Terson’s syndrome: An interesting case report by Rajwinder Kaur, Mehak Mangla, Balbir Khan, Harleen Kaur

“…After 2 months, he was brought to an ophthalmologist in wheelchair for further detailed evaluation, where he was diagnosed with bilateral dense vitreous hemorrhage, making him blind (hand movements positive [HM+]) for 2 months. …”
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IGJR 2/2019: Open topic issue on intergenerational justice by IF and FRFG

“…The journal is released biannually and employs a double-blind peer review process. Its editorial board consists of about 50 internationally renowned experts from ten different countries. …”
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Ukryte w języku aspekty przygotowania dzieci do szkoły by Grażyna Szyling

“…The language image of the schools’ world generated by children and reconstructed in the analysis conforms to the concept of transmissive education dominating in the Polish society, which positively values blind obedience and observance of other people’s instructions as the strategy of learning. …”
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L’agonie de Raimundo, fils d’Unamuno, et le sentiment comique de la vie by Yves Roullière

“…The case of Raimundo is no exception to the rule, but it remains a blind spot for the overwhelming majority of commentators, who have preferred or not dared to point out its major impact on his work. …”
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A Night at the Pictures : A Christmas Carol et la séduction du simulacra by Florent Christol

“…In this « ghost story of Christmas, » romance assumes the familiar shape of the Spirits of Christmas, who show Scrooge images of the poor and the destitute and make him aware of a reality to which he was completely blind, maybe because reality can only be apprehended through a representation, its projection on a screen through which it becomes visible.…”
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Défendre le corps des femmes. Libre pensée et féminisme aux États-Unis (1820-1920) by Auréliane Narvaez

“…The historiographic gap regarding women’s role in the promotion of radical freethought thus hinders our understanding of anti-conformist feminist activism predating the 1840s and the first women’s suffrage organizations. This blind spot in the history of women and religion obscures the relationship between feminism and the American freethought tradition throughout the nineteenth century, whose demands were not limited to suffrage. …”
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Vasospasm in Cerebral Inflammation by Michael Eisenhut

“…Combination of therapeutic modalities addressing calcium dependent and independent vasospasm, the underlying inflammation, and depletion of nitric oxide simultaneously merit further study in all conditions with cerebral inflammation in double blind randomised placebo controlled trials. Auxiliary treatment with these agents may be able to reduce ischemic brain injury associated with neurological deficits and increased mortality.…”
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Newman et la conscience dans son roman Callista et dans son sermon « Ce qui dispose à la foi » by Michel Durand

“…The ‘astonishing variety of literary genres’ to which Newman turned his hand must not blind us to the underlying unity of all his work. …”
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What was the cause of Friedrich Nietzsche's illness? by E. Žilinskas

“…Since childhood, Nietzsche suffered from severe headaches, and at the age of thirty he became blind in his right eye. At the age of 44, Nietzsche experienced a mental collapse, after which he became dependent on others. …”
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Why Rebuild on Toxic, Sinking Ground?: The Challenges for Disaster Recovery in Southeast Louisiana by Jamie Lynn Chan

“…Under these circumstances, Louisiana’s coastal communities continue to assert survivance within precarious environments, offering alternative narratives to blind optimism or defeatism for living in an age of climate crisis.…”
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Prospective Evaluation of Neutrophil Autoantibodies in 500 Consecutive Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Hugh Freeman, Brenda Roeck, Dana Devine, Cedric Carter

“…The purpose of this prospective study was to assess, in a blinded fashion, this 'subclinical' serological marker in a consecutive series of IBD patients. …”
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Somatostatin Analogs in the Medical Management of Occult Bleeding of the Lower Digestive Tract by Julie Martin-Grace, Gianluca Tamagno

“…Despite the lack of double-blinded randomized placebo-control trials and despite the limitations of the available evidence in the literature, including small sample size, variable dosing, and administration routes, there is a consistent agreement in the literature that somatostatin analogs are a safe, well-tolerated, and effective therapeutic option for managing refractory or occult bleeding from the lower digestive tract, with particular reference to patients with angiodysplasia, where endoscopic or surgical management is either not feasible or unsuccessful and other pharmacological options are not preferred.…”
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Seromuscular Colonic Flap for Intrapelvic Soft-Tissue Coverage: A Reconstructive Option for Plastic Surgeons When Traditionally Used Flaps Are Not Available by Johnathon Aho, Sebastian Winocour, Ziyad S. Hammoudeh, Heidi Nelson, Peter Rose, Nho V. Tran

“…The mucosa was removed from a blind loop of colon, and a pedicled seromuscular flap based on the colonic mesentery was placed into the pelvis for vascularized soft-tissue coverage and elimination of dead space. …”
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Recurrent Herpetic Stromal Keratitis in Mice: A Model for Studying Human HSK by Patrick M. Stuart, Tammie L. Keadle

“…Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infection of the cornea leads to a potentially blinding disease, termed herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK) that is characterized by lesions of an immunoinflammatory nature. …”
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Adjunctive Sitagliptin Therapy in Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Pilot Study by Marcia L. Brackbill, Ateequr Rahman, Jeffrey S. Sandy, M. Denton Stam, Arthur F. Harralson

“…A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study was conducted in diabetic cardiac surgery patients. …”
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The complexity of caffeine's effects on regular coffee consumers by Mateja Lesar, Jakob Sajovic, Dušanka Novaković, Maša Primožič, Eva Vetrih, Martin Sajovic, Anja Žnidaršič, Peter Rogelj, Andreas Daffertshofer, Zoran Levnajić, Gorazd Drevenšek

“…To answer this question, we recruited twenty habitual coffee drinkers who received either caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee (placebo) in a double-blind, randomized fashion. The two substances were identical except for the presence of caffeine. …”
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Study on the mechanism of plant metabolites to intervene oxidative stress in diabetic retinopathy by Tianyao Gong, Dongmei Wang, Dongmei Wang, Jinyan Wang, Qun Huang, Haiyan Zhang, Chunmeng Liu, Xinglin Liu, Hejiang Ye

“…Diabetic retinopathy is the main microvascular complication of diabetes and the first blinding eye disease in the working-age population. …”
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Wind Turbine Clutter Mitigation in Coastal UHF Radar by Jing Yang, Chao Pan, Caijun Wang, Dapeng Jiang, Biyang Wen

“…It could compensate the blind zone of HF surface wave radar at close range and reach further distance than microwave radars. …”
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Efficiency Improvements of Antenna Optimization Using Orthogonal Fractional Experiments by Yen-Sheng Chen, Ting-Yu Ku

“…Traditionally, antenna optimization relies on nature-inspired heuristic algorithms, which are time-consuming due to their blind-search nature. In contrast, design of experiments (DOE) uses a completely different framework from heuristic algorithms, reducing the design cycle by formulating the surrogates of a design problem. …”
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Integrated Instrumentation and Sensor Systems Enabling Condition-Based Maintenance of Aerospace Equipment by Richard C. Millar

“…It is concluded that the systems engineering approach to IISS definition provided clear benefits in identifying overall system requirements and an architectural framework for categorizing and evaluating alternative architectures, relative to a bottom up focus on sensor technology blind to system level user needs. CBM IISS imperatives identified include factors such as tolerance of the bulk of aerospace equipment operational environments, low intrusiveness, rapid reconfiguration, and affordable life cycle costs. …”
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