OBJECTIVE The authors assessed the relationship between traffic accidents and drowsiness. MATERIAL AND METHOD A self-answered questionnaire survey of 4331 commercial bus/truck drivers was done. RESULT Sixty-nine percent of the drivers reported accidents and one third of these accidents was attributable to drowsiness. Drowsy driving and microsleeps were experienced by 75% and 28% of drivers ...

Throughout Russian history, bouts of political reform have been repeatedly succeeded by reactionary periods counter-reform. We surmise that this historical alternation and counter-reform has driven at least in part comparisons made Russians between their own situation counterparts the west. Such "relative deprivation" understandings change are nothing new, but we tie history impetus for Russia ...

Responding to calls to contextualize social psychological variables in history, the present research examines the relationship between collective relative deprivation and collective esteem using a historical perspective. We hypothesized that collective relative deprivation perceived to be experienced during an important low-point in a group's history serves to define the group's current collect...

The relationship between labor migration and relative deprivation is examined. "We model migration from one reference group to another as a response to relative deprivation and satisfaction: We say that a strong incentive to migrate exists if relative deprivation decreases while satisfaction rises with migration and that a weak incentive exists if the individual increases or decreases his sat...

Research on socioeconomic differences in overweight and obesity and on the ecological association between income inequality and obesity prevalence suggests that relative deprivation may contribute to lifestyle risk factors for obesity independently of absolute affluence. We tested this hypothesis using data on 25,980 adolescents (11-15 years) in the 2010 Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of sleep deprivation on postural control, subjective fatigue assessment and psychomotor performance, and to assess the efficiency of an objective posturographic test as an indicator of mental fatigue. Postural sway using static posturography (Romberg's test), subjective fatigue assessment (Stanford Sleepiness Scale) and psychomotor performance (Sternb...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the relationship between social deprivation and incidence of, and survival from, breast, lung, and colorectal cancers among residents of the South Thames regions. We analysed 23,505 cases of breast cancer, 29,903 cases of lung cancer and 21,905 cases of colorectal cancer, aged 40-99 inclusive at diagnosis and diagnosed between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1992....

BACKGROUND A prospective observational study was conducted to test the hypothesis that relative deprivation was associated with incident physical or cognitive disability, independent of absolute income. METHODS Study subjects consist of 9463 non-disabled people aged 65+ years in the Aichi Gerontological Evaluation Study (AGES), Aichi prefecture, Japan. Baseline mail-in survey in 2003 gathered...