the islamic calendar is based on lunar months, which begin when the thin crescent moon is actually sighted in the western sky after sunset within a day or so after the new moon. the islamic dates begin at sunset on the previous day. the visibility of the lunar crescent as a function of the moon's age - the time counted from the new moon - is obviously of great importance to muslims. the da...

On one night per year, at a specific point in the lunar cycle, one of the most extraordinary reproductive events on the planet unfolds as hundreds of millions of broadcast spawning corals release their trillions of gametes into the waters of the tropical seas. Each species spawns on a specific night within the lunar cycle, typically from full moon to third quarter moon, and in a specific time w...

INTRODUCTION Uptake of penicillin prophylaxis to prevent recurrent rheumatic fever and its sequela rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is not optimal in the Northern Territory of Australia. The Full Moon Strategy (the Strategy) was introduced in the Central Australian region in June 2006 to improve the uptake of prophylactic penicillin: clients and healthcare workers were encouraged to use the full m...

The elevated moon usually appears smaller than the horizon moon of equal angular size. This is the moon illusion. Distance cues may enable the perceptual system to place the horizon moon at an effectively greater distance than the elevated moon, thus making it appear as larger. This explanation is related to the size-distance invariance hypothesis. However, the larger horizon moon is usually ju...

Despite the major achievements in studying the Moon during the last quarter-century, our global knowledge is still patchy and incomplete. Although the Moon is so close, access has always been limited. Half of the Moon remained completely unknown until spacecraft could be sent around it. Even with the Apollo program and the Soviet and U.S. robotic lunar explorations, humans have directly explore...

This paper investigates the relation between lunar phases and stock market returns of 48 countries. The findings indicate that stock returns are lower on the days around a full moon than on the days around a new moon. The magnitude of the return difference is 3% to 5% per annum based on analyses of two global portfolios: one equal-weighted and the other value-weighted. The return difference is ...

Specimens for the study on coral spawning of three species were collected at two sites in Nha Trang bay, South Vietnam, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019. The determination seasons was based observations gonadogenesis development A. florida robusta variation egg average sizes these hyacinthus. Data analysis comparative discussions allow us to assume that 3 Acropora exhibited single cycle annually...