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The effect of air conditioner sound on sleep latency, duration, and efficiency in young adults

Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2019
BACKGROUND: Many individuals complain of disturbed sleep during the wintertime when their air conditioner (AC) is off. Therefore, we conducted this study to objectively assess the impact of AC sound on sleep latency, sleep duration, and sleep efficiency.
Malak N Alkahtani, Nourah A Alshathri, Najla A Aldraiweesh, Lina M Aljurf, Luluh Aldaej, Awad H Olaish, Samar Z Nashwan, Aljohara S Almeneessier, Ahmed S BaHammam   +8 more
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Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
wiley   +1 more source

Cataplexy response with extended-release once-nightly sodium oxybate: Post hoc responder analyses from the phase 3 REST-ON clinical trial

Sleep Medicine: X
Background: Once-nightly sodium oxybate (ON-SXB), an extended-release oxybate formulation, yielded significant (P 
Michael J. Thorpy, Clete A. Kushida, Richard Bogan, Akinyemi O. Ajayi, Bruce C. Corser, Jennifer Gudeman   +5 more
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of school life and holidays on sleep and physical activity patterns in junior high school students: a small-sample longitudinal study using wearable devices

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundThe structured day hypothesis posits that the characteristics of a structured school environment play a protective role in adolescents’ physical activity.
Yun Chen, Kai Xu, Yifan Zhao, Zhongke Gu, Shanshan Zhang, Gangrui Chen, Jiansong Dai   +6 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Too hot to sleep? Sleep behaviour and surface body temperature of Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat.

PLoS ONE, 2015
The significance of sleep and factors that affect it have been well documented, however, in light of global climate change the effect of temperature on sleep patterns has only recently gained attention.
Colleen T Downs, Adwoa Awuah, Maryna Jordaan, Londiwe Magagula, Truth Mkhize, Christine Paine, Esmaella Raymond-Bourret, Lorinda A Hart   +7 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy, Jennifer Blake, Meghna Nair, Pamela Stephens   +3 more
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