• Majority surgeons preferred AM for anterior segment procedures and complicated situations like small pupil, corneal oedema and surgical surprise(s). (bmj.com)
  • Horner Syndrome Horner syndrome affects one side of the face, causing the eyelid to droop, the pupil to become small (constricted), and sweating to decrease. (merckmanuals.com)
  • These pathways carry nerve impulses to the pupil and to the muscles that control the eye and eyelid. (merckmanuals.com)
  • Thus, people with nervous system disorders that affect the pupil often also have a drooping eyelid, double vision, and/or visibly misaligned eyes. (merckmanuals.com)
  • Horner syndrome refers to the combination of a constricted pupil, drooping eyelid, and loss of sweating around the affected eye. (merckmanuals.com)
  • On the person's affected side their pupil is small, the eyelid is drooping and the person's iris is lighter. (disabled-world.com)
  • Handles ptosis (drooping) of the eyelid - entire pupil does not need to be visible. (askjan.org)
  • Pupils get larger (dilate) in dim light and smaller (constrict) in bright light. (merckmanuals.com)
  • In addition, the pupils of the eyes may be abnormally small (constricted), and they may not enlarge (dilate) in low light. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In addition to the motions possible in the earlier model of Epi, the irises of the eyes can change color and the pupils can dilate and contract. (lu.se)
  • Though Moeller recommended standing when practicing, he shows [5] that some of his pupils, such as concert and jazz band members, opted for sitting. (wikipedia.org)
  • In other words, the little finger grip was not the only grip Moeller recognized when working with his pupils. (wikipedia.org)
  • A telescope operates by collecting light from an astronomical source using a finite-sized aperture-either the entrance pupil of a refractive system or the primary mirror of a reflective one-and bringing the light to a focus on an imaging detector, such as a charge-coupled device (CCD). (nae.edu)
  • Snellen visual acuity was developed at a time when the only possible refractive correction of the optical system of the eye was spherocylindrical glasses and the surgical techniques of treating eye diseases were less advanced. (medscape.com)
  • A wavefront of parallel beams of light enters the eye and is distorted by the refractive error and imperfections of the eye's optical system. (medscape.com)
  • Thus, the pupil/teacher ratio declined in school year 2020-21 by a relatively large 0.5 pupils per teacher, from 15.9 to 15.4 pupils per teacher (figure 1). (ed.gov)
  • The school year 2020-21 pupil/teacher ratio shown in this figure includes only states which reported both membership and FTE teacher counts for SY 2020-21. (ed.gov)
  • Half of the index used in 24/7 Wall St.'s ranking is related to the district's school system itself. (247wallst.com)
  • Data on per pupil spending in 2019 came from the U.S. Census Bureau's Annual Survey of School System Finances and was included in the index. (247wallst.com)
  • Often, homeschoolers operate under the legal fiction that they're running a very small private school. (foxnews.com)
  • again, the public school district, which did nothing, got the per-pupil state funding. (foxnews.com)
  • High school completion rates have risen much faster in high-poverty school systems as opposed to more-affluent ones, and in urban vs. suburban communities. (edweek.org)
  • But the pace of change has been most rapid in places with historically low rates of completion, particularly large, high-poverty, and big-city school systems. (edweek.org)
  • Many of those nongraduates, who disproportionately come from the nation's largest urban school systems, are living in poverty, and most are members of historically disadvantaged minority groups. (edweek.org)
  • Of the nation's 100 largest school systems, Baltimore schools rank third in spending per pupil . (gopusa.com)
  • Grammar school system does not boost grades and could be detrimental to some. (dur.ac.uk)
  • New research involving our Evidence Centre for Education has found no obvious difference in GCSE grades between regions in England who use a selective grammar-school system and those that don't and suggests that the chances of scoring the top GCSE grades are lower in grammar-school areas. (dur.ac.uk)
  • The study, undertaken in collaboration with University College London and Zhejiang University in China, assessed the potential impact of adopting an academically selective school system on overall pupil outcomes. (dur.ac.uk)
  • The team studied exam results from across England and compared the grades of pupils in local authority areas who adopt a selective, grammar school system, with those that follow a comprehensive (i.e. non-selective) system. (dur.ac.uk)
  • They found that there was no clear evidence of a positive effect of selective school systems on pupil outcomes. (dur.ac.uk)
  • The study found that pupils in selective local authority areas who did not get into grammar school (ie did not pass the entrance exams at the end of primary school), performed slightly worse at GCSE that their counterparts in a comprehensive local authority. (dur.ac.uk)
  • For those pupils in selective areas who do not get a place at grammar school, they may also experience a lack of role models, a sense of failure and higher concentration of disadvantages pupils in school, which may impede progress. (dur.ac.uk)
  • Eyegaze Edge Systems are being used to write books, attend school and enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities in any situation. (askjan.org)
  • On the other hand, international schools are invariably expensive (expect to pay at least €5,000 per year for primary school, considerably more for secondary) and there's often a high turnover of pupils, relocating with their parents from one country to another. (parisvoice.com)
  • If you can't convince legislators to spend more money on the public school system any other way, you can always sue them. (cascadepolicy.org)
  • It plans to sue the state of Oregon demanding that it allocate nearly two billion dollars more per biennium to the public school system. (cascadepolicy.org)
  • Public school systems now spend twice the dollars per pupil , adjusted for inflation, as they did in the 1970s. (cascadepolicy.org)
  • After a long day at school, pupils need free time to engage in sport and meet with their friends, while homework merely generates additional stress. (deutschland.de)
  • Pupils in Germany used to spend nine years at grammar school (G9), but now the G8 reform has shortened this to eight years. (deutschland.de)
  • Most school-leavers in the G9 model are already 18, while many are still minors when they begin work or university in the G8 system. (deutschland.de)
  • Pupils at the school built STMSat-1 during a 4-year-long project, and the satellite was launched to the ISS last December. (arrl.org)
  • To locate the ethnically segregated schools, we use the share of first and second generation immigrants among pupils graduating from a particular school. (lu.se)
  • School gardens shall be established through the practicum component of TCP which will involve making pupils set up and maintain vegetables gardens in the school. (who.int)
  • In those days, it was far from obvious that young women should be provided with any formal education beyond primary school level, and the state-run higher education system was exclusively geared towards men. (lu.se)
  • To achieve this, Miss Nisbeth recruited several teachers from the city's boys' schools to teach the older pupils at her school as well. (lu.se)
  • Pupil size variation was due to active constriction by the parasympathetic pathway of the nervous system, which regulates homeostasis and the body at rest. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The other major theory says that it's related to the parasympathetic nervous system. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Overview of the Autonomic Nervous System The autonomic nervous system regulates certain body processes, such as blood pressure and the rate of breathing. (merckmanuals.com)
  • They found that pupil size fluctuated wildly, but predictably, during sleep. (discovermagazine.com)
  • From this experiment, the researchers also found that other bodily rhythms, such as the heartbeat, can be predicted from pupil size in sleep. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Usually both pupils are about the same size and respond to light equally. (merckmanuals.com)
  • Unequal pupil size is called anisocoria. (merckmanuals.com)
  • Physiologic anisocoria is pupils that are naturally different in size. (merckmanuals.com)
  • The public and private elementary and secondary average class size is larger than the pupil/teacher ratio since it normally does not factor into team teaching, specialty teachers, or special education classes. (ed.gov)
  • The pupil/teacher ratio includes teachers for students with disabilities and other special teachers, while these teachers are generally excluded from class size calculations. (ed.gov)
  • Some EEG-frequency bands, and pupil size showed small changes following the highest dose of THC. (erowid.org)
  • But there was much to love: its intentionally small size, its focus on character education, its fabulous situation, its offer expressly so very different from the nearby Cheltenham schools. (goodschoolsguide.co.uk)
  • Unlike conventional optics, the FoV, eye motion box (the volume in which the eye should be located to view the entire image) and overall size of the optical system are all independent of the LOE thickness. (medgadget.com)
  • Natural variations in the size of the pupil were used to determine the effect of lighting on visual performance. (cdc.gov)
  • When the pupil size is smaller than 2.5 mm, the diffraction increases and sets a limit for visual acuity. (medscape.com)
  • By moving the adjustment lever you can change the angle of illumination (parallax) and the line of sight for each pupil (convergence) to gain fully illuminated, stereoscopic views, not just through fully dilated pupils but also through pupils as small as 1mm in diameter. (heine.com)
  • The L28 delivers superb illumination for pupil examination. (aw-online.com)
  • Imperfections in the ocular system impair quality of vision. (medscape.com)
  • However, their absence does not exclude this disease, since the seven different toxins appear to involve the ocular system to various degrees. (medscape.com)
  • In comparison, the pupil/teacher ratio for private schools was 11.4 in 2019-20 (the latest year of actual data available). (ed.gov)
  • Viewed over a longer term, the pupil/teacher ratio in public schools in 2019-20 (15.9) was only slightly lower than in 2010-11 (16.0), so nearly all the change during the 2010-11 to 2020-21 period occurred in the last year. (ed.gov)
  • The pupil/teacher ratio for private schools decreased from 12.5 in 2010-11 to 11.4 in 2019-20. (ed.gov)
  • The index measures include: the child poverty rate, the teacher-to-student ratio, per-pupil spending, and the share of adults with a college education. (247wallst.com)
  • The student-teacher ratio - one of the metrics used - is an important indicator, as smaller class sizes allow for more individualiz ed instru ction and reduced likelihood of a stud ent falling behind. (247wallst.com)
  • Inflammation of the iris (iritis) and certain types of glaucoma cause unequal pupils, but this finding is usually overshadowed by severe eye pain. (merckmanuals.com)
  • Unequal pupils themselves usually cause no symptoms, but occasionally a person may have trouble focusing on near objects. (merckmanuals.com)
  • These more noticeable symptoms are often the reason people seek medical care rather than the unequal pupils. (merckmanuals.com)
  • In such people, both pupils react normally to light and darkness and there are no symptoms. (merckmanuals.com)
  • RAB18 deficiency causes two conditions with similar signs and symptoms that primarily affect the eyes, brain, and reproductive system. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Disorders outside the brain that affect the sympathetic nervous system include tumors and injuries that involve the neck or upper part of the chest. (merckmanuals.com)
  • The superior miniaturised optics facilitate entry in to even the very small diameter pupils. (aw-online.com)
  • lation of 5000 pupils in 3 academic years in Dhofar region was selected for the pilot all wilayat other than Salalah, we needed a study due to its distance from secondary random selection of 882 pupils. (who.int)
  • It is worth noting that pupil/teacher ratios vary across schools with different characteristics ( table 208.10 ). (ed.gov)
  • The declines in pupil/teacher ratios in public schools were not consistent across states between 2019-20 and 2020-21 (figure 2). (ed.gov)
  • Many international schools are 'melting pots' of nationalities - some have pupils from up to 50 countries - making them a unique opportunity to meet people from other cultures. (parisvoice.com)
  • The French education system is largely centralised and individual schools have less autonomy than those in the UK, for example (inspectors regularly check that everything is as it should be). (parisvoice.com)
  • Indeed, truly boosting student achievement-as well as individualizing instruction and creating quality options for children and families among, within, and beyond schools-will depend to a considerable extent on how deftly our K-12 system can exploit this potential, in both its pure form ("full-time online instruction") and various "blended" combinations of digital and brick-and-mortar-based instruction. (educationnext.org)
  • Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on. (goodschoolsguide.co.uk)
  • As schools ear care facilities and the availability of suf- were the units for the pupil selection, clus- ficient audiometers. (who.int)
  • Aim To compare the surgical experience and preferred imaging platform, between digitally assisted vitreoretinal surgery systems (DAVS) and analogue microscope (AM), for performing various surgical manoeuvres. (bmj.com)
  • Though not a medical device, the company's augmented reality display could be incorporated into a variety of surgical and interventional radiology devices, such as intraoperative mapping and preoperative surgical planning systems. (medgadget.com)
  • Three states (Nevada, Florida, and Ohio) reported increases in their pupil/teacher ratios, and the rest of the states reporting data had decreases in their pupil/teacher ratios. (ed.gov)
  • The pupils carry out laboratory sessions and exercises using Escape experiences and VR (Virtual Reality) games. (lu.se)
  • During NREM sleep, researchers found, the pupil appears smaller during deeper sleep stages and widens during lighter sleep. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The researchers suggested this could be due to the negative effects of stress and competitiveness generated by the selective system, which could impact on pupil wellbeing. (dur.ac.uk)
  • In the exhibition, Earth and the Climate through the Ages , the pupils take part in a climate expedition to see how the climate has changed through the ages. (lu.se)
  • From pupil Greta Thunberg's call for action regarding climate change, to students and educators from Lund University raising questions about the sustainability in our food choices and travels - the voices are many concerning the future for our planet. (lu.se)
  • Of the nearly 2,000 planets confirmed to exist outside the solar system, only a handful were detected directly rather than inferred from their interaction with the stars they orbit. (nae.edu)
  • For example, if you're teaching a lesson on planets, you can assign the Solar System project. (tynker.com)
  • Your students will use coding to animate the movement of the Solar System and do their own outside research to provide additional information about each planet. (tynker.com)
  • Second, also familiar but showing up here in new ways, are issues of organizational capacity within our public-education system, a system that has enormous difficulty accommodating and assimilating change, and the more wrenching the change the greater the difficulty. (educationnext.org)
  • Tests have demonstrated that at low luminance levels, a change as small as one log unit alters the sensitivity of the eye by an equal amount. (cdc.gov)
  • You argue that the "rules of the game" concerning the market system should change. (lu.se)
  • We need to see ourselves as active participants reproducing - or contributing to change - the system. (lu.se)
  • While these environmental conditions are virtually countless, a small handful of factors play an outsized role in a child's development and likelihood for future success. (247wallst.com)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has brought enormous challenges to the education system, including a historic decline in enrollment in fall 2020-the largest since during World War II. (ed.gov)
  • Pupil/teacher ratios provide a measure of the quantity of instructional resources available to students by comparing the number of students with the total full-time equivalent (FTE) of all teachers, including special education teachers. (ed.gov)
  • Similarly, high annual education spending per-pupil means more educational resources that can benefit students. (247wallst.com)
  • It's a small part of the ongoing education disaster for black students across the nation. (gopusa.com)
  • In analysing nearly 500,000 separate records of pupil achievement, the team found little difference in overall exam grades between selective and non-selective local authority areas, indicating that a two-tier, selective education system does not necessarily lead to better attainment. (dur.ac.uk)
  • Furthermore, the team also found that overall pupils in local authority areas who adopt a selective approach had a lower chance of getting top GCSE grades, than equivalent pupils in comprehensive local authority areas, suggesting that the presence of a selective education system can harm educational outcomes. (dur.ac.uk)
  • Based on their study, published in Educational Review, the team argue that maintaining a selective education system is unlikely to result in any significant academic gain and could instead worsen outcomes. (dur.ac.uk)
  • The French education system and teaching methods are similar to those found in Spain and Italy - but totally different from those in the UK and US. (parisvoice.com)
  • The many adult interest groups that live off our public-education system are already doing their best to co-opt digital learning for their own ends, and to ensure that nobody uses it to threaten their power, membership, or revenue base. (educationnext.org)
  • Aims: This study aims to compare the prevalence of childhood obesity, and parents' perceptions of their children's food environment, between anthroposophical and conventional education systems. (mdpi.com)
  • Martsolf syndrome affects the same body systems as Warburg micro syndrome but is usually less severe. (medlineplus.gov)
  • [7] Though central thermoregulatory mechanisms are present at birth, they are deemed both developmentally deficient and poorly differentiated, which places the newborn, especially those that are small and premature, at risk of severe heat loss and hypothermia. (nih.gov)
  • None of the 1894 pupils had otitis media with effusion or sensory neuronal hearing loss. (who.int)
  • Horner's Syndrome: Horner's syndrome is not a form of genetic syndrome, but a group of findings due to intrauterine brain injury or birth injury involving the person's sympathetic nervous system innervation to one eye. (disabled-world.com)
  • Incontinentia Pigmenti: Incontinentia pigmenti is also known as, 'Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome,' and affects a person's hair, teeth, nails and central nervous system. (disabled-world.com)
  • The patient was a 24-year-old woman with a 2-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus, a history of central nervous system (CNS) involvement in the recent past, and autoimmune hemolytic anemia. (cdc.gov)
  • Make sure you understand your local emergency notification system if you have one. (cdc.gov)
  • The local slope of the wavefront curve at the particular spot within the pupil is derived from the actual image displacement of the point source from foveola as it passes through the optical system of the eye as compared to the ideal/predicted image of the ideal optical system. (medscape.com)
  • Amebic encephalitis results from the hematogenous spread of the amebae from the initial portals of entry (skin, respiratory system) to the brain parenchyma. (cdc.gov)
  • In ophthalmology, the eye is viewed as an optical system. (medscape.com)
  • abnormally small eyes ( microphthalmia ), and small corneas (microcornea). (medlineplus.gov)
  • We know this system makes your pupils smaller when light lands on your eyes. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • While the motor is small, the worm drive has plenty of power to move the 3D-printed eyes and linkages. (hackaday.com)
  • I think it's good to have big ambitions and make small steps. (uu.nl)
  • U.S. students make little progress in math from fourth to eighth grade. (foxnews.com)
  • Good marks should motivate pupils to continue learning, while bad marks should encourage them to make more effort. (deutschland.de)
  • If any motion is detected, two ultrasonic sensors which make up the robot's pupils start taking data. (hackaday.com)
  • Make sure windows are closed and ventilation systems are turned off to make sure the contamination does not come inside. (cdc.gov)
  • The exercises make the pupils aware of how humankind is affected by water shortage and agriculture. (lu.se)
  • The pupils will also make calculations on the conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy, using our pedal bikes. (lu.se)
  • Pressure is high and little time remains to practise the lesson content or explore it in greater depth. (deutschland.de)
  • Actively constricting the pupil requires a lot of energy, according to Huber, and they experimentally deduced that its utility is to prevent light-induced wake up. (discovermagazine.com)
  • If the larger pupil is abnormal, the difference between pupil sizes is greater in bright light. (merckmanuals.com)
  • A small percentage of people will sneeze as regular as clockwork whenever they go into the light - always the same number of times - so they are strongly "compelled" to sneeze, whether they want to or not. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • A projection display having an optical light guide for a see-though display system using holographic optical element or diffractive optical element as in-coupling optics and combined with Fresnel mirrors as out-coupling optics is disclosed. (justia.com)
  • Wavefront describes the curve corresponding to the position of multiple light rays exiting the eye that passed the different spots in the area of the pupil, emanating from the point source in the foveola after it passes through the optical system of the eye. (medscape.com)
  • The image formed on the retina from the light entering through the pupil is not a perfect point but a light disc (airy disc) surrounded by concentric dark and light rings. (medscape.com)
  • Public schoolers are okay with parents teaching their kids -- if the public system gets a cut of the action. (foxnews.com)
  • The pros and cons of handwriting, marks and homework - issues that pupils, teachers and parents get het up about. (deutschland.de)
  • Pupils from non-academic families have a disadvantage as compared with those whose parents support them or can afford private tuition. (deutschland.de)
  • Pupils, with the help of their parents, will also be asked to set up similar gardens in their homeyards. (who.int)
  • Daniel Huber, along with his colleagues and students at the University of Geneva, paired this discovery with a new technique of photographing the pupil to see if there was a connection between pupil activity and the sleep cycle. (discovermagazine.com)
  • These students and their families have little reason to suspect that their diplomas are fraudulent. (gopusa.com)
  • Available to pupils throughout the College, the complex, named The Griffin Theatre, provides industry-standard performance and rehearsal space for students to practice, perform and nurture their creative talents. (goodschoolsguide.co.uk)
  • In addition, one can also see how this system can be used for training residents and medical students. (medgadget.com)
  • We praise equality, but this system is not leading us there. (lu.se)
  • Individuals with Martsolf syndrome have cataracts, microphthalmia, and small pupils. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Either the larger or the smaller pupil may be the abnormal one depending on the cause. (merckmanuals.com)
  • I think it's fine for teachers to tell kids not to blame all Muslims or all Arabs for the Sept. 11 attacks -- if it's a small part of a larger discussion about who we should blame. (foxnews.com)
  • a large number know basic French or Spanish, too), the language barrier to using international Web sites is small. (aisnet.org)
  • Works with most eye variations including extremely large or small pupils, nystagmus, or irregularly shaped pupils. (askjan.org)
  • Data on the percentage of children aged 5 to 17 living in poverty in 2019 came from the U.S. Census Bureau's Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program and was included in the index. (247wallst.com)
  • The control system for Epi is based on neurophysiological data and is implemented using the Ikaros system . (lu.se)
  • There are more such obstacles than one might think, and every one of them will prove hard to overcome, because they are deeply carved into our traditional K-12 system and regarded as valuable protections or benefits by education's innumerable factions, bureaucracies, and interest groups. (educationnext.org)
  • By that evening her pupils became small, quadriparesis developed, and she became deeply comatose. (cdc.gov)
  • This system works automatically (autonomously), without a person's conscious. (merckmanuals.com)
  • Plato believed no one system of government could long survive and warned that democracy is incapable of controlling itself, so it morphs eventually and inevitably into tyranny. (benton.org)
  • Furthermore, teachers benefit when all the texts look the same, and pupils with bad handwriting will not be disadvantaged when it comes to marking. (deutschland.de)
  • Ester Barinaga is professor in social entrepreneurship and wishes that teachers and entrepreneurs might see - and teach - alternatives to the current economic system. (lu.se)
  • The Eyegaze Edge is an eye-operated communication and control system that empowers people with disabilities to communicate and interact with the world. (askjan.org)
  • The pupil of the eye fluctuates and varies a lot in humans and many mammals. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The system could be complimentary in humans, but only testing will yield a definitive answer. (discovermagazine.com)
  • These results may be applicable in the development of novel cannabinoid agonists and antagonists, and in studies of the pharmacology and physiology of cannabinoid systems in humans. (erowid.org)
  • All the rays from an object that are entering the eye with an ideal optical system should focus in the foveola. (medscape.com)
  • Ideal wavefront of an optical system with no aberrations in place. (medscape.com)
  • West of the Divide the rivers flow southwesterly into the Missouri and its tributaries, and, as the watershed is near the western boundary of the state, the rivers have shorter courses and a more rapid flow than those of the eastern system. (catholic.org)
  • Fast input, activation time is user-determined and can respond in as little as 1/10 of a second. (askjan.org)
  • As a result, pupils had excellent knowledge but little ability to communicate. (parisvoice.com)
  • Curricula were streamlined so as not to overburden pupils with unnecessary knowledge. (deutschland.de)
  • Overall Project Objective: The experimental study and further mathematical modeling of the microbial heat resistance, as a result of exposure to acids, (extra)cellular metabolites, molecular chaperones and immobilization (in a solid model system). (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Huber said it was interesting to see the pupil continue working and playing an active role even during sleep. (discovermagazine.com)