Night Walking Research Articles

Climbing Jacob’s Ladder

Climbing Jacob’s Ladder Scott Hightower (bio) The spiritual is caught in a spiral, a repeating rattle in my grandparents’ “squirrel cage.” Come summer, all creatures need a little cool relief. Each visit, I nap on the floor in front of the fan. The ironed face of the pillow’s crisp cotton case is slick and cool on my cheek. The heat is an untied shock of waves tossed on the shiny blond wood floor. My ears take up the fan’s repeton. We are climbing Jacob’s ladder . . . . Now, in the North, I groom young writers. The night walk home, the old gospel of an invisible companion, and the news that a dear friend’s Orthodox father seems to have a worn out valve all drag like a floppy sandal. All things find their rhythm. My coat and gloves are leather. My scarf, expensive wool. My grandmother, who insisted that we buck up and find our way through, would hum to me, …soldiers of the cross. [End Page 181] Scott Hightower Scott Hightower, a native of central Texas, won the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award for Part of the Bargin, his third volume of poetry. His translations from Spanish garnered him a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. He lives in New York City and teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University. Copyright © 2009 Charles H. Rowell

(214) Rofecoxib Provides Superior Relief of Pain in Osteoarthritis (OA) Compared to Celecoxib

We performed a randomized, double-blind, clinical trial to evaluate pain relief efficacy of rofecoxib and celecoxib at highest indicated once daily doses in osteoarthritis. 1082 patients meeting entry criteria for OA, responsive to NSAIDs, were randomized 3:3:1 to treatment with rofecoxib 25 mg QD (n = 471), celecoxib 200 mg QD (n = 460) or placebo (n = 151). Efficacy was assessed over the first 6 days of therapy and at weeks 2, 4 and 6 by WOMAC questionnaire and patient global assessment of response to therapy (PGART). Demographics were well balanced. Significantly more patients on placebo discontinued prematurely compared to both active groups (p < 0.001) mainly due to lack of pain relief efficacy. Rofecoxib provided statistically superior relief of night pain (p = 0.023), morning stiffness (p = 0.002), rest pain (p = 0.023), and walking pain (p = 0.005) compared to celecoxib. Rofecoxib was significantly superior to celecoxib on all WOMAC subscales including pain (p = 0.008), stiffness (p = 0.001) and physical function (p = 0.01). Rofecoxib was superior to celecoxib in % of patients with good or excellent PGART over 6 weeks (p = 0.014) and provided quicker onset of pain relief as assessed by time to first report of good or excellent response (p < 0.001). Both active groups were superior to placebo on efficacy endpoints. Incidence of clinical AEs, drug related AEs, serious AEs, and discontinuations due to AEs was similar between active groups. In this study, once daily doses of rofecoxib provided superior relief of pain and other related symptoms in OA compared to celecoxib and placebo. All treatments were generally well tolerated.

Pilot survey of avahi population (woolly lemurs) in littoral forest fragments of southeast Madagascar

This study presents a pilot survey of the avahis (pair-living, nocturnal prosimians) living in threatened littoral forest fragments of southeastern Madagascar. In the period of October-December 2004, I evaluated the density of adult and newborn avahis (carried by the mothers) by counting the individuals encountered during 58 night walks in seven fragments of Sainte Luce and Mandena forests, along one trail/fragment. Along each trail, I used random plots (5 m2) for a preliminary characterization of the vegetation. The density of the population was not correlated with fragment size and number of plant morphospecies, while it was correlated with large tree availability. Possibly due to a low energy diet based on leaves and to specialized and energetically expensive vertical leaping, the loss of large trees by selective logging seems to affect avahi populations more than other variables.

Effect of bright light emitting diode (LED) flashlights and white lines on orientation and mobility performance of persons with sever peripheral field loss—A simulation study

Effect of recent bright LED flashlights and white lines on O&M of persons with severe peripheral field loss in night walk situation has been studied. Luxeon Star(TM) LED Flashlights of 1, 3, and 5 W power were used. Ten normally sighted young subjects (5 males and 5 females, aged 26.3±3.02 years) with low vision simulation goggles participated. PPWS and frequency of collisions to the obstacles were recorded as indices of their O&M performance. Subjects walked most quickly (1.01 PPWS) on white-lined road with 5 W flashlight, in 5° field and 20/100 condition. Without the line, walking speed was significantly slower than the best performance in all conditions.

Reflective Clothing is Attractive to Pedestrians

Motor vehicle crash fatalities involving pedestrians result in 1.8 deaths per 100,000 population annually in the US. Most of these fatalities are attributed to the pedestrian not being seen in time for the driver to avoid a collision, particularly under poor lighting conditions. Previous research shows that reflective clothing worn at night significantly increases a pedestrian's visual conspicuity to drivers, especially when worn on a part of the body that moves. The purpose of the present research was to examine pedestrians' willingness to pay an additional dollar amount for clothing providing increased conspicuity at night. Two studies were conducted with sample sizes of n = 340 and 325, respectively, comprised of university students and non-students. Findings from these two studies suggest that over 49 percent of respondents would be willing to pay an additional amount ($33 versus $30) for a sweat shirt or jacket, and over 60 percent would pay the same additional amount for athletic shoes. These findings suggest that a relatively large segment of the population are interested in and would be willing to spend more for clothing with reflective material. In both studies, significantly more women than men selected the reflective material option. Respondents spending more time outdoors at dusk or at night walking, running or jogging professed a significantly greater willingness to purchase the reflective clothing than respondents reporting spending less time outdoors at dusk or after dark. Implications for product marketing and future research are discussed.

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December Epithalamium

December Epithalamium Stuart Dybek One winter night walking from a party, or maybe on our way to a weddingwe 'd yet to be invited to, we stopped in the middle ofa rutted street to prop a bottle rocket in the wine bottle we'd just killed. Wind kept snuffing the matches so we huddled in a doorway and lit a cigarette. The flare of the match flickered on your wind-flushed face like a bride's blush. When I tapped the ash and touched the glowing tip to the wick, sparks like a just-lit sparkler crackled up the fuse, and we edged back watching the rocket hissing like a fragment of July in the middle of a cold, empty street, then whoosh, up through bare branches and wires, mirrored an instant on third story windows: an exploding bouquet over the roofs, red and green pinwheels and blue-violet petals parachuting down. Phosphorescent flakes fading to cinders. The scorched wine bottle smoldered with smoke. We left it smoldering in the middle of the street and walked away into a night whispering with winter. End on those whispers; only if this was rock and roll would I be allowed to say, I loved you like a bottle rocket in the snow. ...

A systematic review of treatment of settling problems and night waking in young children

OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of treatment of settling problems and night waking in young children. DESIGN: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of interventions. SETTING: Electronic bibliographic databases and references on identified papers, hand searches, and personal contact with specialists. SUBJECTS: Children aged 5 years or younger who had established settling problems or night waking. INTERVENTIONS: Interventions had to be described and a placebo, waiting list, or another intervention needed to have been used as a comparison. Interventions comprised drug trials or nondrug trials. Main outcome measures Number of wakes at night, time to settle, or number of nights in which these problems occurred. RESULTS: Drugs seemed to be effective in treating night waking in the short term, but long-term efficacy was questionable. In contrast, specific behavioral interventions showed both short-term efficacy and possible longer term effects for dealing with settling problems and night walking. CONCLUSIONS: Given the prevalence and persistence of childhood sleep problems and the effects they can have no children and families, treatments that offer long-lasting benefits are more appealing, and these are likely to be behavioral interventions.

A Spell for Night Walking

A Spell for Night Walking Get access Ann Fisher-Wirth Ann Fisher-Wirth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 262–263, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/7.2.262a Published: 01 July 2000

Night walking safety and overall satisfaction with police services

This is a report based on a survey that was conducted in the Regional Municipality of Sudbury, Ontario Canada, which includes a medium‐size city and its surrounding towns. The citizenry was surveyed on a variety of issues including perceptions of safety and satisfaction with police services. Overall satisfaction, using regression analysis, was predicted by policing variables such as service delivery, handling problem situations, and interpersonal skills. Night walking safety, using discriminant analysis, was dependent on personal factors such as gender, home ownership, location, employment, age, visibility (of police), and policing variables such as handling of problems, how serious problems were in the neighborhood. A profile of the unsafe walker at night is presented. Implications for program planning and delivery are discussed.

Charles Dickens: observer of sleep and its disorders.

Using the characters of his novels as the canvas, Charles Dickens painted vivid word pictures of a variety of manifestations of sleep and its disorders. These were presumably based on the author's own experiences and those of family and friends. Dickens was, himself, a self-confessed episodic insomniac. For this he devised the unique therapy of long night walks. This article illustrates, by a few selected quotations, this hitherto unpublicized aspect of the author's life and works.

Kazantzakis' Making of God: A Study in Literature and Philosophy

Odysseus, on Calypso's isle too long, suddenly found that The world then seemed a legend, life a passing dream, the soul of man a spiraling smoke that rose in air; in my clear head gods suddenly were born, blazed up, as suddenly were lost, and others rose instead like clouds and fell in rain drops on my sun-scorched mind. (Odyssey, II, 110-114) Later on Ithaca, talking to a bronzesmith whom he wanted to make into a dis ciple: One night walking along a barbarous coast alone, I mounted toward a temple perched on some high rocks and broke the door down till the walls thundered and groaned, and as 1 groped in darkness my hands fell with greed on a new god who wove this iron thrust through his belt... and I flung out my hands unfearing, ripped the belt, and thus the god's sword passed into my mortal hands. (Odyssey, II, 800-804, 809-810) At the wedding feast of Telemachus, Odysseus . . . pitied youth and felt the unspeakable deep grief of maids, and like a god spread out his hands and blessed them . . . (Odyssey, II, 1196-1197) Landing for a while on the way to Helen and Sparta, Oysseus puts on a pretty girl: The swift mind-reader felt the maiden's fear and joy: 'Yes, you've divined it, lovely lass. I'm a sea-god who saw you far off from the waves and leapt ashore so that the thighs of god and man might meet in love. (Odyssey, III, 499-502) These random quotations touch many of the ways in which the double voice of Kazantzakis and Odysseus manages to say that man is a god. Discussion of the four passages helps us to see how that double voice operates, and what kind of explicit claims it makes. The third passage is a familiar literary turn, innocent and minimally meaning ful in itself, but here fraught with context. At this point Odysseus is about to cut himself off from Ithaca, from the generation which is replacing him there, and from the system of moral, social, and economic values which dominates now on the island. His freedom, through which he finds the self-transcendence leading to

CHAPTER XI RHYTHMIC MOVEMENTS IN INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD HEAD BANGING, HEAD TURNING AND ROCKING

SummaryA description is given of the ocourrence of rhythmic movemente such as head banging, head turning and rocking in a longitudinally studied example of 212 children. At the age of three years, 12% of the ohildren indulged in rhythmic movements of this kind and 6% of that continued to do so at the age of five. The stereo types at three yeare exhibit no statistical connection with habitual thumbsucking, night walking or bruxism, nor do children sleeping alone in a room exhibit more stereotypes than other.Headbunging occur as a habit in connection with tiredness and settling at night and as an expression of emotional disturbance. In same cases the child bangs its head to express happiness. Headbanging as a reaction to disappointment becomes relatively more frequent between the ages of 2–3 years.The behavior begins mostly during infancy, in a few cases between 12–18 months. None of the children in this series began later than 18 month. Six children (3% of the 200 in the sample) continued their rhythmic rocking at bedtime without inerruption until they reached school age. In cases where the behavior persist it is compared to a conditioned reflex in search of relaxation and gratification.