An important challenge in the analysis of mechanochemical coupling in molecular motors is to identify residues that dictate the tight coupling between the chemical site and distant structural rearrangements. In this work, a systematic attempt is made to tackle this issue for the conventional myosin. By judiciously combining a range of computational techniques with different approximations and s...

Increased exposure to electromagnetic fi elds such as radio frequencies used by Wifi technology raise questions and concerns about their impact on health. For answer these questions, several scientifi c studies have carried out followed by results publication in prestigious scientifi c revues. Literature conducted on the effects of non-ionizing radiation and Wifi waves is vast and sometimes con...

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Alcohol consumption has consequences for the health and well-being of those who drink and, by extension, the lives of those around them. The research reviewed here represents a wide spectrum of approaches to understanding the risks and benefits of alcohol consumption. These research findings can help shape the efforts of communities to reduce the negative consequences of alcohol consumption, as...

STUDY OBJECTIVES This study examined working conditions, reported morbidity, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression and their relation to an index of occupational health risk among women working in brothels in Israel. DESIGN Personal structured interviews with a scale of occupational risk that included seven self report items reflecting past and present morbidity and...

This special issue is the second in a four-part series Health Care Through the ‘Lens of Risk’ which focus on risk categorisation, valuing, expecting and time-framing respectively, and published or to be published in 2012-2013. The present editorial introduces the issue of risk valuing in relation to an interview-based article and four substantial research papers. It will be argued that the noti...

This paper examines the role of the public sector in providing genetic insurance and health care when health risks are genetically determined at conception. We characterize the ex ante efficient outcome (where individuals are placed behind the veil of ignorance), and demonstrate that this outcome cannot be achieved by private health insurance markets or by a government which cannot commit to a ...

This study uses the HERO database in which 46,026 employees met all inclusion criteria for the analysis. The purpose was to assess the relationship between modifiable health risks and total health care expenditures for a large group of employees. This study is different than Research Project Two which examined individual health care expenditures as the outcome. Here the outcome is the total cos...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between health risks and workers' compensation (WC) costs. The 4-year study used Health Risk Appraisal data and focused on 1996-to-1999 WC costs among Xerox Corporation's long-term employees. High WC costs were related to individual health risks, especially Health Age Index (a measure of controllable risks), smoking, poor physical hea...