Accumulation of sleep loss among shift-working truck drivers
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چکیده
Sleep loss is known to contribute road traffic accidents. Professional drivers are vulnerable curtailment of sleep due long driving bouts and shift work. To fill in the gap literatu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Chronobiology International
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1525-6073', '0742-0528']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07420528.2021.1929280