Shift in sentence

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Shift work is extraordinary, perhaps 20 percent of the working population, and the body clock does not shift to the demands of working at night.

So when the poor old shift worker is going home to try and sleep during the day, desperately tired, the body clock is saying, "Wake up.

So the quality of sleep that you get as a night shift worker is usually very poor, again in that sort of five-hour region.

And in the investigations that followed those disasters, poor judgment as a result of extended shift work and loss of vigilance and tiredness was attributed to a big chunk of those disasters.

And so, tired people tend to have higher rates of overall infection, and there's some very good studies showing that shift workers, for example, have higher rates of cancer.

Perhaps one of the answers to the challenges that are facing the U.S. healthcare system, particularly in the end-of-life care, is as simple as a shift in perspective, and the shift in perspective in this case would be to look at the social life of every death.

So a fundamental shift, and now you have environmentalists and economists like Ed Glaeser saying we are a destructive species.

I would like to tell you a story connecting the notorious privacy incident involving Adam and Eve, and the remarkable shift in the boundaries between public and private which has occurred in the past 10 years.

And so you see this culture starting to shift in Oklahoma City.

Health is still not something that we should be proud of in Oklahoma City, but we seem to have turned the cultural shift of making health a greater priority.

This would be a paradigm shift in healthcare, and I would argue that not only can it be done, but it has to be done.

One is in nomadic, hunter-gather societies that often shift camp and that are physically incapable of transporting old people who can't walk when the able-bodied younger people already have to carry their young children and all their physical possessions.

When chemical levels shift, they may cause changes in mood, as well.

Why does any of this matter at all? Well first of all, it's already allowing us to shift towards preventive, condition-based maintenance, which means fixing machines just before they break, without wasting time servicing them on a fixed schedule.

Today, nurses spend an average of 21 minutes per shift looking for medical equipment.

So what we must do for this paradigm shift is actually foster a new generation of "digital humanists" that are going to be ready for this shift.

And I'm going to now shift to talking a little bit about my own experiences.

It didn't even talk about cutting emissions, which is an incredible shift in our thinking about this problem.

And in the measure that you begin to think of life as code that is interchangeable, that can become energy, that can become food, that can become fiber, that can become human beings, that can become a whole series of things, then you've got to shift your approach as to how you're going to structure and deal and think about energy in a very different way.

And then there were stories like the senior leadership team of a once-thriving business that's surprised by a market shift, finds itself having to force the company to reduce its size in half or go out of business.

We take drugs to shift the chemistries of our brains and to change our moods, and what are arguments or advertising or big ideas if not an attempt to influence someone else's mind?

We're in the middle of a seismic shift, and we're going to have to find bridgework to get us through.

It was a significant culture shift for an organization that had secrecy in its DNA.

It was the fundamental shift, not new tactics, not new weapons, not new anything else.

It propelled me to go on and to co-lead a team that discovered the first cancer susceptibility gene, and in the intervening decades since then, there has been literally a seismic shift in our understanding of what goes on, what genetic variations are sitting behind various diseases.

During puberty, the first major shift starts, as your voice begins to deepen.

Now you can die and hope for heaven, but you need to work your shift, and I'd expect you all to back us to the hilt, for if St. Peter at his gate were to ask you why you're late, why, you tell him that you had to get a ship built.

And these movements have been incredibly effective and popular, so in 1985, their opponents made up a new word, eco-terrorist, to shift how we view them.

This way, we open our students' minds, we develop a positive shift in attitude toward different cultures.

But if you do get pregnant, sometimes you actually see another shift in your temperatures and it stays elevated for those whole nine months.

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