Police officers frequently work long, irregular and fatiguing shifts, including night shifts. The effects of night shift work on both waking alertness and ability to sleep during the day may result in degraded police officer performance during operational tasks such as driving and decision making, ...
The authors demonstrated that there was a close relationship between patterns of night-shift work and various kinds of health problems, and concluded that to insert a day off on the third day of the group D shift was effective in reducing the work load. 展开 ...
To clarify the effects of changing shift schedules from a full-day to a half-day before a night shift, 12 single nurses and 18 married nurses with children that engaged in night shift work in a Japanese hospital were investigated. Subjects worked 2 different shift patterns consisting of a nig...
The research is about how irregular night shift work influence on sleeping an well being, and what kind of problems irregularity bring into one's life. The research was done in quantitative way as a questionnaire. Target group was chosen to be restaurant workers and the amount of answerers is...
Our results suggest that the effect of night work on the cognitive function is greater for elderly than for young workers. We conclude that P300 can be used to evaluate changes in the human cognitive function produced by night or rotating shift work and that the results provide useful ...
Our current 24-hour society requires an increasing number of employees to work nightshifts with millions of people worldwide working during the evening or night. Clear associations have been found between shiftwork and the risk to develop metabolic health problems, such as obesity. An increasing ...
Fifteen male paid volunteers (ages 20 to 28) were studied in three groups of five each. The first 4 days of the experiment they slept nights (2230 to 0600( and worked days. On the fifth night, they slept only 3 hours (2100 to 2400) before starting a 10-day period in which the wak...
None of the participants worked night shifts or used prescription medications. Participants were requested to have at least 8 h of sleep the night and avoid strenuous physical and mental activities as much as possible before they came to join the experiment. The forty participants (mean age =...
Measurements were repeated 3 months later during an on-call duty-free period.The medical interns had significantly reduced stable sleep, and displayed increased latency to the first epoch of stable sleep during the on-call night shift, compared to the pre-call and on-call duty-free nights. ...
OPLS-EP loading plot of lipids profile changes after rehabilitation (NMR spectroscopy data in ppm of compound signal chemical shift); p[1] corresponds to the covariance between the NMR data and the predictive score vectors. OPLS-EP orthogonal partial least squares effect projection, NMR nuclear mag...