Background: Today, obesity is considered as a health problem that increases the risk of some diseases. Therefore, identifying the effective factors on obesity is of great importance. Shift work is one of the indicators for increased risk of obesity in society and also shift work may cause various health problems for workers in military organizations. The current study aimed to investigate the r...

Regrettably, countless nurses who have worked shifts can relate to this true story . Shift work, generally described as working outside daylight hours, is diffi cult physically and mentally but is inherent to many healthcare positions. Approximately 30% of the nursing population is employed in shift work (Hughes & Stone, 2004). However difficult, shift work is preferred by numerous nurses. Some...

Shift work is a ubiquitous phenomenon and its adverse effects on workers' physical and mental health have been documented. In the sleep literature, differentiating between the symptoms of fatigue and sleepiness, and developing appropriate objective and subjective measures, have become very important endeavors. From such research, fatigue and sleepiness have been shown to be distinct and indepen...

This paper examines the effects of shift work on the mental state of factory workers. As an indicator of the workers' mental condition, the authors used a scoring system (referred to below as the 'depression tendency score') based on the SRQ-D investigative report. The depression tendency score of the men was higher among the shift worker group than among the regular day worker group (p < 0.01)...

In this paper, it is proposed the information delivery system that the transmission signal embraces together the wide-area information and the local area information. The distant user from the base station receives the wide-area information only and the nearby user receives together the widearea information and the local-area information. The proposed system uses the code shift keying(CSK) for ...