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Coffee consumption and alertness: a study among office workers in Jakarta

Frontiers in Nutrition
BackgroundCoffee is widely consumed by office workers, primarily for its caffeine content, which plays an important role in improving alertness. For white-collar workers, alertness is crucial to maintaining productivity, and one measurable parameter of ...
Herqutanto, Tria Rosemiarti, Dian Kusuma Dewi, Dewi Sumaryani Soemarko, Ari Fahrial Syam   +4 more
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Combinatorial Synthesis of Next Generation Water‐Soluble Quaternized N‐Halamine Oligomers with Long‐Lasting Antiviral Properties

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A combinatorial library of dual‐functional antiviral oligomers incorporating N‐halamine and quaternary ammonium functionalities is developed for long‐lasting antiviral activity. The lead materials exhibit rapid and durable antiviral activity against SARS‐CoV‐2 variants and influenza H1N1, with 4 to 5 log reduction in viral copies at 5 mg mL−1 ...
Eid Nassar‐Marjiya, Konda Reddy Kunduru, Krishanu Ghosal, Luna Rizik, Nofar Atari, Mahran Daifa, Neta Kutner, Bassma Khamaisi, Qi Wu, Simran Jindal, Merna Shaheen‐Mualim, Ranabir Majumder, Mahitosh Mandal, Michal Mandelboim, Shady Farah   +14 more
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Impact of Entrepreneurship Training on Entrepreneurial Efficacy and Alertness among Adolescent Youth

Frontiers in Education, 2018
Our study focuses on the impact of systematic entrepreneurship training comprising both active and passive learning activities on entrepreneurial alertness and efficacy among adolescent youth. Reports from a two-wave online survey among 328 students from
M. Ho, Marilyn A. Uy, Bianca N. Y. Kang, Kim-Yin Chan   +3 more
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Psychophysiological Effects of a Single Dose vs. Partial Dose of Caffeine Gum Supplementation on the Cognitive Performance of Healthy University Students: A Placebo Controlled Study

Brain Sciences
Background: Caffeine has become the psychostimulant with the highest use worldwide by different segments of the population. This is mainly due to the wide variety of benefits it offers in different contexts of use.
Nicolas Saavedra Velasquez, Giovanni Francino Barrera, Victor Cuadrado Peñafiel, Ricardo de la Vega Marcos   +3 more
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The Role of Daylight for Humans: Gaps in Current Knowledge

Clocks & Sleep, 2020
Daylight stems solely from direct, scattered and reflected sunlight, and undergoes dynamic changes in irradiance and spectral power composition due to latitude, time of day, time of year and the nature of the physical environment (reflections, buildings ...
Mirjam Münch, Anna Wirz-Justice, Steven A. Brown, Thomas Kantermann, Klaus Martiny, Oliver Stefani, Céline Vetter, Kenneth P. Wright Jr, Katharina Wulff, Debra J. Skene   +9 more
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ENTREPRENEURIAL ALERTNESS THROUGH COGNITIVE SCHEMATA [PDF]

This article is an investigation into the causes of entrepreneurial alertness, the ability of entrepreneurs to spot new business opportunities in the environment. By drawing from decision theory and schema theory, a model is developed to show how changes
Dave Valliere
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Anthropology of Family Business: Ten Desiderata. In Proceedings, United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 27th Annual Conference [PDF]

, 2012
For anthropology to realize its potential for contributing to family business, what would it be like? I would emphasize 10 desiderata. These are: (1) familiarity with relevant ethnographies; (2) knowledge about kinship studies; (3) focus on important ...
Stewart, Alex
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Right-lateralised lane keeping in young and older British drivers [PDF]

, 2018
Young adults demonstrate a small, but consistent, asymmetry of spatial attention favouring the left side of space (“pseudoneglect”) in laboratory-based tests of perception.
Harvey, Monika, Learmonth, Gemma, McBride, Natasha, Märker, Gesine, Pellinen, Pernilla   +4 more
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A Bespoke Programmable Interpenetrating Elastomer Network Composite Laryngeal Stent for Expedited Paediatric Laryngotracheal Reconstruction

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A programmable interpenetrating double‐network architecture, created via 3D‐TIPS printing and resin infusion, synergistically combines thermoplastic and thermosetting elastomers to balance structural rigidity and surface softness—crucial for paediatric laryngeal stents.
Elizabeth F. Maughan, Lei Wu, Dong Zhang, Linxiao Wu, Graca Ferreira Vaz Pinto Mendes, Wanqiao J. Tu, Heping Ma, Toby J. Proctor, Colin R. Butler, Thomas Kjærgaard, Mark W. Lowdell, Martin A. Birchall, Robert E. Hynds, Richard Hewitt, Wenhui Song   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploiting metamerism to regulate the impact of a visual display on alertness and melatonin suppression independent of visual appearance

Sleep, 2018
Objectives Artificial light sources such as visual display units (VDUs) elicit a range of subconscious and reflex light responses, including increases in alertness and suppression of pineal melatonin.
A. Allen, Esther M. Hazelhoff, Franck P. Martial, C. Cajochen, R. Lucas   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source