describe as many components of the research as you can. This might include the m

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describe as many components of the research as you can. This might include the method used (e.g., naturalistic observation), hypothesis, independent variable, dependent variable, experimental group(s), control group(s), sample, and the results (as well as any other factors you find interesting or relevant). Can you think of any next steps, or ways the study may be improved? In 2-3 paragraphs. Lack of sleep puts you at higher risk for colds, first experimental study finds By Hanae Armitage Sep. 1,2015, 11:00 AM Moms and sleep researchers alike have stressed the importance of solid shuteye for years, especially when it comes to fighting off the common cold. Their stance is a sensible one-skimping on sleep weakens the body's natural defense system, leaving it more vulnerable to viruses. But the connection relied largely on self-reported, subjective surveys-until now. For the first time, a team of scientists reports that they have locked down the link experimentally, showing that sleep-deprived individuals are more than four times more likely to catch a cold than those who are well-rested "It's very nice to see an experiment looking at sleep as an important regulator for specific antiviral immune responses," says Michael Irwin, a psychoneuroimmunologist at University of California (UC), Los Angeles, who is not involved with the study. "In this particular case, there's a hard clinical outcome showing [sleep deprivation] and susceptibility to the common cold." In a carefully controlled two-part experiment, scientists began by collecting nightly sleep data on 164 healthy individuals for 1 week. Participants were asked to record the times at which they went to bed and woke up. They also wore small watchlike devices that use a technique called wrist actigraphy to monitor movement (much like a Fitbit tracks activity) while they slept. Aric Prather, lead author of the study and a sleep researcher at UC San Francisco, says that he and his colleagues associate the wrist actigraphy data with being awake-if during a reported sleep period, the wrist band records movement, they take that as an indication of wakefulness, and subtract the time spent moving from the hours asleep

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Yes , its true that lack of sleeping weakens the body immunity system and caught cold faster. Rather than discussing the variables of this researches some biological factors are there involved into it. From my personal experiences also I have felt that lack of sleeping causes catching cold faster . The reason is that brain controls our body and sleeping means rest to brain and other body parts too. Now if brain does,nt gets rest in night too then the commanding power to other body parts decreases and similarly in case of body also it absorbs stress , may it be mental or physical, sometimes mental stress passes on through physical stress , so if body does not take rest then acceptance power of the commands also decreases , body feels weak and catches cold fast.

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