Insufficient Sleep Syndrome in Childhood by Teruhisa Miike

“…Therefore, in this review, I present the average required nighCime basic sleep duration (NBSD) of 10 h for Japanese and 11 h for Caucasian children as a judgment standard. (1) If the child sleeps less than 8 h at night, and (2) if the child sleeps less than 9 h at night or 30 to 60 min less than the required NBSD, immediate treatment is recommended. …”
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Nutritional Habits and Lifestyle Changes of Nursing Students Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Betül Bayrak, Sıdıka Oğuz, Burcu Sütcü, Semanur Şahin, Ravza Aydın

“…Those who do not smoke, do not drink alcohol, do not skip meals, do not gain weight, do not eat at night, exercise, and have less risky eating behaviors during the pandemic period.…”
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Chronostructure and circadian rhythms of the parameters of the coagulation system and neurohumoral regulatory systems determining diurnal profile of blood pressure by A.O. Ostapenko, Yu.O. Klitsunova, A.S. Kulbachuk, L.L. Vorontsova

“…All indexes of progressing coagulation and anticoagulation blood system has shown pronounced expressive shift of hypercoagulations in patients in the evening and at night. Fluctuations of insulin and glucose levels during 24 hours are also subject to circadian rhythm, i.e. maximal concentration is observed during the daytime, minimal one at night. …”
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Psychosocial Characteristics and Gestational Weight Change among Overweight, African American Pregnant Women by Kelly C. Allison, Brian H. Wrotniak, Emmanuelle Paré, David B. Sarwer

“…Night and binge eating were related to each other, sleep quality, and depressed mood. …”
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Understanding the effect of revolution and rotation of the earth on prayer times using accurate times by Abu Yazid Raisal, Arwin Juli Rakhmadi

“…Areas that sometimes experience day for 24 hours or night for 24 hours are difficult in determining prayer times. …”
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24-Hour Measurement of Gastric pH in Rural South Africa by Alastair M. Sammon, Eugene J. Ndebia, Ekambaram Umapathy, Jehu E. Iputo

“…The mean 24 hour gastric pH was 2.84 and the mean night-time pH was 3.7. 40 volunteers recorded a night-time pH reaching over 4. 33 volunteers recorded a night-time pH over 7. …”
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"Energetics of the outer retina II: Calculation of a spatio-temporal energy budget in retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptor cells based on quantification of cellular process... by Christina Kiel, Stella Prins, Alexander J E Foss, Philip J Luthert

“…Here, anatomical, physiological and quantitative molecular data were used to calculate the ATP expenditure of the main energy-consuming processes in three cell types of the OR for the night and two different periods during the day. The predicted energy demands in a rod dominated (perifovea) area are 1.69 x 1013 ATP/s/mm2 tissue in the night and 6.53 x 1012 ATP/s/mm2 tissue during the day with indoor light conditions. …”
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Weegee’s City Secrets by Alan TRACHTENBERG

“…As a freelance photographer of crime, accidents, fires, and also of the recreational life of the city—scenes of violence and of pleasure—Weegee worked mainly at night and employed a powerful photoflash attachment to his press camera. …”
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Comparative Study of the West African Continental, Coastal, and Marine Atmospheric Profiles during the Summer of 2006 by Ibrahima Kalil Kante, Daouda Badiane, Saïdou Moustapha Sall, Abdoulaye Deme, Arona Diedhiou

“…In the night at the continental site there is a division of the mixing layer with a consistent residual mixing layer. …”
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Les nuits carcérales, révélatrices des violences de l’enfermement by Naomi Fournier

“…This text offers a detailed presentation of a first field project in the context of an academic dissertation, which attempts an analysis of incarceration issues relating to its multiple, insidious, permanent brutalities. Night is viewed from within a closed, normed space, to which is added the more subjective and emotional feeling of confinement, showing how night has a destructive effect on the imagination of prisoners.…”
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Ik’aletik « Les hommes noirs » by Rocío Noemí Martínez González

“…This article shows how the multiple names attributed to actors of the k’in tajimol festival—Black Lords, Wind Lords, Our Ape Fathers, Mixed-Race Fathers of the Night, Devil, Judas, Mixed-Race Elder Brother—reveal their nocturnal nature. …”
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Improved jet lag recovery is associated with a weaker molecular biological clock response around the time of expected activity onset by Marie-Claire Boutrin, Melissa E. S. Richardson, Feyikemi Oriola, Samira Bolo

“…However, light exposure at the wrong time of the day-night cycle is disruptive to circadian-regulated behaviors such as the sleep-wake cycle and memory. …”
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Behavioral changes in the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, mediated by melatonin by Longqing Shi, Junian Zhang, Liangmiao Qiu, Zhaowei Jiang, Zhenxing Xie, Zhixiong Zhan

“…Results A total of 68.7% of copulation events occurred at night in the control, while 31.2% occurred at night in the melatonin treatment, which led to a decrease in offspring. …”
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Preliminary Experiment on the Effect of 18% Substitute Salt on Home Blood Pressure Variability in Hypertensives by Jing Li, Lisha Mu, Huakun Rao, Yangfeng Wu, Hao Wang, Hongbing Tao, Lihong Mu

“…The systolic blood pressure (SBP) in the morning (−10.0 mmHg, 95% CI: −16.5 to −3.5, P = 0.003), SBP at night (−10.2 mmHg, 95% CI: −16.1 to −4.3, P = 0.001), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) at night (−4.0 mmHg, 95% CI: −7.1 to −0.8, P = 0.014) decreased significantly. …”
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Ombres et lumières croisées : l’appropriation prométhéenne de la lumière dans les peintures de Wright of Derby (1734-97) et John Martin (1789-1854) by Muriel Adrien

“…Wright of Derby’s first night pieces are often suggestive of the stock forms of religious iconography. …”
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« Tout est dedans ». Remarques sur la matrice shakespearienne à propos d’I, Shakespeare de Tim Crouch by Virginie Yvernault

“…Written and performed separately between 2003 and 2012, I, Malvolio; I, Banquo; I, Caliban; I, Peaseblossom; I, Cinna (The Poet) give voice to characters from Twelfth Night, or What you will, Macbeth, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Julius Caesar. …”
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Au seuil de l’intimité conjugale : la chambre nuptiale à la Belle Époque by Aïcha Salmon

“…In nineteenth-century France, marriage had to be consummated on the wedding night. This entry into legitimate sexuality was spatially circumscribed to a particular place, designated by the generic expression of the bridal chamber. …”
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Fatigue in Medical Residents Leads to Reactivation of Herpes Virus Latency by Peter N. Uchakin, David C. Parish, Francis C. Dane, Olga N. Uchakina, Allison P. Scheetz, Neal K. Agarwal, Betsy E. Smith

“…Samples were collected from the subjects at rest, following the first night (low-stress), and the last night (high-stress) of night float. …”
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Analysis of Factors Affecting the Severity of Injuries in Electric Two-Wheeled Vehicle Crashes with or without Violation: A Random Parametric Logit Model considering Heterogeneity... by Fulu Wei, Yuxin Han, Yanyong Guo, Yongqing Guo

“…The study showed that some of the factors differed somewhat between the two scenarios, such as gender, while the factors that were significant in both scenarios were >60, broken pavement, street lights at night, no street lights at night, mixed motorized and nonmotorized lanes, sidewalks, other angles, no control, severe weather, and visibility <200 m, where the severe weather and visibility <200 m were random parameters obeying normal distributions, there is a significant difference between having street lights and no control at night in both scenarios, and the difference is significant. …”
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Association between sleep during pregnancy and birth outcomes: a prospective cohort study by Libing Huang, Huanjun Chen, Fuhui Yao, Zhonghan Sun, Shijiao Yan, Yuwei Lai, Chuanzhu Lv, Xiong-Fei Pan, Rixing Wang, Xingyue Song

“…In the multivariable model, compared with 7.1–8 h/night, sleep ≤ 7 h/night during second trimester increases the risk of preterm birth (OR: 1.43, 95% CI: 1.12,1.85), and the risk of preterm birth was decreased in pregnant women who slept > 9 h/night (OR: 0.79, 95% CI: 0.53,0.93). …”
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