The obesity epidemic and rapidly increasing retirement-aged population have raised concerns about the financing of public health and Social Security programs. After controlling for the endogeneity of retirement with unobserved individual heterogeneity using fixed effects with instrumental variables method, this study finds strong evidence of weight gain from retirement. Retirement is weight gai...

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are quite frequent in languages such as English, but their diversity, the scarcity of individual MWE types, and contextual ambiguity have presented obstacles to corpus-based studies and NLP systems addressing them as a class. Here we advocate for a comprehensive annotation approach: proceeding sentence by sentence, our annotators manually group tokens into MWEs acco...

Cloud technology in a multi-enterprise, collaborative context is one of the most promising topics at IT-Supply Chain (SC) intersection. Cloud comes with well-proven advantages and cost savings; enabling collaboration and business intelligence. Cloud transition is still on-going with individual enterprise-level transitions. However, collaborative paradigm dictates that entire network well-being ...

BACKGROUND Imaging studies show that placebo enhance release of dopamine in the mesolimbic and mesocortical tracts. Dopamine in these areas are involved in attention and working memory function. PURPOSE We wanted to investigating the effect of placebo on psychomotor function and working memory capacity. METHOD 31 medical students participated in this single blind, crossover trial. Choice re...

Abstract Introduction Nurses are prone to fatigue and sleep disturbances due extended hour or shiftwork schedules. Fatigue in nurses not only compromises their own health safety, but jeopardizes patient care as well. Nurses' work hours overtime currently federally regulated. risk mitigation strategies for would benefit from understanding the relationship between duration patterns order develop ...

this study examined the relationship of the personality factors (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) with each of the three workaholism components i.e. working compulsively, working excessively and combined workaholics. as the study is of exploratory in nature, a sample of 145 academicians was drawn from the two universities of jammu region (india), namely...

Following the implementation of the European Working Time Directive Regulations, almost all junior doctors in the UK now work full night-shifts. An RCP 50-member working group was established to develop a practical guide to help junior doctors prepare, survive and recover from working night shifts. The guide, set out in this paper, examines the evidence concerning the hazards of shiftwork, and ...

To date, the understanding of how recovery from work relates to cortisol output is poor. Considering this, the present study set out to investigate the associations between self-ratings of 15 items of rest and recovery and salivary cortisol sampled every second hour across two working days. Data came from 12 female and 13 male white-collar workers and were analyzed by linear regression analyses...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: after conducting a study on shift work and its related health problems in a petrochemical company and recommending a new shift system, the company changed its shift schedule from 12-hour to 8-hour pattern. after a year of implementing this new system, the present study was carried out to evaluate the effects of...