At the moment, Ptacek sees his research having the most direct applications for those who suffer from night eating disorder, difficulty with jet lag, and the problems associated with workinggraveyardshifts.
I've seen it from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift and we'd have lunch there on the change of the shifts and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio Bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to.