Thermal Comfort and Sleep Quality of Indonesian Students Living in Japan during Summer and Winter
Buildings, 2021 Thermal comfort is crucial in satisfaction and maintaining quality sleep for occupants. In this study, we investigated the comfort temperature in the bedroom at night and sleep quality for Indonesian students during summer and winter.
Wiwik Budiawan, Kazuyo Tsuzuki
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Increased Steps in Japanese Older Adults Associated with Improved Winter Sleep Quality [PDF]
Gerontology and Geriatric MedicineObjective: We aimed to assess seasonal and age-related variations in sleep quality using Fitbit data and offer lifestyle recommendations for enhancing winter sleep quality.
Nozomi Harai MD +4 more
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Ceylan's Winter Sleep: From Ambiguity to Nothingness
CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2018 Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a puzzling filmmaker who started his career as a photographer and initially made films with a “photographic” spirit. But from his first films known as the Trilogy of Province to his award winning latest feature Winter Sleep, Ceylan ...
Aslı Daldal
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Sleep stage and skin temperature regulation during night‐sleep in winter [PDF]
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1999 To clarify the thermally comfortable environment for satisfied sleep, we investigated the relationship between skin temperatures and sleep stages during night‐sleep in winter, summer and autumn. Four healthy young females served as the subjects. The experiments were performed in a climate chamber under three conditions: at 13°C‐RH70% with futon and ...
Hiroko Kubo, Takuko Yanase
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Optimizing Winter‐Type Seasonality Criteria in East Asian Populations: A Machine Learning Approach Using the Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire [PDF]
Brain and BehaviorBackground The Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire (SPAQ) evaluates seasonal variations in mood and behavior. According to Kasper's criteria, individuals meeting diagnostic standards for seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or subsyndromal SAD (S‐SAD)
Ji Won Yeom +4 more
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A novel theory of rapid eye movement sleep as an integral component of the seasonal timekeeping apparatus [PDF]
Frontiers in NeuroscienceAlthough we have an increasingly sure grasp of much of its proximate circuitry, we continue to lack the ultimate physiological rationale of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
Martin N. Raitiere
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Central hypocretin/orexin administration alleviates sleep/wake disturbances, anhedonia, and neuroinflammation in an animal model of seasonal affective disorder [PDF]
Annals of MedicineBackground Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a major depressive disorder recurring in fall and winter due to daytime light deficiency. To investigate underlying mechanisms of SAD, we previously developed a diurnal model using Nile grass rats ...
Allison Costello +4 more
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Effects of Bathing and Hot Footbath on Sleep in Winter
Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Science, 2000 The effects of daily bathing and hot footbath (immersion of feet in hot water) in winter on the sleep behavior of nine healthy female volunteers were studied. Subjects were assigned to three sleep conditions: sleep after bathing (Condition B), sleep after hot footbath (Condition F), and sleep without either treatment (Control).
Yutaka Tochihara
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Where does bluetongue virus sleep in the winter?
PLoS Biology, 2008 Bluetongue recently spread to northern Europe for the first time. Outbreaks in temperate regions are often interrupted by cold weather, but may reappear months later. Where, then, might bluetongue virus sleep in the winter?
Anthony Wilson +2 more
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Seasonality of human sleep: Polysomnographic data of a neuropsychiatric sleep clinic
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 While short-term effects of artificial light on human sleep are increasingly being studied, reports on long-term effects induced by season are scarce. Assessments of subjective sleep length over the year suggest a substantially longer sleep period during
Aileen Seidler +7 more
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