Alertness management in aviation operations: Enhancing performance and sleep

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1256-1265

  Rosekind, Mark R ^a   Gregory, Kevin B ^a   Mallis, Melissa M ^a  

^a Alertness Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

Actigraph sleep; Alertness strategies; Education; Innovative scheduling; Operational evaluation; PVT performance

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; AVIATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EVALUATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SLEEP;

EID: 33845461963     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.1879.2006     Document Type: Article

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