Less pigmented by retinal iodopsins ( three forms / colors in humans ), responsible for color vision and sensing relatively high light intensities ( day vision ), are less impaired at early stages of the vitamin A deficiency.

Since cones contain the pigmented opsins that allow humans to discriminate color, the fovea is largely responsible for the color vision in humans, which is superior to that of most other mammals.

What they are after is the beatific vision.

Lincoln's slow progress towards the several marking his achievement is even now unrecognizable as such, and loosely interpreted as the alternation of inconsistency with vision.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

This new vision of man that the narrator acquires is also accompanied by a re-vision of his previous view.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

A work so broad, even when it is directed by a leading idea and informed by a moral vision, must necessarily `` fail ''.

The music becomes ethereal as he calls up a vision of her own sainthood: it is she, he tells her, who can bring the truth to Russia and convert the heretics.

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

if it is somber, it is also precise, and the precision lends authority to the vision.

He often spoke of them as his `` ecumenical '' glasses and used them as a symbol of the kind of vision that is required in the church.

It is, he said, a bifocal vision, which can see both the near-at-hand and the distant and keep a Christian in right relation to both.

And yet there is a note of hope, because this same science that is giving us the power of the atom is also giving us atomic vision.

And it is in this new vision of the atom that we find an affirmation and an invigoration of our faith.

The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.

`` All platforms are meaningless: the program of either party is what lies in the vision and conscience of the candidate the party chooses to lead it ''.

The albedo is an important concept in climatology and astronomy, as well as in calculating reflectivity of surfaces in LEED sustainable rating systems for buildings, computer graphics and computer vision.

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

Eyes and legs grow quickly, a tongue is formed, and all this is accompanied by associated changes in the neural networks ( development of stereoscopic vision, loss of the lateral line system, etc .).

The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.

Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

Cetaceans make up for their generally poor vision ( with the exception of the dolphin ) with excellent hearing.

Dyslexia is distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction.

However, visual impairment can be a broader term, including, for example, people who have partial sight in one eye, those with uncorrectable mild to moderate poor vision, or even those who wear glasses, a group that would be excluded by the word blind.

However, felids appear to have relatively poor color vision in comparison with humans.

It is able to see as far away as, but because its retinas only contain cones, it is thought to have poor night vision.

When World War I broke out, Banach was excused from military service due to his left-handedness and poor vision.

This increased his concern for his already poor eyesight and much of his work in the early part of the decade had featured metaphors of vision and sight.

Sometimes older versions are shown wearing a pair of glasses ; although used to compensate for his poor vision, Capitano will insist that it is so the brilliant or fierce glint in his handsome eyes will not outshine the sun.

) have poor night vision.

At first, the retina is poorly developed and vision is poor.

* Nightsiders, rat-like humanoids with poor vision, but highly developed hearing.

Although they have excellent senses of smell and hearing – vital attributes in a crepuscular omnivore – they have poor vision.

A number of references to Scrooge's ( more accurately Magoo's ) poor vision are sprinkled through the story, a nod to the Magoo character, but except for the beginning and ending pieces which occur outside the framework of the Dickens story, there are none of the usual Magoo catastrophes.

* 1849-Just weeks after arriving on the Melanesian island of Anatom, missionary John Geddie wrote in his journal: " In the darkness, degradation, pollution and misery that surrounds me, I will look forward in the vision of faith to the time when some of these poor islanders will unite in the triumphant song of ransomed souls, ' Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood.

As Green Iguanas have only a few Rod cells, they have poor vision in low-light conditions.

They have small eyes, and generally poor vision, but have excellent senses of hearing and smell.

He fails at a religious career and then as a social activist in a coal mining town, returns home to his father's house where he is rejected by a woman he obsessively loves, takes up with a prostitute who leaves because he is too poor, and discovers painting, which he pursues while agonizing that his vision exceeds his ability to execute.

During the June 1098 Siege of Antioch, a poor monk Peter Bartholomew reported that he had a vision in which St. Andrew told him that the Holy Lance was buried in the Church of St Peter in Antioch.

Reiner claims that the Opti-Grab caused his eyes to be crossed and his resulting poor vision caused the death of a stunt driver in the film he was directing.

Humans have poor night vision compared to many animals, in part because the human eye lacks a tapetum lucidum.