Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Subjects must typically stay from four days to six weeks in one of the lab's eight suites, which are spacious, minimally furnished and painted completely white...
Thien T. Huynh '97, a former summer work-study technician at the lab, says that in one particular 11-day study the subject had to stare at a picture of an eye on the wall for 10 minutes, rest for five to 10 minutes, and then look at the picture again for 10 minutes...
Jayne also noted that Dr. Charles A. Czeisler '74, director of the lab, has found that shift workers suffer more from rapid rotations, as opposed to fixed shifts or shifts that rotate every few weeks. Jayne jokes, however, that in the interest of science "[Czeisler] doesn't practice what he preaches. For easier adjusting, the schedule always rotates up--for example, the shifts could run day, day, evening evening, night, followed by one of two days...
...event that a technician inadvertently leaves a document in a subject's room, all paperwork is labelled with a "lab time" that disguises the actual time and does not rely on a.m. and p.m. distinctions...
...illustrate just how precarious the time situation can be, Jayne says that in the past, construction on floors below the lab has caused problems. Since construction work is usually scheduled for the daytime, a subject could easily realize that his "bedtime" is really in the middle...