Jet lag

However, I am surprised to see a sleeping Paul who has taken refuge on a rigid, plastic chair. Fully succumbed to jet lag, his legs are sprawled across the floor and his arms wrapped around that cheap book of poetry from which he read to me. His hands are securely placed within the pages of the book, his fingers spread upon them as if they were guarding the precious…

1.0 Introduction On September 3, 1988, when the Tokyo Stock Exchange ("TSE") and the Osaka Securities Exchange ("OSE") propelled stock file prospects exchanging; subsidiary money related items advancement in Japan has get a noteworthy fillip in the meantime (Semkow, 1989). On May 25, 1988, the Japanese Parliament's Securities and Exchange Law has been altered and has made it simple for the improvement. As indicated by the (Semkow, 1989), this statutory change demonstrates a noteworthy defining…

Circadian rhythm is defined as the biological clock in the brain that operates internal organs on a reoccurring 24-hour cycle (Myers, 2014). It is an advanced timing system relying on sunlight and darkness to control biochemical changes effectively to prepare the body to go to sleep (Laber-Warren, 2015). The suprachiasmatic nucleus, located in the hypothalamus, monitors the intensity of blue light waves and serves as the brain’s master clock (Myers, 2014). The master clock can be altered if it…

hours. For example the workers, worked nights and then mornings or visa versa. These extreme hours of night and day have a deleterious effect on the workers circadian clocks. Having such effects on a person’s circadian clock gives the same effect as jet lag. The study was conducted to observe what would happen if they where to put blue-green lighting into the light fixtures while the workers of the sawmill worked during the evening. The idea was to help the workers feel like it was daytime.…

Women in Sports Even though women have gained wide acceptance in the workplace and politics as an equal with men, the field in sports journalism and women’s athletics lacks modern gender equality due to gender discrimination against women. This essay explores the many issues women in sports faces today. Before the 1960s, women in the sports department were rarely seen in the world because sports writing has always been a male-dominated profession. The idea of a women writing about sports was…

Sleep can be defined as a necessary time of physical and mental rest, where consciousness, thought, and voluntary movements stop and sporadic dreaming occurs. No one knows why or how humans and other animals sleep, but it is certain that the type of sleep affects quality, quantity, and effectiveness of wakeful mental and physical activities. However, scientists have confirmed that sleep occurs in two stages, REM and NREM. REM sleep is rapid eye movement sleep and NREM is non-rapid eye movement…

Sleep. It’s something that everyone does, and we spend about a third of our lives doing it. However most people don’t think about it that much, or perhaps think they could be more productive without it, especially because so many people have no idea what goes on during sleep. Everyone agrees that getting less than optimal sleep feels terrible the next day, but sleep deprivation is still a chronic problem. The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 30 percent of American…

Sleep deprivation, which affects the sleep cycle, is a problem plaguing much of the human population. While there are copious amounts of scientific evidence about the consequences and many have authored about the issue, such as William Dement and Paul Martin, many people are still seemingly ignorant to it. Even though studies show that both adults and adolescents in America are becoming more and more sleep deprived, the problem seems to be exponentially more severe in adolescents. Many social,…

Sleep is the activity that fill up most of our spare time more than anything else. Next to food, water, and shelter, sleep is one of the most important needs for human survival. Sleep plays a vital role in good health and well-being for a person. Even though humans need sleep to function properly, it is something that millions of people overlook and put off. On average an adolescent need nine to ten hours of sleep a day and an adult needs seven to eight hours of sleep. Even though most…

Both physiological and psychological human related factors have contributed to either an accident or incident within the aviation industry. The classification includes the factors that affect the mental and physical ability of a pilot to operate an aircraft. The specific contributors include workload, situational awareness, familiarity, training and experience, fatigue and memory. Situational Awareness The term describes the ability of an individual which in the case is a pilot to beware of…