Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg told New Yorkers to go about their daily lives, but urged greater caution and vigilance, and detailed the precautions being taken in response to the threat announced in Washington earlier in the day.
In this study, we measured selective attention with two visual search tasks [18], [25], assessed vigilant attention with the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) [26](detailed in methods) and subjective alertness with a visual analog scale.
We tested these hypotheses in a population-based sample of the Health 2000 dataset from Finland, comprising 384 depressed individuals and 1270 controls with detailed information on sleep, daytime vigilance and seasonality features, and analyzed this set of individuals with respect to 113 single-nucleotide variants from 18 genes of the circadian system.
"We must deal with this without creating panic amongst our people," he said, adding that the memo should not have detailed the intelligence on which its calls for greater vigilance were based.
While the extent of the security breakdown at Y-12 was detailed in a report by the agency's inspector general last month, the hearing cast some new light on the department's struggle to maintain vigilance.
The journey is a familiar one, but Packer fleshes it out with a naturalist's vigilance for detail, so that her characters seem observed rather than invented, and capable of mistakes that the author may never have intended.
Eric Olson, the co-director of sleep medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, says that attention, dexterity and vigilance to details can suffer when people sleep less than seven or eight hours for more than a day or two in a row.
Two men with submachine guns stand in the shade, not an uncommon sight in Israel, particularly this close to Gaza, but unlike most out-of-the-way security details they are rigid with vigilance.
Speech, like the portrayal of a character, is in the details; Nichols watches over it with vigilance.
Prevention of external fixation pin track infection is a complex and ongoing task that requires attention to detail, meticulous surgical technique and constant vigilance.
