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Operators of both sexes employed in the pulp industry were examined during a triple-shift cycle of shift work. Changes in the body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and sensorimotor coordination parameters were used as indicators of the circadian rhythms of their physiological functions. Sex-related differences were found with respect to a number of parameters (the muscular strength, critical flicker frequency, duration of the performance of a coordination test and coordination index, blood pressure and autonomic index, and physical general condition and mood scores). Fatigue in this type of operator activity was efficiently detected by the general condition, activity, mood (WAM) test score (especially in women), the number of errors in the test for sensorimotor coordination, and the coordination index.
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Original Russian Text © Yu.G. Solonin, E.R. Boiko, T.P. Loginova, O.A. Ketkina, 2009, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 51–56.
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Solonin, Y.G., Boiko, E.R., Loginova, T.P. et al. Circadian rhythms of physiological functions in men and women as related to shift work. Hum Physiol 35, 437–441 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119709040070
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