OBJECTIVE To compare 12-month healthcare costs between employees with versus without diagnosed opioid abuse within 12 months after an injury-related workers' compensation (WC) or short-term disability (STD) claim. METHODS Retrospective study using 2003 to 2014 US insurance claims linked to administrative data on WC/STD claims. Multivariable models compared healthcare costs between employees w...

Despite the popularity of financial compensation as a means for addressing trust violations, the question whether (more) money can indeed buy trust back remains largely unexplored. In the present research, we focus on the role of violation type and compensation size. The results of a scenario study and a laboratory experiment show that financial compensation can effectively promote the restorat...

Pseudohypacusis or the intentional feigning of hearing loss is a challenging situation in the medicolegal evaluation of hearing levels. Few studies have been performed on predisposing factors that make compensation claims susceptible to malingering. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between educational level and frequency of pseudohypacusis in a group of medico-legal cl...

" Any ' Insured Person' who may be a patient in this Institution has only to apply to the Sister of the Ward in which he is being treated, for a certificate (which is granted free), as often as his Approved Society requires it. This certificate is quite sufficient under Memorandum No. 211, paras. 38 and 39, issued by the Insurance Commissioners, to enable any Approved Society to pay sick benefi...

background: as a zoonotic pathogen, encephalitozoon cuniculi is a cause of serious disease in animals and people. the present study was to evaluate the health status examination of this seropositive animal care worker in our pre-vious study. methods: blood samples were taken from five workers. cia test was ap-plied to detect antibodies against e. cuniculi in blood serum. the indirect immunofluo...

We investigate the design of electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) using full optical-field reconstruction in 10Gbit/s on-off keyed transmission systems limited by optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR). By effectively suppressing the impairment due to low-frequency component amplification in phase reconstruction, properly designing the transmission system configuration to combat fiber nonline...

[Purpose] This study was conducted to examine physical status and life satisfaction of workers in Korea. [Subjects] In total, 25,455 workers from eight geographical areas were evaluated from 2007 to 2008. [Methods] Physical status of the subjects was measured based on cardiopulmonary endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and explosive muscular strength, and a life satis...

We model long-run firm performance, management compensation, and corporate governance in a dynamic, nonstationary world. We show that managerial compensation and governance policies, which, in a single-period context, can best be rationalized by self-serving managerial influence over board policy, are shareholder-wealth maximizing in a dynamic setting. For example, shareholder wealth is maximiz...

In 2009, the Dutch government launched the Wikiwijs project to increase the use, development and sharing of digital learning materials. Wikiwijs mainly offers Open Educational Resources (OER) through a freely accessible website. Although not all resources are freely available, most of Wikiwijs’s learning materials are published under an open licence. Even though part of the educational resource...