Impact of Preoperative Daytime Sleepiness and Insomnia on Therapy Adherence and Neurostimulation Amplitude in Unilateral Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation by Pordzik J, Ludwig K, Ruckes C, Gouveris H

“…Patient-reported insomnia was assessed using the insomnia severity index (ISI) and the Epworth Sleepiness scale (ESS) was used to assess daytime sleepiness before and after HGNS treatment.Results: An increased adherence in a real-world setting with 48.72 ± 14.74 hours per week (6.96 hours per night) was found. A strong negative correlation between preoperative ESS score and adherence time (r = - 0.43; p< 0.005) was found. …”
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Assessment of sleep problems in patients with Kawasaki disease: a survey-based study by Samar Tharwat, Mohammed Kamal Nassar

“…KD patients exhibited significantly elevated scores in sleep onset delay, sleep duration, night wakings, parasomnias, and sleep-disordered breathing (p < 0.001). …”
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Giant Woolly Bear (larva), Giant or Great Leopard Moth (adult) Hypercompe scribonia (Stoll 1790) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) by Donald W. Hall

“…Males are commonly attracted to lights at night. Sometimes dozens of males come to bright lights set out in good habitat. …”
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Les archives d’un prêtre savant à Istanbul : traces et supports mémoriels d’une communauté by Anna Théodoridès

“…This article revisits a study of a Rûm Orthodox priest in Istanbul who, so as not to forget, assembles archives (in the form of eclectic collections of objects) of the history of the Rûm community, particularly of the pogrom of the night of 6-7 September 1955. The building of these collections is the result of an active effort to mobilise testimony and collect documentary evidence. …”
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Large Carpenter Bees as Agricultural Pollinators by Tamar Keasar

“…These traits make them attractive candidates for agricultural pollination in hot climates, particularly in greenhouses, and of night-blooming crops. Carpenter bees have demonstrated efficient pollination service in passionflower, blueberries, greenhouse tomatoes and greenhouse melons. …”
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OPERA AND FILM – AN UNLIKELY MARRIAGE by Julianna KÖPECZI

“… The aim of the following study is to analyze the manner in which opera music influenced film and became a crucial building block of certain cinematic narratives, in such films as Jonathan Demme’s Philadephia (USA, 1993), Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element (France, 1997) and Liliana Cavani’s Il portiere di note / The Night Porter (Italy, 1974). By revealing the correspondence between these audiovisual mediums and examining the common language used by them we intent to reveal numerous facets of this symbiotic relationship, all put in the service of lending meaning to the film, thus making the viewer’s escapist adventure truly unique. …”
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A Case Report of Sarcoidosis Mimicking Vertebral Metastasis by Anchalia Chandrakumaran, Henry R. Bateman, Rehan Qayyum

“…A 35-year-old African American male, previously healthy, presented with lower back and bilateral lower extremity pain associated with intermitted night sweats and weight loss. Imaging was concerning diffuse vertebral metastatic lesions. …”
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Giant Woolly Bear (larva), Giant or Great Leopard Moth (adult) Hypercompe scribonia (Stoll 1790) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) by Donald W. Hall

“…Males are commonly attracted to lights at night. Sometimes dozens of males come to bright lights set out in good habitat. …”
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Suaires de papier : Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Interventions et recouvrance by Liliane Louvel

“…Ernest Pignon-Ernest is a French contemporary artist whose technique consists in printing his (black and white pencils, pen and ink) drawings after great masters (particularly Baroque ones like Caravaggio, but not only) and to stick them up at night on city walls. Thus he left his silkscreen drawings on the walls of Naples, Paris, Soweto, Charleroi, as so many posters meant to shock and make the inhabitants react to some social concern. …”
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Spatial activity and sheltering behaviour of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea): a field experiment by Romana Fialová, Ivan Hadrián Tuf

“…The provided shelters were found to be unevenly inhabited both in relation to their position and the time elapsed since the beginning of the experiment. Nocturnal activity (night and dawn) of both species was confirmed.…”
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First Record of Trophobiotic Interaction between a Ponerine Ant and a Cicadelid Bug by Thadeu Sobral Souza, Ronaldo B. Francini

“…Five complete interactions at day and at night (about 60 minutes) were analyzed. The care of cicadelid nymphs ranged between 12 and 961 seconds.…”
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Parasomnias: Common sleep disorders in children suffering from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome by Alexander Torres Molina

“…Parasomnias are part of the complex symptomatic night cortege observed in OSAS, stablishing a direct physiopathology relationship between both of them. …”
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Association of caffeine intake and sleep duration with bone mineral density: a cross-sectional study from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 2011 and 2018 by Yuxue He, Wenjia Zou, Fei Xiao

“…In covariate-adjusted linear regression models, compared with those sleeping 6 h or less per night, the difference in BMD among those sleeping 6–7 h, 7–8 h, and 8–14.5 h per night were 1.81 (95% CI: 0.4122.71), 1.25 (95% CI: 0.55–2.93), and 0.87 (95% CI: 0.38–1.69). …”
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Optimization of energy output from PVT-PCM systems with emerging metal-organic frameworks phase change materials by Bourhan Tashtoush, Malak Al Ghadi

“…System B retained a greater amount of latent heat in the phase change material layer than System A. During the night hours, system B demonstrated considerable enhancements in water outlet temperature compared to system A, thereby improving night-time thermal energy output. …”
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Combined Aerobic and Resistance Exercises Evokes Longer Reductions on Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Resistant Hypertension: A Randomized Crossover Trial by Nayara Fraccari Pires, Helio José Coelho-Júnior, Bruno Bavaresco Gambassi, Ana Paula Cabral de Faria, Alessandra Mileni Versuti Ritter, Catarina de Andrade Barboza, Silvia Elaine Ferreira-Melo, Bruno Rodrigues, Heitor Moreno Júnior

“…Notably, ambulatory BP was reduced during awake-time and night-time periods after COM. On the other hand, the effects of AER were more prominent during awake periods, while RES caused greater reductions during the night-time period. …”
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Nocturnal sweating—a common symptom of obstructive sleep apnoea: the Icelandic sleep apnoea cohort by Thorarinn Gislason, Christer Janson, Erla Bjornsdottir, Bryndis Benediktsdottir, Erna Sif Arnardottir, Sigurdur Juliusson, Samuel T Kuna, Allan I Pack

“…The control group consisted of 703 randomly selected subjects from the general population.Intervention PAP therapy in the OSA cohort.Main outcome measures Subjective reporting of nocturnal sweating on a frequency scale of 1–5: (1) never or very seldom, (2) less than once a week, (3) once to twice a week, (4) 3–5 times a week and (5) every night or almost every night. Full PAP treatment was defined objectively as the use for ≥4 h/day and ≥5 days/week.Results Frequent nocturnal sweating (≥3× a week) was reported by 30.6% of male and 33.3% of female OSA patients compared with 9.3% of men and 12.4% of women in the general population (p&lt;0.001). …”
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Circadian Rhythms Fluctuate the Treatment Effects of Intravesical Treatments on Rat Urinary Frequency Models by Tomofumi Watanabe, Takuya Sadahira, Yusuke Tominaga, Yuki Maruyama, Naoya Nagasaki, Takanori Sekito, Kohei Edamura, Toyohiko Watanabe, Motoo Araki, Masami Watanabe

“…Continuous monitoring with UM-100 also demonstrated that the treatment effect of these intravesically instilled drugs occurred only at night. Conclusions. The extended monitoring of rat urination by UM-100 revealed a significant fluctuation in the treatment effect of intravesically instilled drugs between day and night. …”
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A Study on Dust Storm Pollution and Source Identification in Northwestern China by Hongfei Meng, Feiteng Wang, Guangzu Bai, Huilin Li

“…From the 19th to the 21st, the dust distribution showed similarities between day and night, with a noticeable increase in dust concentration from night to day due to strong vertical atmospheric mixing. …”
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How to Undo Things and Selves with Words: Understanding Literature as Praxis in Virginia Woolf’s Essays on Actresses by Caroline Marie

“…Actresses embodying nineteenth-century acting, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhard and Rachel, as well as Woolf’s contemporary Lydia Lopokova, whose performance is reviewed in “Twelfth Night at the Old Vic” (1933), mediate Woolf’s reflection on literature from different perspectives: writing with the body, reading with gestures, creating from anecdotes, and becoming other.…”
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Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood' by Edward F. Gilman

“…The multiple trunks are muscular-looking, picturesque, grey and show nicely when lighted at night. Fall color is reddish and less striking than other Japanese maples. …”
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