are at times quickly affected with night blindness, and the face becomes hideously swollen." By the same authority it is also stated, " that fish and meat become more rapidly putrid, if exposed to the rays of the moon." Dr. Peet mentions having noticed similar rapid putrescence of fish. The statement of "an intelligent Commander," of the now defunct Indian Navy, is also quoted to the effect tha...

The authors addressed a topic that has practical importance and that deserves further study. They raised interesting questions about distance estimates, and extended results obtained with unaided vision to performance with NVGs. In this critique, several issues were raised in an attempt to foster an informative scholarly exchange.

In common with other healthcare systems, many UK hospitals are moving to shifts of 12 hours or longer as a strategy to reduce costs while maintaining or even enhancing quality. For staff, adopting these longer shifts offers a compressed week, meaning that the work-week is fitted into fewer days by extending daily hours. This change appears to allow organisations to achieve savings on staffing b...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES A growing body of research has indicated that night eating could be associated with poor diet quality and negative health outcomes. This study examined the nutritional aspects of night eating, its related factors, and the association between night eating and body weight among Korean adolescents. SUBJECTS/METHODS This study analysed the data from a one day 24-hour dietary...

counselling. Fellow workers as well as employers should be well informed and concerned. A protective code of practice was thought desirable; but the Manpower Services Commission produced a good one on disability in general last year, and that is not well enough known.7 It is highly relevant to epilepsy both on recruitment and on promoting the interests of existing employees. In the spirit of th...

Ron Laskey — soon to head a new institute in Cambridge, UK, devoted to the molecular biology of cancer — is probably one of the few scientists to derive inspiration from the French existentialist André Gide. Pinned on the notice board above Laskey’s desk, alongside holiday snaps of his family climbing in the French Alps, is a quotation from Gide: “One does not discover new lands without consent...

The luminance-response function of the brief flash full-field photopic electroretinogram (ERG) rises to a peak before falling to a sub-maximal plateau -- the 'photopic hill'. The combination of on- and off-responses inherent in the brief flash photopic ERG suggests that this luminance-response function could be modelled by the sum of a Gaussian function and a logistic growth function. Photopic ...