and a forward-viewing endoscope was inserted into the cystic cavity. Many vessels and a large amount of necrotic debris existed in the cavity. Under direct vision, all necrotic debris was safely removed using a retrieval net and forceps. One year after this procedure, there was no recurrence. Our case indicates that peripancreatic fat necrosis can cause exposure of vessels across/along the cystic cavity, and blind necrosectomy should be avoided. [source]


    VISION AS REVISION: RANKE AND THE BEGINNING OF MODERN HISTORY

    HISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 4 2007
    J. D. BRAW
    ABSTRACT It is widely agreed that a new conception of history was developed in the early nineteenth century: the past came to be seen in a new light, as did the way of studying the past. This article discusses the nature of this collective revision, focusing on one of its first and most important manifestations: Ranke's 1824 Geschichten der romanischen und germanischen Völker. It argues that, in Ranke's case, the driving force of the revision was religious, and that, subsequently, an understanding of the nature of Ranke's religious attitude is vital to any interpretation of his historical revision. Being aesthetic-experiential rather than conceptual or "positive," this religious element is reflected throughout Ranke's enterprise, in source criticism and in historical representation no less than in the conception of cause and effect in the historical process. These three levels or aspects of the historical enterprise correspond to the experience of the past, and are connected by the essence of the experience: visual perception. The highly individual character of the enterprise, its foundation in sentiments and experiences of little persuasive force that only with difficulty can be brought into language at all, explains the paradoxical nature of the Rankean heritage. On the one hand, Ranke had a great and lasting impact; on the other hand, his approach was never re-utilized as a whole, only in its constituent parts,which, when not in the relationship Ranke had envisioned, took on a new and different character. This also suggests the difference between Ranke's revision and a new paradigm: whereas the latter is an exemplary solution providing binding regulations, the former is unrepeatable. [source]


    FROM MANAGEMENT TO VISION: ISSUES FOR BRITISH CHURCHES NEGOTIATING DECLINE AND CHANGE,

    INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 364 2003
    Simon Barrow
    First page of article [source]


    VISION AND ABILITY TO TAKE MEDICATION

    JOURNAL OF AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY, Issue 5 2006
    Bruce I. Gaynes OD, PharmD
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]


    CORRELATING SHRINKAGE WITH YIELD, WATER CONTENT AND TEXTURE OF PORK HAM BY COMPUTER VISION

    JOURNAL OF FOOD PROCESS ENGINEERING, Issue 3 2005
    CHENG-JIN DU
    ABSTRACT An automatic method for shrinkage evaluation of pork ham was developed using computer vision. First, a sequence of image-processing algorithms was developed to estimate the average diameter, short axis, long axis, perimeter, volume and surface area before and after cooking and cooling. This sequence consisted of three steps, i.e., shape extraction, protrusion deletion and measurement. Based on the estimated shape characteristics, three kinds of shrinkage were evaluated as the percentage change before and after a process, i.e., shrinkages caused by the cooking process, cooling process and total shrinkage during the entire cooking and cooling processes. Then the cooking shrinkage was related to cooking loss; the cooling shrinkage to cooling loss and the total shrinkage to yield, water content and texture. It was found that among the three shrinkages, the cooking shrinkage in volume was the highest with up to 9.36%, and was significantly correlated with cooking loss (r = 0.91). The total shrinkage was highly negatively correlated with water content, and had positive correlations with the texture attributes. However, no significant relationships were found between cooling shrinkage and cooling loss, and between total shrinkage and yield. [source]


    ACTION TRAINING FOR CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP: TWO EVALUATIONS OF STUDIES OF A COMMERCIAL TRAINING MODULE ON INSPIRATIONAL COMMUNICATION OF A VISION

    PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2003
    MICHAEL FRESE
    An action training program that teaches inspirational communication of a vision as part of a training of charismatic leadership for managers is presented (1½ days) and evaluated in 2 studies (N= 25 and N= 22). We used the research design "nonequivalent dependent variable design" (Cook & Campbell, 1979, p, 118) or "internal referencing strategy" (Haccoun & Hamtieux, 1994), which compared the trained behaviors (charismatic inspirational communication) with behaviors that were not trained (public speech) to control for testing and Hawthorne effects. The training had specific positive effects on those behaviors that were trained but not on those variables that were not trained. Good to excellent effect sizes appeared as a result of the training. We suggest that this research design is useful for evaluation of training effects within the constraints of commercial settings and, moreover, we argue that this design is in many ways superior to a nonequivalent nontraining control group design because it controls for testing effects and for effects that otherwise would need a pseudo-training control group. [source]


    THE PLACE OF PICTURING IN SELLARS' SYNOPTIC VISION

    PHILOSOPHICAL FORUM, Issue 3 2007
    STEVEN M. LEVINE
    First page of article [source]


    II,Naomi Eilan ON THE ROLE OF PERCEPTUAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN EXPLAINING THE GOALS AND MECHANISMS OF VISION: A CONVERGENCE ON ATTENTION?

    ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, Issue 1 2006
    Naomi Eilan
    ABSTRACT The strong sensorimotor account of perception gives self-induced movements two constitutive roles in explaining visual consciousness. The first says that self-induced movements are vehicles of visual awareness, and for this reason consciousness ,does not happen in the brain only'. The second says that the phenomenal nature of visual experiences is consists in the action-directing content of vision. In response I suggest, first, that the sense in which visual awareness is active should be explained by appeal to the role of attention in visual consciousness, rather than self-induced movements; and second, that the sense in which perceptual consciousness does not happen in the brain only should be explained by appeal to the relational nature of perceptual consciousness, appeal to which also shows why links with action cannot exhaust phenomenal content. [source]


    EMPATHETIC VISION: LOOKING AT AND WITH A PERFORMATIVE BYZANTINE MINIATURE

    ART HISTORY, Issue 4 2007
    ROBERT S. NELSON
    A Byzantine Gospel Lectionary in Florence contains a detailed description of the liturgical rites on 1 September. The manuscript's illustration for that day is interpreted art historically and then read against that liturgy so as to distinguish the heuristic processes of the discipline from the empathetic vision of the person for whom the manuscript was made and used: the Patriarch of Constantinople. The display that art history assumes and creates is contrasted with a performative spectacle of the Middle Ages. [source]


    The challenge of uncorrected refractive error: driving the agenda of the Durban Declaration on refractive error and service development

    CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPTOMETRY, Issue 3 2010
    Kovin S Naidoo BSc BOptom MPH OD
    The purpose of this article is to highlight the challenge of uncorrected refractive error globally, as well as to discuss recent advocacy successes and innovative programs designed to address the need for broader refractive error service development, particularly in developing countries. The World Health Organization's VISION 2020: The Right to Sight program first posed the challenge to national governments to give priority to strategies and resources targeted towards avoidable causes of blindness and visual impairment, so that these unnecessary forms of blindness or visual impairment can be eliminated globally by the year 2020. The blindness prevention community is challenged to increase in scale its initiatives, which support the attainment of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight goals primarily and the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals indirectly. The Durban Declaration on Refractive Error and Service Development was the outcome of a meeting of eye-care professionals, researchers, governments, civil society and industry in March 2007 and still stands as a guiding document to the blindness prevention community for the elimination of avoidable blindness due to uncorrected refractive error. [source]


    THREE VISIONS OF HISTORY AND THEORY

    HISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 2 2007
    Charles Tilly
    First page of article [source]


    FUTURE VISIONS OF THE BLACK CAUCUS OF SRCD

    MONOGRAPHS OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 1 2006
    Melvin N. Wilson
    First page of article [source]


    PANOPTIC VISIONS OF LONDON: POSSESSING THE METROPOLIS

    ART HISTORY, Issue 2 2009
    DANA ARNOLD
    The role of sight in the experience of the metropolis as a cultural artefact had a special significance in the opening years of the nineteenth century. The visual register of the city was at once static , the panoptic vision , and fluid , the mobile and subjective gaze of the flâneur/euse. This scrutiny of the city as cultural capital operated on several levels. I want to demonstrate the complexities of the interaction of city, consumer/viewer and the role/agency of the textual/visual interlocutor. Any exploration of London as cultural capital must take into account this broader pan European phenomenon. The aim here is not to produce a comparative history, but rather to benefit from the specific points of contact between London and its near neighbour Paris as regards the consumption of the city and its emergence as cultural capital by a range of publics. My frame is the Benjaminian notion of the city as fragment or miniature as played out in his Arcades Project [source]


    Adaptive Logarithmic Mapping For Displaying High Contrast Scenes

    COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM, Issue 3 2003
    F. Drago
    We propose a fast, high quality tone mapping technique to display high contrast images on devices with limited dynamicrange of luminance values. The method is based on logarithmic compression of luminance values, imitatingthe human response to light. A bias power function is introduced to adaptively vary logarithmic bases, resultingin good preservation of details and contrast. To improve contrast in dark areas, changes to the gamma correctionprocedure are proposed. Our adaptive logarithmic mapping technique is capable of producing perceptually tunedimages with high dynamic content and works at interactive speed. We demonstrate a successful application of ourtone mapping technique with a high dynamic range video player enabling to adjust optimal viewing conditions forany kind of display while taking into account user preference concerning brightness, contrast compression, anddetail reproduction. Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.3 [Image Processing and Computer Vision]: Image Representation [source]


    Representation of Pseudo Inter-reflection and Transparency by Considering Characteristics of Human Vision

    COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM, Issue 3 2002
    H. Matsuoka
    We have succeeded in developing a quick and fully automated system that can generate photo-realistic 3D CG data based on a real object. A major factor in this success comes from our findings through psychophysical experiments that human observers do not have an accurate idea of what should be actually reflected as inter-reflections on the surface of an object. Taking advantage of this characteristic of human vision, we propose a new inter-reflection representation technique in which inter-reflections are simulated by allowing the same quantity of reflection components as there are in the background to pass through the object. Since inter-reflection and transparency are calculated by the same algorithm, our system can capture 3D CG data from various real objects having a strong inter-reflection, such as plastic and porcelain items or translucent glass and acrylic resin objects. The synthetic images from the 3D CG data generated with this pseudo inter-reflection and transparency look very natural. In addition, the 3D CG data and synthetic images are produced quickly at a lower cost. [source]


    Critical Theory of World Risk Society: A Cosmopolitan Vision

    CONSTELLATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY, Issue 1 2009
    Ulrich Beck
    First page of article [source]


    When business associations and a federal ministry jointly consult civil society: a CSR policy case study on the development of the CSR Austria Guiding Vision

    CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, Issue 5 2008
    Astrid Konrad
    Abstract In 2002, Austrian business organizations and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour decided to raise the awareness of CSR in Austria by formulating a CSR guiding vision for Austrian businesses after consulting a broad variety of stakeholders. This paper describes the development of the ,CSR Austria Guiding Vision' from 2003, and it gives a brief overview of other public CSR initiatives launched in Austria since then. Since the authors were involved drafting the CSR Austria Guiding Vision as consultants, the paper describes success factors, lessons learned and recommendations relevant for other large-scale stakeholder dialogues on CSR from an insider perspective. Overall, we conclude that a clear idea about the structure, the type and the rules of the stakeholder involvement (conceptual issues), in combination with a timely, honest and empathic approach towards stakeholders (procedural issues), are important success factors for any stakeholder dialogue. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [source]


    Big Dream/Small Hope: A Peace Vision

    CROSSCURRENTS, Issue 2 2008
    Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi
    [source]


    A Research Vision for Museums

    CURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 3 2010
    John W. Jacobsen
    Management has failed our mission by focusing on outputs like attendance numbers, and audience researchers have failed management by not shedding light on the connections between the pleasure of learning and attendance,or, if you will, between individual gains and a museum's public value. This research vision for museums looks at how you can make that connection and save museums in their hour of need. [source]


    The commonly used marker ELAV is transiently expressed in neuroblasts and glial cells in the Drosophila embryonic CNS

    DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS, Issue 12 2007
    Christian Berger
    Abstract Glial cells in the Drosophila embryonic nervous system can be monitored with the marker Reversed-polarity (Repo), whereas neurons lack Repo and express the RNA-binding protein ELAV (Embryonic Lethal, Abnormal Vision). Since the first description of the ELAV protein distribution in 1991 (Robinow and White), it is believed that ELAV is an exclusive neuronal and postmitotic marker. Looking at ELAV expression, we unexpectedly observed that, in addition to neurons, ELAV is transiently expressed in embryonic glial cells. Furthermore, it is transiently present in the proliferating longitudinal glioblast, and it is transcribed in embryonic neuroblasts. Likewise, elav -Gal4 lines, which are generally used as postmitotic neuronal driver lines, show expression in neural progenitor cells and nearly all embryonic glial cells. Thus, in the embryo, elav can no longer be considered an exclusive marker or driver for postmitotic neurons. elav loss-of-function mutants show no obvious effects on the number and pattern of embryonic glia. Developmental Dynamics 236:3562,3568, 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


    Vision in children with hydrocephalus

    DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE & CHILD NEUROLOGY, Issue 10 2006
    Susann Andersson MD
    Hydrocephalus in children has many aetiologies, and can cause multiple ophthalmic and visual disorders. This study sets out to detect and quantify visual and visuoperceptual dysfunction in children who have received surgical treatment for hydrocephalus with and without myelomeningocele, and to relate the results to the associated diagnoses and results from a comparison group. Seventy-five school-aged children (41 males, 34 females) with surgically-treated hydrocephalus and 140 comparison children (76 males, 64 females) matched for age and sex underwent comprehensive ophthalmologic examination. Median age at examination was 9 years and 4 months (range 7y 4mo- 12y 10mo). Visual function deficits were identified in 83% (62/75) of the children with hydrocephalus. Visual impairment (binocular visual acuity <0.3) was found in 15% (11/73; comparison group 0%) but in none with myelomeningocele. Strabismus was found in 69% (51/74; comparison group 4% [5/140], p<0.001), and refractive errors were found in 67% (47/70; comparison group 20% [28/140], p<0.001). Cognitive visual dysfunction was identified in 59% (38/64; comparison group 3% [4/140], p<0.001). These disorders were identified in various combinations and comprised impaired ability to plan movement through depth (e.g. going down a stair), impaired simultaneous perception, impaired perception of movement, impaired orientation, and (least frequently) impaired recognition. In this study, children with hydrocephalus associated with myelomeningocele were least commonly affected. Visual disorders were most frequent in those with epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and/or cognitive disability. [source]


    Comparative effects of pH and Vision® herbicide on two life stages of four anuran amphibian species,

    ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY & CHEMISTRY, Issue 4 2004
    Andrea N. Edginton
    Abstract Vision®, a glyphosate-based herbicide containing a 15% (weight:weight) polyethoxylated tallow amine surfactant blend, and the concurrent factor of pH were tested to determine their interactive effects on early life-stage anurans. Ninety-six-hour laboratory static renewal studies, using the embryonic and larval life stages (Gosner 25) of Rana clamitans, R. pipiens, Bufo americanus, and Xenopus laevis, were performed under a central composite rotatable design. Mortality and the prevalence of malformations were modeled using generalized linear models with a profile deviance approach for obtaining confidence intervals. There was a significant (p < 0.05) interaction of pH with Vision concentration in all eight models, such that the toxicity of Vision was amplified by elevated pH. The surfactant is the major toxic component of Vision and is hypothesized, in this study, to be the source of the pH interaction. Larvae of B. americanus and R. clamitans were 1.5 to 3.8 times more sensitive than their corresponding embryos, whereas X. laevis and R. pipiens larvae were 6.8 to 8.9 times more sensitive. At pH values above 7.5, the Vision concentrations expected to kill 50% of the test larvae in 96-h (96-h lethal concentration [LC50]) were predicted to be below the expected environmental concentration (EEC) as calculated by Canadian regulatory authorities. The EEC value represents a worst-case scenario for aerial Vision application and is calculated assuming an application of the maximum label rate (2.1 kg acid equivalents [a.e.]/ha) into a pond 15 cm in depth. The EEC of 1.4 mg a.e./L (4.5 mg/L Vision) was not exceeded by 96-h LC50 values for the embryo test. The larvae of the four species were comparable in sensitivity. Field studies should be completed using the more sensitive larval life stage to test for Vision toxicity at actual environmental concentrations. [source]


    Sensorimotor memory and grip force control: does grip force anticipate a self-produced weight change when drinking with a straw from a cup?

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, Issue 10 2003
    Dennis A. Nowak
    Abstract We examined whether self-generated weight changes are anticipated by adequate grip force adjustments when repeatedly lifting an instrumented manipulandum. Subjects lifted a cup filled with 500 mL of water prior to and following drinking two portions of water with a straw without touching it. One half of the subjects drank from and lifted an uncovered cup receiving constant visual information about its filling level and the other half of the subjects drank from a covered cup without such visual feedback. During the lifts immediately following the drinking procedures, grip force scaling was erroneously programmed for the heavier weight of the preceding lift as was obvious from an inadequately high rate of grip force development. Vision had only a minor influence on the rate of grip force increase. The influence of vision on the scaling of peak grip force was more pronounced. More accurate force scaling was obtained with an increasing number of lifts performed under each weight condition, indicating an ongoing force adjustment process probably based on sensory feedback. We conclude that self-generation of a change in the weight of an object to be lifted is not, in itself, sufficient to elicit a predictive grip force output. Rather, accurate feedback information associated with the self-generated weight change is essential to update internal models related to the mechanical object properties. This assumption was confirmed in pilot experiments; when subjects lifted the cup after having poured water from it, they accurately scaled their fingertip force to the self-produced weight change. Here, direct sensory feedback from the grasping fingers could signal the weight change and update internal models while pouring water from the cup. Our data support the hypothesis that the sensorimotor system planning and processing predictive fingertip force can operate independently of higher-level cognitive and perceptual systems. [source]


    An Examination of Clothing Issues and Physical Limitations in the Product Development Process

    FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 1 2010
    Katherine Carroll
    The purpose of this study was to explore physical limitations and clothing problems among working women with physical disabilities to determine whether types of physical limitations are linked to specific clothing problems. The sample included 117 working women with a variety of disabilities. Principle Components Factor Analysis and Multiple Regression were used to analyze the data. Three distinct factors emerged to represent clothing problems (called Design, Materials Performance, and Dressing) and four distinct factors emerged to represent physical limitations (called Limbs/Outer Extremities, Central Core/Torso, Central Nervous System, and Intellect, Vision and Hearing). Regression analysis showed that the physical limitations impact each of the three clothing factors. The study extends research by focusing on an underserved market segment and providing the apparel industry with a potential method of addressing the needs of that market. The study also contributes to interdisciplinary research by further developing an Inclusive Design model for apparel product development. [source]


    The Making and Unmaking of Body Problems in Seventeen Magazine, 1992,2003

    FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 4 2005
    Leslie Winfield Ballentine
    This interpretive study explored body-related content Seventeen magazine, a fashion and beauty magazine for adolescent girls, from 1992 to 2003 (inclusive). The authors' work was guided by symbolic convergence theory, which illuminates how rhetorical visions within media can contribute to audience perceptions of reality. Analyses revealed two main rhetorical visions within Seventeen: (1) the making of body problems and (2) the unmaking of body problems. Content related to Rhetorical Vision 1 simultaneously constructed a narrow constellation of body characteristics as ideal and problematized bodies that deviated from this ideal. Content related to Rhetorical Vision 2 provided three different mechanisms for "dealing with" body problems: (a) controlling the body through bodywork regimens, (b) controlling the body through consumption, and (c) staging resistance against dominant cultural discourses about the body (e.g., the thin ideal). Findings suggest that rhetorical visions presented within Seventeen may send mixed messages to adolescents about their bodies. [source]


    WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST AWARD FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE ADDRESS

    FAMILY COURT REVIEW, Issue 2 2009
    Hon. Jonathan Lippman
    The William H. Rehnquist Award is one of the most celebrated judicial honors in the country. It is given each year to a state court judge who demonstrates the "highest level of judicial excellence, integrity, fairness, and professional ethics." The 2008 recipient, Jonathan Lippman, was recently appointed and confirmed as Chief Judge of the State of New York. Chief Judge Lippman was previously the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division of the First Judicial Department of the New York State Supreme Court. He was appointed New York's Chief Administrative Judge by Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye and served from January 1996 to May 2007 and was responsible for the operation of a court system with a $2.4 billion budget, 1300 state-paid judges, 2300 town and village judges, and 16,000 nonjudicial personnel. Among his numerous professional activities, Chief Judge Lippman served as president of the Conference of State Court Administrators from 2005 to 2006 and was the vice-chair of the National Center for State Courts from 2005 to 2006, where he was a member of the Board of Directors from 2003 to 2007. During his tenure, Chief Judge Lippman has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including the 2006 Fund For Modern Courts Cyrus R. Vance Tribute for Vision, Integrity and Dedication to the Fair Administration of Justice Personified by Cyrus R. Vance (November 27, 2006); the New York County Lawyers' Association Conspicuous Service Award in Recognition of Many Years of Outstanding Public Service (September 28, 2006); and the Award for Excellence in Public Service of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Attorneys in Public Service (January 24, 2006). Chief Judge Lippman received a Bachelor of Arts in Government and International Relations from New York University, Washington Square College, where he graduated cum laude in 1965. He also received his J.D. from New York University in 1968. Below is the speech he delivered after accepting the William H. Rehnquist Award from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts. [source]


    Delivering the Vision: Public Service for the Information Society and the Knowledge Economy

    HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, Issue 2 2003
    M. Milner
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]


    AHRQ's FY 2005 Budget Request: New Mission, New Vision

    HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, Issue 3 2004
    Agency for Healthcare Research, Carolyn M. Clancy Director, Quality
    First page of article [source]


    Higher Criticism and Higher Education at the University of Chicago: William Rainey Harper's Vision of Religion in the Research University1

    HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2008
    Michael Lee
    First page of article [source]


    The Third World Water Forum: to translate visions into concrete actions and commitments

    HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES, Issue 11 2002
    Hideaki Oda
    Abstract Water is vital for the life and health of people and ecosystems and a basic requirement for the development of countries, but many people lack access to adequate and safe water to meet their most basic needs. Water resources, and the related ecosystems, are now under threat from pollution, unsustainable use, climate change, and many other forces. The World Water Forum series has been likened to a series of stepping stones towards the solution of the world's pressing water problems. Each step constitutes a new phase. The third World Water Forum takes up the World Water Vision created at the second World Water Forum in The Hague in 2000, and sets out to see that vision realized in concrete actions. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]