Military technologies and increased fishing effort leave no place for fish to hide
... with SCUBA have begun targeting the parrotfish at night when they sleep in shoals in shallow reef lagoons. Spearguns and nightlights are as lethal to bumphead parrotfish today as rifles and railroads were for American Plains bison in the 19th Century, says Birkeland. The unsustainable pursuit of larger an...'Night eating syndrome' may be related to the performance of the body -- not the mind
...e product of an insatiable appetite. Instead, the night eater may be suffering from a failure of the body ... nervous system and the endocrine apparatus of the night eating syndrome has previously been described as changes in the circadian rhythm (biologic variation...The body's production of melatonin may be the reason why the elderly can't get a good night's sleep
...ily routine, only subjects who denied a history of night shift work within the past 3 years and transmeridian travel (>1 time zone) within the past three months were studied. Key elements of the study included: (1) Protocol, where each study began with three baseline days and nights, with 8-h sleep...Seeing stars after LASIK? Study suggests certain pre-surgery factors may be to blame
...on in 1998. "We don't know if night vision problems continue indefinitely," Bailey said. "LASIK hasn't been around long enough or studied deeply enough. Many of the symptoms that occur right after surgery tend to disappear rat...Respiratory activation in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA)
...Night 1. Eleven patients were studied on the first night (N1). The suboptimal pressure was 7.1 2.7 cmH2O. ... was asked to use it for a minimum of six hours a night for at least four weeks. After four weeks of treatment with optimal pressure CPAP, eight patients r......ng the day. The foxes, however, are active both at night and during the day, have just one small litter in the spring, and both pups and adults are preyed on by golden eagles. "The foxes are a nice eagle meal for their entire lives, and they are often active during the day, so they are constantly preyed on...Gene therapy and sickle cell disease: Religious perspectives
...ho, at 23 years old, was taken to the hospital one night by his parents to be treated for what everyone assumed was malaria, the symptoms of which are similar to the traumas associated with sickle cell disease. Much to the shock of his family and friends, he died that night. In short, people with sickle c...Beware of leap year when predicting climate change, warns researcher
... the Sun is directly above the equator and day and night are of equal length. In leap years, an extra day is added to February, so the vernal equinox comes a day later on the calendar. As a result, the date of the calendar equinox and the true equinox diverge as the years progress. Over the course of a ce......"The detector lets us work out what time of day or night fish are moving in and out of these wetland structures so that we can get a better ideas of when, and at what time of year, to implement these control devices.," said James Cox. "We won't want the devices to be turned on all the time, and there are g......ctivated by light, and rods, which operate only at night are susceptible to a wide variety of inherited diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa and cone-rod dystrophy. The newly identified gene set, which is reported in the November 30 Cell, could lead to the identification of genes which, when mutated, ca...Clues to development of eye's light-sensitive cells found
...ds, which dominate the retina, are responsible for night vision. To date, most research has centered on rods, in part because they make up almost 95% of the photoreceptors in human retina. Much less is known about cones, including the important but puzzling question as to why they do not generally survive...Study: Immunize refugee children early to prevent deadly measles
... passed quietly, aside from one very late night when he delivered a Kosovar couple's baby in a pickup truck on the way to the hospital. He kept detailed immunization records. Of the 261,000 refugees in Macedonia in Ju...... sample is then grown in an agar plate for another night before suspicious colonies are picked out for several days of more refined testing. Currently, the California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory tests with the Livermore system take about two days, although in the future tests could take as littl...University of Cincinnati and Air Force use algal enzyme to create new silicon-based materials
...lized goggles for the military, including improved night vision goggles. The specific device described in the Nature paper is a photonic system which can produce ultrafast holograms. Clarson said the research would be impossible without an interdisciplinary team. "We have chemists, engineers and biologis...Electronic tags reveal transatlantic migrations and breeding grounds of Atlantic bluefin tuna
...tronic tags suggests that the giant tunas breed at night in very warm waters, swimming up and down in the water column for hours. In daytime this behavior is not apparent....Sleepless aged rats show biological clock problems
...ep. Often, the elderly sleep fitfully through the night only to be overcome by drowsiness during the day and nodding off then. A general feeling of tiredness and irritability goes hand-in-hand with this condition. Now a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues from France and the Un...Exercise effects dependent on time of day
...ercise is performed. Subjects who exercised at night had much larger drops in glucose levels in respons...other times of day. Exercise in the evening and at night elicited large increases in the levels of two hormones important for energy metabolism, cortisol and...A combination of zinc and vitamin A may restore night vision in pregnant Nepalese women
...nc plus vitamin A, but not zinc alone, may restore night vision. The night-blind subjects, with a mean age...ne serum zinc concentrations, the relative odds of night vision being restored by a combination of zinc and vitamin A were four times greater than in the pla......left in the sun all day and then put into boxes at night to retain the heat. The beans are then dried slowly for a month and finally put into plastic bags to condition for at least 2 months. While much research has been done to identify the chemical compounds that make up the flavor of vanilla, little is ......sease-related symptoms such as fatigue, bone pain, night sweats, and decreased appetite and weight loss. Campath appears to work by targeting the CD52+ antigen on the malignant lymphocytes. Campath binds to CD52+, an antigen that is present on the surface of certain leukemic lymphocytes, and induces a...