Motion perception at mesopic light levels: effects of physiological ageing and eccentricity

The Real Estate Fund of Pension and Disability Insurance (Nepremicninski Sklad) in Slovenia, founded in1997 is the owner of 3255 properties in 116 locations throughout the country and is intended for solving housing issues of pensioners of 65 years or older and other elderly persons who are allowed independently to live. The lease contracts are concluded for an indefinite period of time. The aim and vision of the Fund is to improve the quality of life for the elderly tenants by adapting the living environment, the flats and surroundings according to the physical needs of aging tenants. Homes for seniors often have low light levels and poor light spectrum caused by fluorescent or incandescent lighting. Demographic changes in most European countries show rising average life expectancy which means that the number of people with weak visual capacity or visual impairment is increasing. Equally the risks of injuries due to poor lighting conditions are increasing, e.g. missing a step resulting in a hip joint fracture. Better lighting conditions are of critical importance for aging population, as stated also in the recently published CIE227:2017. To facilitate safe environment for the elderly, the Fund in 2013 initiated a lighting research study that should provide facts and evidence for a lighting standard for their own premises.

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Changing light levels induce photo-oxidative stress and alterations in shell density of Amphistegina lobifera (Foraminifera)

Marine Ecology Progress Series ◽

10.3354/meps11698 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 549 ◽

pp. 69-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

M Prazeres ◽

S Uthicke ◽

JM Pandolfi

Keyword(s):

Oxidative Stress ◽

Light Levels ◽

Changing Light

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Change of color appearance due to extremely high light level: corresponding colors under 100 and 3000 cd/m2

Color and Imaging Conference ◽

10.2352/issn.2169-2629.2019.27.58 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 (1) ◽

pp. 320-325 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wenyu Bao ◽

Minchen Wei

Keyword(s):

Light Level ◽

Limited Range ◽

High Light ◽

Color Preference ◽

Color Appearance ◽

Appearance Model ◽

Color Matching ◽

Light Levels ◽

Appearance Models ◽

Psychophysical Study

Great efforts have been made to develop color appearance models to predict color appearance of stimuli under various viewing conditions. CIECAM02, the most widely used color appearance model, and many other color appearance models were all developed based on corresponding color datasets, including LUTCHI data. Though the effect of adapting light level on color appearance, which is known as "Hunt Effect", is well known, most of the corresponding color datasets were collected within a limited range of light levels (i.e., below 700 cd/m2), which was much lower than that under daylight. A recent study investigating color preference of an artwork under various light levels from 20 to 15000 lx suggested that the existing color appearance models may not accurately characterize the color appearance of stimuli under extremely high light levels, based on the assumption that the same preference judgements were due to the same color appearance. This article reports a psychophysical study, which was designed to directly collect corresponding colors under two light levels— 100 and 3000 cd/m2 (i.e., ≈ 314 and 9420 lx). Human observers completed haploscopic color matching for four color stimuli (i.e., red, green, blue, and yellow) under the two light levels at 2700 or 6500 K. Though the Hunt Effect was supported by the results, CIECAM02 was found to have large errors under the extremely high light levels, especially when the CCT was low.

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Serum Neurofilament Light Levels at the Time of a Clinically Isolated Syndrome are Associated with Long-Term Clinical and Radiological Outcome

10.26226/morressier.59a3eda7d462b8028d894fe7 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Tatiana Plavina

Keyword(s):

Clinically Isolated Syndrome ◽

Radiological Outcome ◽

Neurofilament Light ◽

Light Levels ◽

Clinical And Radiological Outcome

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