Sentences with phrase «periods of slumber»

Or, in which two periods of slumber, hearkening back to the days before electricity and industrialization, could hasten sleep and lead to feelings of restfulness.

The same functionality also tracks sleep, although you have to manually enter your period of slumber and, as always with sleep tracking, once you've got the data it's hard to know what to do with it.

Not exact matches

Study researchers suspect that exhausted people's brains may be forced to «go offline» and take a period of local sleep in shifts to continue to function throughout the day, so a good night's slumber may be the key to limiting these episodes.

This was the same period in which Europe was startled awake from centuries of economic slumber.

Children can sit up, stand up and move around comfortably in the Slumber Sleeper allowing them the coziness they so need to sleep for longer periods of time.

Children need to know that you aren't going to be able to stay right by their side at all hours of the night and by giving them the soothing comfort of the Slumber Sleeper, they do fall asleep quicker and sleep for longer periods of time.

That's in part because night sleep involves longer periods of deep, slow - wave slumber, and «you need to have an adequate amount of slow - wave sleep for brain restoration to happen,» explains Mark Mahone, a child neuropsychologist at the Johns Hopkins — affiliated Kennedy Krieger Institute.

But now researchers reporting in Current Biology on December 28 have found a way to capture detailed information on human sleep cycles over long periods of time while individuals slumber at home in their usual way.

Perchance to Dream In 1953 Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago and his graduate student Eugene Aserinsky discovered that slumber, which had been considered a single continuous period of downtime, contains recurring periods in which the sleeper's eyes move about, heartbeat and breathing become irregular, most voluntary muscles are paralyzed and brain activity (as measured by electroencephalography) is heightened.

(See: NYT: Missing Its Spots: «Sun may be on verge of falling into an extended slumber» — could cause «extended chilly period» — «Cosmic ray levels correlate well with climate extending back thousands of years» — July 21, 2009 & Also see: «Sun Sleeps»: Danish Scientist declares «global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning... enjoy global warming while it lasts» — Sun is «heading towards «a grand minimum» as we saw in Little Ice Age» — Sept. 11, 2009)

NYT: Missing Its Spots: «Sun may be on verge of falling into an extended slumber» — could cause «extended chilly period» — «Cosmic ray levels correlate well with climate extending back thousands of years» — July 21, 2009

What Doze Mode does is extend standby battery life by putting the phone in a deeper slumber during longer periods of inactivity.