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Encyclopedia > Night Shift

A night shift is either a group of workers who work during the night, or the period in which they work. See shift work. Shift work is an employment practice designed to make use of the 24 hours of the clock, rather than a standard working day. ...


Night Shift (with capital initial letters) refers to:

Maritta Martin Wolff Stegman (1918-2002) was an American author, born in Grass Lake, Michigan in 1918. ... Night Shift is the first anthology of short stories by Stephen King, first published in 1978. ... Night Shift is a 1982 comedy film, one of Ron Howards earliest directorial efforts. ... This article is about a corporate game company. ... “Computer and video games” redirects here. ... Foghat are an English rock band that had its peak success in the mid- to late-1970s. ... Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (February 6, 1945 - May 11, 1981), better known as Bob Marley, was a singer, guitarist, songwriter and Rastafarian from the ghettos of Jamaica. ... Rastaman Vibration is a roots reggae album by Bob Marley & The Wailers released on April 30, 1976. ... “Hard Rock” redirects here. ... Night Shift was a series of short television programmes, focusing on a variety of different people who work through the night. ... The Night Shift is a fictional group of criminals in the Marvel Comics universe that first appeared in Captain America #329 (May 1987). ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Night Shift is a computer game developed and published in 1990 by Lucasfilm Games, now known as LucasArts. ... SOAPnet (stylized from 2000 to 2002 as SoapNet) is an American cable television channel. ...

See also

  • Night Court, a 1980s U.S. television series
  • Nightshift, a song and album by The Commodores
  • The Night Shift, a Network Radio Station by Synerdata Radio

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Those who work the night shift ought to sleep when their bodies want to be awake, resulting in a contradictory relationship between sleep time and circadian rhythm.
The average sleep cycle for a night shift worker sleeping during the day is two to four hours shorter than that of the day worker sleeping at night.
If you eat while on the night shift, you fill your stomach with food at the time when it is not ready for digestion, and you leave it empty when all the acid secretions occur.
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