Are children like werewolves? Full moon and its association with sleep and activity behaviors in an international sample of children [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2016 In order to verify if the full moon is associated with sleep and activity behaviors, we used a 12-country study providing 33710 24-hour accelerometer recordings of sleep and activity.
Jean-Philippe eChaput +23 more
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Fear of darkness, the full moon and the nocturnal ecology of African lions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Nocturnal carnivores are widely believed to have played an important role in human evolution, driving the need for night-time shelter, the control of fire and our innate fear of darkness.
Craig Packer +3 more
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Double “full moon” CTO plaque detected by computed tomography could predict high‐grade debulking techniques: A case‐report [PDF]
Clinical Case Reports, 2023 Key Clinical Message Circular heavily calcified “Full Moon” plaques relevance for CTO‐PCI remains unclear. This case shows a patient with double “Full Moon” plaques‐CTO.
Giuseppe Panuccio +3 more
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Environmental factors explain spawning day deviation from full moon in the scleractinian coral Acropora. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2020 Broadcast-spawning scleractinian corals annually release their gametes with high levels of synchrony, both within and among species. However, the timing of spawning can vary inter-annually.
Sakai Y +5 more
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The full moon and motorcycle related mortality: population based double control study. [PDF]
BMJ, 2017 Objective To test whether a full moon contributes to motorcycle related deaths. Design Population based, individual level, double control, cross sectional analysis. Setting Nighttime (4 pm to 8 am), United States.
Redelmeier DA, Shafir E.
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BMJ, 1984 The incidence of crimes reported to three police stations in different towns (one rural, one urban, one industrial) was studied to see if it varied with the day of the lunar cycle. The period of the study covered 1978-82. The incidence of crimes committed on full moon days was much higher than on all other days, new moon days, and seventh days after ...
Dilip Sharma, Thakur Cp
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Full moon and poisoning. [PDF]
BMJ, 1980 Thakur Cp, Ram Naresh Sharma, H S Akhtar
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Once after a full moon: acute type A aortic dissection and lunar phases. [PDF]
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg, 2022 OBJECTIVES Acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) is a rare but severe condition, routinely treated with emergent cardiac surgery. Many surgeons have the notion that patients with ATAAD tend to come in clusters, but no studies have examined these ...
Bjursten H +22 more
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Synodic lunar phases and suicide: based on 2605 suicides over 23 years, a full moon peak is apparent in premenopausal women from northern Finland. [PDF]
Mol Psychiatry, 2021 Suicide data for this study were available for the period of March 1988 to June 2011, and involved 2111 male and 494 female victims from the Finnish province of Oulu.
Meyer-Rochow VB +4 more
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Snowglow-The Amplification of Skyglow by Snow and Clouds Can Exceed Full Moon Illuminance in Suburban Areas. [PDF]
J Imaging, 2019 Artificial skyglow, the fraction of artificial light at night that is emitted upwards from Earth and subsequently scattered back within the atmosphere, depends on atmospheric conditions but also on the ground albedo.
Jechow A, Hölker F.
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