Mr. Grausman has worked with stainless steel and aluminum, but his use of white fiberglass, a modern material, alludes to the way marble retains light in classical sculpture.
A people who, for reasons that emerge, lost light at some remote part of their history and now live in perpetual darkness, retain "light" in their language but only in mythic allusions to a lost paradise from which they have fallen.
Clinical results involve tachycardia, hypertension, diaphoresis, bronchodilation, agitation, and mydriasis with a retained light reflex.
Another important parameter to be considered is the Q factor, which describes the ability to retain light of any feedback structures.
Because the crystal is a solid, and praeseodymium can be very stable magnetically, it retains light pulse imprints much longer than did previous traps that used gases or less stable crystals, the team reports 5 August in Physical Review Letters.
In some cases, opposition fighters have been able to retain light arms.
"I needed an actor who was able to survive terrible conditions but still retain light in his eyes," Stewart said of García Bernal.
Consistent with the NpolyQ having a clock specific function, two wc-1 alleles lacking the NpolyQ, wc-1MK1 and wc-1rhy-2, loose WC-1 mediated clock function in continuous dark conditions yet retain light responsiveness.
The final intraocular pressure was regulated to slightly higher than normal and the patient retained light perception.
