In some industries — emergency medicine, airlines, trucking — long shifts with little sleep are the norm, and managers worried about potentially deadly oversights are paying increasing attention to the effects of sleep deprivation (many railways now have
directors of alertness or similar roles).
Not exact matches
«Some worry is adaptive — anxiety is a natural response to protect one's baby, and often that's expressed with hyper -
alertness and hyper - vigilance,» says Margaret Howard, Ph.D.,
director of postpartum depression at Day Hospital at Women & Infants» in Providence.
Generally speaking, negative ions increase the flow
of oxygen to the brain; resulting in higher
alertness, decreased drowsiness, and more mental energy,» says Pierce J. Howard, PhD, author
of The Owners Manual for the Brain: Everyday Applications from Mind Brain Research and
director of research at the Center for Applied Cognitive Sciences in Charlotte, N.C.
Ralph Fiennes, star
of The English Patient, said he was «devastated and shocked», adding: «Anthony possessed a sensitivity and
alertness to the actor's process that very few
directors have.
New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940 - 1970 was the Metropolitan Museum's most exciting exhibition to date under the auspices
of director Thomas Hoving, who turned Henry Geldzahler loose to price the art world to
alertness.
John Walsh, then
director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., described Ms. Tucker in especially apt terms in a 1993 article in The New York Times: «There's always been a social conscience in Marcia that's impatient and results in a kind
of alertness you can just read across her forehead like a Jenny Holzer sign.»