Study aims to improve sex education for deaf pupils
British parents are to be quizzed about their children's sex education in a unique study that hopes to improve the way the subject is taught to deaf pupils. The University of Manchester's Audiology and Deafness team is recruiting parents of both deaf and hearing primary school children for its ...British Pupils Opt for Online Tuition from India
In the latest example of growing online interaction between Britain and India, British pupils are paying nearly 10 pounds an hour for online tuition on various subjects from teachers based in India.// More than 3,000 pupils here have been receiving such one-to-one tuition using Internet teleph...University of Hawaii at Manoa professors co-author adolescent obesity study
...olescents and their friends, even after controlling for confounding factors such as race, sex and age. While these correlations may be indicative of pupils causing their peers to gain weight, the authors provide evidence that a substantial part of the correlations is a consequence of sorting on BMI. In...One in five girls in upper secondary school suffers from school burnout
...and higher education, upper secondary school is a particularly challenging stage for many young people. Success-oriented female upper secondary school pupils are at the greatest risk: up to 20 cent of them suffer from school burnout. Burnout is a phenomenon to be taken seriously, as it can lead to depressio...Westminster Safety Disagreement Highlights Risk in Schools
...ay. The key, of course, to this perspective is the phrase "if used properly", and the by now wholly questionable perception that teachers - and pupils - do not come into contact with asbestos. Notes to Editors: Hope for those exposed: Asbestos diseases R&D network As the deba...World Glaucoma Day Set For March 12, 2009
...est way to control the disease. So, if you fall into one of the high-risk groups for the disease, make sure to have your eyes examined through dilated pupils every two years by an eye care professional. If you are being treated for glaucoma, be sure to take your glaucoma medicine every day. See your ey...School-based physical activity: Has benefits even if it doesn't help lose weight
...hould make spaces in their timetables to create environments that encourage pupils to engage in physical activity each day as well as having an ethos that enc...e to vigorous activity each week. "Schools have great opportunities to help pupils learn how to promote health and minimise the risk of acquiring a chronic di...BIOM 3 Non-Contact Panoramic Wide-Angle Viewing System
Description:...ct fundus observation. Under the BIOM 3 the eye may be rotated freely so that the extreme periphery can be easily viewed. Even surgery through small pupils is possible. The SDI erects the inverted image of the BIOM 3. Several different lenses are available for different viewing options including...Procyon P3000 Binocular Pupillometer
Description:...adic eye-movements can also be captured and measured while the patient reads a block of text. Different targets can be viewed by the patient as their pupils are measured binocularly, simaltaneously and dynamically. New features will be invaluable to refractive surgeons, who need to measure the pupil w...Procyon P2000SA Dynamic Binocular Pupillometer
Description:...upilFit software which automatically does a best fit mathematical analysis of the pupil images, producing accurate, repeatable measurements of the two pupils instantaneously. The fitted circle is shown as a dotted line on the images giving proof that the measurement ismeaningful, and not just a number outpu...Autorefractometer Accuref 8001
Description:...uces superb colorful display of the icons for easier identification to select your desired choices for measurement. Allows you to measure much smaller pupils than conventional units and 3 step Target light adjuster ensure accurate results....Bright lights, not-so-big pupils
A team of Johns Hopkins neuroscientists has worked out how some newly discovered light sensors in the eye detect light and communicate with the brain. The report appears online this week in Nature . These light sensors are a small number of nerve cells in the retina that contain melanopsin mo...Girls have superior sense of taste to boys
...r eating habits and fussiness over food. And both pupils and teachers have taken the experiment very seriou...s from the many primary and secondary schools: the pupils and teachers have been very thorough and accurate.... finer sense of taste than men. "We also asked the pupils to count 'taste buds' or organs of taste on the to...Singapore's BIOPOLIS and FUSIONOPOLIS on stage in Boston this week
...noon at the Fulbright Academy conference, an expert on Singapores educational system will speak about the school programs that contribute to Singapore pupils top ranking internationally in science and math. The Asian city-states scientific and educational initiatives under A*STAR (Agency for Science, Tec...Five new technologies that promise to transform medicine
...use of miniature telescopes that restore vision for patients with degenerative eye disease. The telescopes are powered by sunlight passing through the pupils to microscopic solar battery panels attached to the retinas. These scenarios illustrate potential clinical applications of technologies currently...Alaska seal pup diet may hold key to decline of population
... Measuring bone growth to see if one group grows more quickly. Monitoring the concentrations of cortisol, in response to a stressor that dilates the pupils and increases heart beat. Animals in the low fat group may take a longer time to recover. Comparing their data with observations and tests on seals i...Female butterflies go for sparkle -- not size -- when choosing to mate
... rather narrowly defined features, such as eyespot pupils that measure approximately half of one millimeter....ng resulted when the researchers painted the white pupils in male eyespots on the dorsal side with a plant e...ge from a female's preference for relatively small pupils in this species to the likely female preference fo...