Sentences with phrase «seasonal changes in the light»

It encourages us to move away from noticing seasonal changes in the light and responding with our own internal clocks.

Together, these experiments show that the PERIOD3 gene likely plays a key role in regulating the sleep - wake cycle, influencing mood and regulating the relationship between depression and seasonal changes in light availability, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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The system can also dim or switch off individual lights to coincide with seasonal changes in the hours of daylight.

Genes with mammoth - specific changes were most strongly linked to fat metabolism (including brown fat regulation), insulin signaling, skin and hair development (including genes associated with lighter hair color), temperature sensation and circadian clock biology — all of which would have been important for adapting to the extreme cold and dramatic seasonal variations in day length in the Arctic.

These changes in light exposure are thought to contribute to seasonal affective disorder in some people.

His atmospheric abstractions with series titles such as White Shift, White Drift, and Passage, respond to continuously shifting light conditions and the perceptual effects of seasonal cycles and changes in the landscape.

This year - round rotation — with visits to each site carefully organized to coincide with the initial seasonal conditions and such exact specifics as the direction of the light, hour of the day, and change of weather (not to mention the way he must train himself to divide his time between all the short and long distance traveling that he must be ready for)-- is simply unimaginable in our day.