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- noun Plural form of
zeitgeber .
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The most important of these cues, called zeitgebers German for "time givers" is sunlight.
NYT > Home Page By TARA PARKER-POPE 2011
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Other "zeitgebers" for sleep include melatonin, light, and temperature.
Tim Ferriss: Relax Like a Pro: 5 Steps to Hacking Your Sleep 2008
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OBJECTIVE: Controlled zeitgebers - external cues which set the interal clock - have been shown to be effective ways to adjust sleep patterns.
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OBJECTIVE: Controlled zeitgebers - external cues which set the interal clock - have been shown to be effective ways to adjust sleep patterns.
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Natural environmental cues—or zeitgebers literally, “time givers” in German—reset our internal clock each day so that our bodily processes continue to be in harmony with the world around us.
The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008
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Natural environmental cues—or zeitgebers literally, “time givers” in German—reset our internal clock each day so that our bodily processes continue to be in harmony with the world around us.
The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008
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Natural environmental cues—or zeitgebers literally, “time givers” in German—reset our internal clock each day so that our bodily processes continue to be in harmony with the world around us.
The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008
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Natural environmental cues—or zeitgebers literally, “time givers” in German—reset our internal clock each day so that our bodily processes continue to be in harmony with the world around us.
The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008
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In cultured cells, additional driving forces, which are also zeitgebers, are provided by periodic feeding and passaging of the cells.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michel Laurent et al. 2010
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Such an agent should have a beneficial effect on restoring and stabilising the rhythm of a physiological function while not pushing it towards a specific pole, or inducing the opposite pole; it should also allow response to internal and environmental stimuli and zeitgebers, and restore synchronisation of the various body rhythms while not inducing or worsening desynchronisation.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Konstantinos Fountoulakis 2010
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