Eye on the Prize

Keep your eye on the prize.

Vision in Horseshoe Crabs

Limulus has been a superb animal model for understanding vision in higher animals, including man. Nobel-prize winning research on the lateral eye of Limulus by H. K. Hartline revealed fundamental principles of retinal function applicable to all eyes. The function of the Limulus lateral eye is now well understood as is its essential role in the animal’s mating behavior.

The Ethics for Evauating with an Emphasis on the Quranic Teachings

Evaluating performances, particularly that of researchers, has been considered as one of the most important problems in the fields of education and research. In many cases, even one score in evaluating a work would lead to getting or missing a prize unjustly. There can be found some Quranic teachings in the field to solve the problem. Paying attention to personal rights of those being criticize...

What the nose knows, what the eyes see, how we feel, how we learn, how we understand motor acts, why “YY” is essential for ion transport, how epigenetics meet neurobiology in Rett syndrome: seven topics at the 2010 Kavli Prize Symposium on Neuroscience

The Kavli Prizes were awarded for the second time in Oslo, Norway on 7 September, 2010 to eight of the world’s most prominent scientists in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. Jerry Nelson, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, Ray Wilson, formerly of Imperial College London and the European Southern Observatory, and Roger Angel, of the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, s...

Children’s spontaneous emotional expressions while receiving (un)wanted prizes in the presence of peers

Although current emotion theories emphasize the importance of contextual factors for emotional expressive behavior, developmental studies that examine such factors are currently thin on the ground. In this research, we studied the course of emotional expressions of 8- and 11-year-old children after winning a (large) first prize or a (substantially smaller) consolation prize, while playing a gam...

Experimental Study on the Effect of monitor height on Eye Indices Influencing Eye Discomfort among VDT Workers

Introduction: Nowadays, excessive computer use in the workplace has raised concerns about the health status of VDT workers, particularly complaints about eye discomforts. Due to the importance of the eyelids and eye closure parameters on eye health during computer works and the direct effect of monitor height on these parameters, this study was aimed to examine the effect of different monitor h...