Involuntary Sleep during Civil Air Operations: Wrist Activity and the Prevention of Sleep

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-45

  Wright, Nicola ^a   McGown, Amanda ^a  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alertness alarm; EEG; Eye movements; Wakefulness; Wrist activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE CREW; ALARM MONITOR; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; FLIGHT; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SLEEP; SOMNOLENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WRIST;

ADULT; AVIATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WRIST;

EID: 0346156003     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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