CULTURAL PREFERENCES TO COLOR QUALITY OF ILLUMINATION OF DIFFERENT ARTWORK OBJECTS REVEALED BY A COLOR RENDITION ENGINE

Cultural Preferences to Color Quality of Illumination of Different Artwork Objects Revealed by a Color Rendition Engine

The preferences to color quality of illumination were investigated for American and Chinese subjects using a solid-state source of white light with the continuously tunable color saturation ability and Accessories correlated color temperature of quadrichromatic blends.Subjects were asked to identify both “most natural” and preferred b

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Complex Housing, but Not Maternal Deprivation Affects Motivation to Liberate a Trapped Cage-Mate in an Operant Rat Task

Early life environment influences the development of various aspects of social behavior, particularly during sensitive developmental periods.We studied how challenges in the early postnatal period or (early) adolescence affect pro-social behavior.To this end, we designed a lever-operated liberation task, to be able to measure motivation to liberate

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Efficacy of beetroot juice on reducing blood pressure in hypertensive adults with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (BEET-PKD): study protocol for a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

Abstract Background In autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) impaired nitric oxide (NO) synthesis, in part, contributes to early-onset hypertension.Beetroot juice (BRJ) reduces blood pressure (BP) by increasing NO-mediated vasodilation.The aim of this double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study is to test the hypothesis that B

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