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The article focuses on how sleeping as a daily practice is enacted through and besides "timing devices" for Northern Norwegian shift workers managing their sleep in the absence of common sleep-wake rhythms. Hospital staff working night and day shifts above the Arctic Circle are particularly challenged in managing their sleep-wake rhythms due to rotating working hours and contrasting seasons regarding extreme variations in light exposure. It is argued that uncommon sleep routines and subjective meanings of "good" sleep turn sleep from a merely unconscious mundane practice to an important "arena" of daily self-management. The article explores how timing sleep in daily life "comes to matter" within an interwoven network of social, material, environmental, and temporal arrangements. Methodically based on praxeographic participant observation and qualitative interviews with Nordic healthcare professionals, the article explores the socio-technological side of sleep (time). It discusses the notion of a "sleep of any time" building up on former notions of the "sleep of others" (Kroker 2007) and the "sleep of ourselves" (Williams et al. 2015) allowing further analysis of daily sleep timings (un)intentionally detached from common imaginings of "normal" or "natural" sleep-wake rhythms.

The maximum length, width, and height of 239 truck and bus drivers assuming three sleep postures were measured. The Federal government sets minimum dimensions for sleeper berths in trucks. A sleeper berth of minimum width (0.61 m) would be too narrow for over 40% of the drivers as measured in this study. A minimum width of 0.84 m is recommended to accommodate 90% of the driver population.

FrontMatter -- Independent Report Reviewers -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sleep Physiology -- 3 Extent and Health Consequences of Chronic Sleep Loss and Sleep Disorders -- 4 Functional and Economic Impact of Sleep Loss and Sleep-Related Disorders -- 5 Improving Awareness, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Sleep Disorders -- 6 Ensuring Adequate Diagnosis and Treatment: Access, Capacity, and Technology Development -- 7 Opportunities to Improve Career Development in Somnology -- 8 Bolstering Somnology and Sleep Disorders Research Programs -- 9 Building Sleep Programs in Academic Health Centers -- Appendixes -- A Study Process -- B Acronyms -- C Glossary of Major Terms -- D Congressional Language Establishing the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, 285b-7 -- E Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board Membership -- F National Institutes of Health Sleep-Related Initiatives: 1994-2004 -- G National Institutes of Health Support of Sleep-Related R01 Grants -- H Summary of NIH Support of Sleep-Related Career Development Awards -- I Summary of NIH Support of Sleep-Related R13, R25, P, F, T, and U Grants -- J Summary of Investment in Sleep-Related Projects at the Top 30 NIH-Funded Institutions -- K Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff -- Index.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that upto 4 percent of all fatal crashes are caused by drowsy driving and as many as 100,000 patients deaths per year may be due to fatigue related medical errors by doctors and nurses in the United States.These problems of sleepiness, fatigue, and the contributions of inadequate sleep and night work, to human error and accidents have high costs in both lives lost and economic impact.This e-book covers the physiology of sleep, the pathophysiology of sleep deprivation, the relationship to daytime alertness and fatigue, the relevance of sleep-related fatigue in various industry and occupational settings and its importance as a public safety issue. The e-book should serve as a useful reference to readers interested in sleep research and public health and safety management.

Abstract Early experience preserves and refines many capabilities that emerge prenatally. Here we describe another role that it plays – establishing the neural substrate for capabilities that emerge at a much later point in development. The evidence comes from sleeper effects: permanent deficits when early experience was absent in capabilities that normally emerge long after birth. We provide evidence of sleeper effects for three aspects of vision, based on our research with children who were deprived of early visual input by congenital cataracts: contrast sensitivity for mid and high spatial frequencies, holistic face processing, and the ability to recognize the identity of faces based on small differences in the spacing among facial features.

Alexis de Tocqueville was so impressed with American jurisprudence that he called jury duty a free school for learning personal rights and practical law. But for decades being summoned to jury duty taught me different lessons-how to game the system and how to avoid serving. I was the Queen of Deferments: I was self-employed, I was a single mother, I moved and left no forwarding address. I thought serving on a jury would be annoying and time-consuming. "When you go to court you are putting your life in the hands of twelve people who aren't smart enough to avoid jury duty," someone once told me. I agreed. When the United States District Court finally caught up with me five years ago and I went downtown to serve like everyone else, I learned more about personal rights and practical law than I ever wanted to know. Jury duty wasn't just annoying and time consuming, it was haunting and heartbreaking.