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Our project’s main aim is to make a Smart medicine box for those users who regularly take medicines and the prescription of their medicine is very long as it is hard to remember to patients and also for their care giver. Also Old age patients suffer from problems of forget to take pills on proper time which causes certain health issues for patients having Permanent diseases like diabetes, blood pressure, breathing problem, heart problems, cancer diseases etc. We saw these problems in hospitals & people around us who have such kind of diseases and thus based on these two problems we made smart medicine box which solve these problems by Setting up time table of prescribed medicines through push buttons as given in prescription. Present time will be saved in RTC module and notification time will be saved in EEPROM. Therefore at the time of taking medicine system generate Notification sound and display the Bright light in certain pill boxes. So, patient can know the specific number of b...

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- Capability Approach, Notifications, Bright Light, Times Tables Research
- by Mikhail Blagonravov
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- Chronobiology, Depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Hypertension

Our project's main aim is to make a Smart medicine box for those users who regularly take medicines and the prescription of their medicine is very long as it is hard to remember to patients and also for their care giver. Also Old age patients suffer from problems of forget to take pills on proper time which causes certain health issues for patients having Permanent diseases like diabetes, blood pressure, breathing problem, heart problems, cancer diseases etc. We saw these problems in hospitals & people around us who have such kind of diseases and thus based on these two problems we made smart medicine box which solve these problems by Setting up time table of prescribed medicines through push buttons as given in prescription. Present time will be saved in RTC module and notification time will be saved in EEPROM. Therefore at the time of taking medicine system generate Notification sound and display the Bright light in certain pill boxes. So, patient can know the specific number of box from which he has to take out medicines. All pill boxes are pre-loaded in the system which patient needs to take at given time. And our system has quality that it can sense if the patient had taken out pills from the box or not. Another advantage of our system includes of Sensing capability if the patient tries to postpone the time of taking medicine by suddenly opening and closing the medicine boxes to stop the sound. Compare to other devices available in market are capable to generate sound at one time and afterwards it stops. Thus, final result of our system provides fast curing of patient health by using our advantageous system.

- by anesis smith
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- Vintage Fashion, Warm Glow, Bright Light, Ray of Light

Night work has many harmful effects on the health, efficiency and safety of workers. This study evaluates the effects of bright-light exposure (BL) on subjective sleepiness during night work. Ninety night workers who have more than a year's experience at a metallurgy production plant volunteered to participate in this clinical pilot study. Workers were divided into two groups and every group was exposed to either bright light (2500-3000 lux) or normal light (300 lux) during break times at night for two consecutive nights. Fifteen-minute breaks were initiated at 22.00 h (before starting work) 24.00 h, 02.00 h and 04.00 h. The range of subjective sleepiness was assessed by the Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) at 23.00 h, 01.00 h, 03.00 h and 05.00 h. We used SPSS 11.5 for data analysis. The result demonstrated that there were significant differences in the rate of sleepiness between the two groups by paired t-test analysis (P < 0.001). These findings suggest that photic stimulation in industrial settings could increase adaptation to night work.

- by Mohsen Poursadeghiyan
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- Psychology, Ergonomics, Adaptation, Performance

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of measures aimed at correcting obesity in women and including bright light exposure during aerobic exercise combined with a restrictive diet. A one-stage, randomized study involved 80 obese women aged 20 to 58 years. The inclusion criterion for selecting participants for this research was the presence of primary alimentary-constitutional obesity with body mass index equal to or higher than 30 kg/m2. All the women were distributed into three groups according to the set of applied treatments. In Group 1, the women were on a restrictive diet; in Group 2, the restrictive diet was accompanied with daily aerobic exercise; in Group 3, women were exposed to bright light during exercise. Before and after the treatment course (3 weeks), body weight, waist and hip circumferences were measured; fat amount was determined by the impedancemetry method; and oxygen consumption was determined by indirect calorimetry. Women in Group 1 had reduced body weight, waist and hip circumferences, fat mass and oxygen consumption. Similar changes were identified in women of Group 2, but weight loss was greater, and the level of oxygen consumption increased as compared to the baseline. In women of Group 3, weight loss and increased oxygen consumption were more pronounced than in those of Group 2. The number of metabolic equivalents (MET) in women of Group 3 increased to nearly 1, which corresponded to the value of this index that reflected the resting metabolic rate in patients with normal body weight. Thus, exposure to bright full-spectrum light increases energy metabolism and enhances the effectiveness of exercises, despite prolonged food restriction, which is one of the mechanisms to improve the efficiency of obesity correction.

- by Scientific Research Publishing
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- Obesity, Physical Activity, Health, Bright Light
- by Haim Einat
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- Depression, Behavior, Circadian Rhythms, Anxiety

A possible relationship between circadian rhythms and affective disorders has been strongly implicated, but understanding of the biological basis of such a relationship demands the utilization of appropriate animal models. Most research is performed with nocturnal rodents while some of the effects of daylight cycles or melatonin levels in nocturnal animals may differ greatly from effects in diurnal species (including humans). Recent studies suggested the diurnal fat Sand rat as an appropriate model animal to study circadian mechanisms involvement in mood and anxiety disorders, especially seasonal affective disorder (SAD). These studies demonstrated that Sand rats chronically exposed to short daylight (SD), or to melatonin regimen mimicing short daylight, show anxiety-and depression-like behaviors. These findings established face and construct validity for the model. The present study evaluated predictive validity by testing the effects of bright light treatment in Sand rats exposed to chronic SD.

- by Noga Kronfeld-schor
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- Depression, Anxiety, Phototherapy, Affect
- by Haim Einat
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- Depression, Depression (Psychology), Phototherapy, Seasonal Affective Disorder