Know Thyself: Stable Cell Fate Decisions in Insect Colour Vision

Spectral sensitivity of a colour changing spider.

Vision plays a paramount role in some spider families such as the Salticidae, Lycosidae and Thomisidae, as it is involved in prey hunting, orientation or choice of substrate. In the thomisid Misumena vatia, for which the substrate colour affects the body colour, vision seems to mediate morphological colour changes. However, nothing is known about which component of visual signals from the subst...

Performance in Practice: Physician Know Thyself Self-assessment in Lifelong Learning and Improving

Physician, know thyself.

Know Thyself? Assimilating the Classical Leisure Ideal, Self-actualisation, Flow Experience, and Existential Authenticity

Colour-space distortion in women who are heterozygous for colour deficiency

We examined colour perception among a group of women heterozygous for colour vision deficiency. Judgements of colour dissimilarity were collected by presenting colour stimuli in groups of three for odd-one-out decisions. The judgements were summarised as one consensus colour space for the heterozygotes and another for age-matched controls. Individual differences MDS was also applied, resulting ...