Yawning

Sleepy Drivers Are Dangerous Drivers

...creased performance, vigilance, and motivation; trouble focusing, keeping your eyes open, or keeping your head up; daydreaming and wandering thoughts; yawning or rubbing your eyes repeatedly; drifting from your lane; tailgating and missing signs or exits; feeling restless, irritable, or aggressive; or feelin...

Drowsy Driving as Dangerous as Drunk Driving

...t: -- Difficulty focusing, with frequent blinking -- Daydreaming or not remembering the last few miles driven -- Head nodding -- Repeated yawning or rubbing eyes -- Drifting out of your lane, tailgating or hitting shoulder rumble strips If you experience any of these warning signs, pu...

Move to Daylight Savings Time Increases Risk of Drowsy Driving

...t: -- Difficulty focusing, with frequent blinking -- Daydreaming or not remembering the last few miles driven -- Head nodding -- Repeated yawning or rubbing eyes -- Drifting out of your lane, tailgating or hitting shoulder rumble strips If you experience any of these warning signs, pul...

Kids Fight Back Against Vicious Attacks on Children's Health Insurance Bill

...to protect us, not the president. No health care for us, no photo ops for you. Believe me, we got better things to do. [ON-SCREEN: Video of a child yawning while President Bush is delivering remarks. TEXT: Tell your representative: Stand for healthy kids. Override Bush's veto. Send a message at ourfuture....

Yawning Actually Helps You Keep Awake

... So far, the common notion has been that yawning is a precursor to sleep, but a new study has found... more efficiently. So rather than promoting sleep, yawning may help keep us awake. The researchers ha...ious. The New York researchers say that contagious yawning is an evolved protective mechanism in our brain th...

Erectile Dysfunction in Diabetes Due to Defect in the NO Mechanisms

...nction, retrograde ejaculation and the loss of seminal emission have all been described by such patients. This study examined induced penile erection, yawning and stretch in diabetic rats. Male Sprague-Dawley rats treated with streptozotocin (STZ) to induce diabetes were used as they exhibit sexual and behav...

New foetal scans are misleading

...es to be bouncing and kicking in the womb before the mother is aware of such movements. After 16 weeks of gestation, activities like thumb sucking and yawning are seen and at 18 weeks, the foetuses seem to open their eyes. According to Professor Campbell these images do not imply that the foetal brai...

Peek Before Birth

...an which produces moving pictures of a baby in the womb, sucking its thumb, yawning or even smiling. The images are then copied on to a DVD for the mum-to-be. ...e arms, the face, the legs. It's the chance to see them opening their eyes, yawning or moving about. It also gives them reassurance. "There are a lot of 4D...

Yawning in Medical Dictionary

Yawning

A yawn, is a reflex of simultaneous inhalation of air and stretching of the eardrums, followed by exhalation of breath. Pandiculation is the term for the act of stretching and yawning simultaneously. Intended for elementary and secondary school students and teachers who are interested in le...

Yawning in Biological News

Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops

...-accepted definitions, which as yet do not exist. They call on the 158 nations that are party to the Ramsar Convention to help remedy these and other yawning information gaps. They warn against creating energy and food croplands at the expense of natural vegetation and of carelessly allowing agriculture...

US government delays nanotechnology safety measures

...otubes are as similar to pencil lead as the soot on my barbeque grill at home is to diamonds. According to Maynard, This is just one example of the yawning knowledge gap between the nanomaterials entering commerce now and their safety. And this uncertainty over how to develop nanotechnologies safely, hams...

Erectile dysfunction in diabetes is due to selective defect in the brain

...ction, retrograde ejaculation and the loss of seminal emission have all been described by such patients. This study examined induced penile erection, yawning and stretch in diabetic rats. Male Sprague-Dawley rats treated with streptozotocin (STZ) to induce diabetes were used as they exhibit sexual and behav...

Yawning in Biological Technology

Limited transparency in federal nanotech research may hamper development

...etriment of an effective strategy for nanotechnology development and use, Dr. Maynard says in written testimony submitted to the committee. There is a yawning knowledge-gap between nanomaterials entering commerce now and what we know about their safety. This uncertainty over how to develop nanotechnologies s...