跟讀練習: 2014 Three Minute Thesis runner-up presentation by Cassie Hilditch - 通過影片學習英語口語

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Our fourth finalist is Cassie Hilditch from the Centre for Sleep Research in the School of Psychology Social Work and Social Policy.
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Her presentation is entitled Waking Up Tired: effects of a nighttime nap on performance and alertness.
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Thank you, Cassie.
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Thank you.
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I want you all to think about how you felt when you first woke up this morning.
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Did you wake up feeling tired?
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A little groggy or disoriented, like you needed a strong coffee, a hot shower, and about 30 minutes to start thinking straight?
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Well, this is what we call sleep inertia.
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It's when the momentum of sleep continues into wakefulness.
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And it's during this period that our ability to process information is impaired.
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So for most of us this occurs while we're shuffling around the house getting ready for work or school.
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So what's the problem?
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Well, consider shift workers people who work on call, People who nap on shift, People like emergency service workers, pilots, and doctors.
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These people may have to make life -changing decisions.
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problem -solve time -critical situations or simply drive a vehicle soon after waking.
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And it's in these scenarios that sleep inertia can be a significant safety risk.
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Now, the current guidelines for napping on shift say that you can sleep for up to half an hour.
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This way you won't go into a deep sleep and you'll avoid sleep inertia.
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but this advice is based on studies conducted in the afternoon.
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and we don't really know what might happen after a half
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an hour nap at night say at 4 :00 a .m when we're most sleepy.
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So what did we do?
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Well, we took 21 healthy adult subjects and confined them to the sleep laboratory for one night.
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and deprived them of sleep to simulate a night shift.
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We gave one group a 30 minute nap ending at 4 :00 a .m.
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and the other group were kept awake for the whole night.
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We then tested the performance of both groups at 4 :00 a .m and again every 15 minutes for the next hour.
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And what did we find?
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Well, our research showed that performance after the nap was significantly worse than before the nap.
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and worse than the control group who had had no nap at all.
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and this performance impairment continued for up to half an hour after the nap.
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And interestingly, When we ask people to rate how they felt they had performed, They said they performed better after the nap.
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That is? they were completely unaware of the impact that sleep inertia had had on their performance. So what's the message?
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Well, this research is informing and challenging current fatigue risk management guidelines for napping on shift.
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We now know that if you take a 30 minute nap ending at 4am, then you should include an additional 30 minute buffer zone before returning to safety critical duties.
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We also need to educate workers about the risks of overestimating their performance during this period.
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Our future research will look at shorter naps to see whether they can provide immediate performance benefits
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without the side effects of waking up tired.
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Thank you.
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applause

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  • sleep inertia:睡眠慣性(指睡醒後仍處於迷糊狀態)
  • safety - critical duties:安全關鍵任務(如醫護、駕駛等需高度專注的工作)
  • performance impairment:表現受損(指能力下降)
  • buffer zone:緩衝期(用於過渡的時間)
  • fatigue risk management:疲勞風險管理(工作中的安全管理範疇)

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