It makes for interesting problems on shift changes and questionable information content when evaluating the results.
The hospital had to open up an extra ward and ask nurses not on shift to come in and staff it.
The junior doctor had recorded details of patients' conditions and medication on the device and was meant to hand it over to the next doctor on shift.
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For the research on shift-working suggests that human beings are ill-adapted to working at night, says Simon Folkard, who studies shift-work from the University of Wales in Swansea.
The Local Government Association said it depended on the job, as a community support officer on shift was a different matter to someone working in the post room.
But the pride felt in the rescue attempts was tinged with bitterness in Senghenydd, as many felt that the mine's owners had failed to heed the warning of a similar disaster nine years before, in which all but one of the 82 miners on shift had been killed.
Thomas Harrah of Seth performed at least 228 pre-shift, on-shift and conveyor belt safety examinations at Upper Big Branch over a nearly two-year period from January 2008 to August 2009, according to state records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Similarly, Christopher said concerns about possible remedies persuaded the Gore camp early on to shift from its focus on double-punched, so-called "butterfly ballots, " in Palm Beach County to disputed ballots in areas where there appeared to be irregularities.
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN graphics card will be available on the SHIFT, F131 and Potenza on February 21, 2013.
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In developed markets, the company has been focusing on a shift towards healthier snacks, relying largely on new gluten-free and low fat products to drive sales.
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Capellas is also banking on a shift toward simplified product lines as software moves off of the desktop and on to "server farms" connected via high-speed Internet lines.
Still, the market is moving to mobile, and Intel is smart to be capitalizing on the shift.
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One even agreed to consult with a friend on another shift and call me back with a solution.
She and the five other drivers on her shift do most of their work while the rover is asleep.
"The cake they gave the people on second shift said, 'Good Luck and Goodbye, '" she said, shaking her head.
The companies that understand and capitalize on this shift will bring tremendous value to their customers, and in turn themselves.
Another volunteer who was on the shift that night looked at me.
Amazon then built on this shift to expand into selling lots more than books, becoming a prime retailer for selling all kinds of products.
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This time we look at oil and gas, solar, wind, biofuel and nuclear companies, plus five companies set to capitalize in other ways on the shift to cleaner energy production.
Nevertheless, he thinks it can capitalize on a shift in the global energy business toward liquefied natural gas, especially as China seeks alternatives to dirty coal-fired power plants and Japan trims its nuclear fleet.
Sometimes I just went home and showered, then sat by a half-open window waiting for the night, Marie out on the town with Stan, my parents on back shift at the works or sitting downstairs watching game shows.
But poor employees are humiliated: the slowest worker on each shift must publicly explain his or her shortcomings, middle managers who fall short are named in the firm's weekly paper, and ineffectual senior managers must volunteer a pay cut.
Why is it, I asked, have the power firms meekly accepted the government's requirement to deliver Whitehall policy on the shift to lower carbon and renewable power, while funding energy efficiency measures, smart metering and the social tariffs that support poorer customers?
You're the nurse on the second shift, the worker on the line, the waitress on her feet, the small business owner, the farmer, the teacher, the miner, the trucker, the soldier, the veteran, the student, the hard-working men and women who don't always make the headlines, but have always written America's story.
The risk of an accident grows with each successive night shift, so that a worker is twice as likely to have an accident on the fourth night shift in a row as on the first.
The court heard Giff met Ms Ramsden on other occasions, including one December 2011 shift when he was on duty outside Downing Street but on a legitimate break from his 12-hour shift.
Frederick, the ranking enlisted man on the night shift in the cell block, is scheduled to enter his guilty plea on October 20.
In a letter to Steven Newman, CEO of Transocean, Rahall said records from the rig indicate 18 people at work on the second shift with "zero engineers, electricians, mechanics or subsea supervisors" on duty the night of the explosion.
Lucent, Cisco and Nortel all keenly focus on the coming shift to IP-over-optical networking, but they hold divergent views on when and in what form it will arrive.
Dependent on this shaky system are riders like 31-year-old Martez Perkins, who works the overnight shift on the cleaning crew at a suburban grocery store.
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