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The Sleep Impact on Activity Diary (SIAD): A Novel Assessment of Daytime Functioning in Insomnia

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
Daytime impairments feature in the diagnostic criteria for insomnia disorder yet are rarely assessed comprehensively in clinical practice and tend to focus on mood and subjective assessment of cognitive competence. In order to gain more information about
Kelsey Bickley, Nicole Lovato, Leon Lack
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Mobile app for personalized sleep–wake management for shift workers: A user testing trial

open access: yesDigital Health, 2023
Objective Development of personalized sleep–wake management tools is critical to improving sleep and functional outcomes for shift workers. The objective of the current study was to test the performance, engagement and usability of a mobile app ...
Jade M. Murray   +13 more
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Light-based methods for predicting circadian phase in delayed sleep–wake phase disorder

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Methods for predicting circadian phase have been developed for healthy individuals. It is unknown whether these methods generalize to clinical populations, such as delayed sleep–wake phase disorder (DSWPD), where circadian timing is associated with ...
Jade M. Murray   +12 more
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Daylight Performance of the Modified Double Light Pipe (MDLP) Through Experimental Analysis on a Reduced Scale Model

open access: yesJournal of Daylighting, 2022
This paper is focused on the Modified Double Light Pipe (MDLP), an innovative daylighting system set up by the authors in the Laboratory of Technical Physics of the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Pescara (Italy).
Paolo Zazzini   +2 more
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Forecasting crew fatigue risk on international flights under different policies in China during the COVID-19 outbreak

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
To predict the risk of fatigue for flight crews on international flights under the new operating model policy of the civil aviation exemption approach policy during the COVID-19 outbreak, and to provide scientific validation methods and ideas for the ...
SUN Junya, SUN Ruishan
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A systematic review and activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of fMRI studies on arousing or wake-promoting effects in Buddhist meditation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Conventional Buddhist texts illustrate meditation as a condition of relaxed alertness that must fend against extreme hypoarousal (sleep, drowsiness) and extreme hyperarousal (restlessness). Theoretical, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging investigations
Inder S. Chaudhary   +8 more
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Social Context Influences Resting Physiology in Dogs

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
Domestication has affected the social life of dogs. They seem to be less dependent on their pack members than wolves, potentially causing dogs to be more alert towards their environment, especially when resting.
Kim Kortekaas, Kurt Kotrschal
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The mediating role of entrepreneurial alertness in the entrepreneurial passion and persistence in venture start-up nexus [PDF]

open access: yesAsia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Purpose – The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial passion for founding firms (EPFF) and persistence in venture start-ups and to examine the mediating role of searching and scanning alertness, association and ...
Chukwuemeka Christian Onwe   +3 more
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Effects of Music Pitch and Tempo on the Behaviour of Kennelled Dogs

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
Confinement can be stressful for some dogs and this can lead to behavioural issues and poor welfare. A key component of the stress response is behavioural arousal, characterised by increased alertness and sensory sensitivity.
Veronica Amaya   +3 more
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The effect of body posture on cognitive performance: A question of sleep quality

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
Nearly all functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies are conducted in the supine body posture, which has been discussed as a potential confounder of such examinations.
Markus eMuehlhan   +6 more
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