BACKGROUND Both smoking and obesity are separately associated with sickness absence. Unhealthy lifestyle habits and health conditions may occur concurrently yet studies focusing on their joint association are few. This study examined the joint associations of smoking and obesity with sickness absence (SA). METHODS A mail survey among employees of the City of Helsinki, Finland, during 2000-200...

BACKGROUND Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicide attempts (SA) lie on a continuum of self-harm, and literature has shown that patients with suicidal intent constitute a more severe group. METHOD This study aimed to explore differences in the facets of hopelessness (Beck Hopelessness Scale) and meaning in life (Purpose in Life Test) in a clinical sample of 150 patients with a diagnosis o...

Due to the exibility in adapting to diierent tness landscapes, self-adaptive evolutionary algorithms (SA-EAs) have been gaining popularity in the recent past. In this paper, we postulate the properties that SA-EA operators should have for successful applications. Speciically, population mean and variance of a number of SA-EA operators, such as various real-parameter crossover operators and self...

Patterned self-assembly is a process whereby coloured tiles self-assemble to build a rectangular coloured pattern. We propose selfassembly (SA) hypergraph automata as an automata-theoretic model for patterned self-assembly. We investigate the computational power of SAhypergraph automata and show that for every recognizable picture language, there exists an SA-hypergraph automaton that accepts t...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of self-harm, suicidal ideation (SI), and suicide attempts (SA) in older adults in the emergency department (ED), including differences according to age, sex, and race and ethnicity. DESIGN Quasi-experimental, multiphase, eight-center study with prospective review of consecutive charts during enrollment shifts (November 2011-December 2014). SETTING Eigh...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the implication of personality, impulsivity, and emotion regulation difficulties in patients with a bulimic-spectrum disorder (BSD) and suicide attempts (SA), BSD patients with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and BSD patients without these behaviors. METHOD One hundred and twenty-two female adult BSD patients were assessed using self-report ques...

Introduction The Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique (SAGAT), is a global tool developed to assess SA across all of its elements based on a comprehensive assessment of operator SA requirements (Endsley, 1987b; 1988b; 1990c). Using SAGAT, a simulation employing a system of interest is frozen at randomly selected times and operators are queried as to their perceptions of the situation...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Deficits of self-awareness (SA) are very common after severe acquired brain injury (sABI), especially in traumatic brain injury (TBI), playing an important role in the efficacy of the rehabilitation process. This pilot study provides information regarding two structured group therapies for disorders of SA. METHODS Nine patients with severe TBI were consecutively recruit...

Upon being exposed to a high self-focus, potentially socially threatening situation, excessively socially anxious (SA) individuals were posited to experience amplified negative emotional states, as well as diminished positive emotional, cognitive, and intimacyrelated outcomes. Ninety-one college students engaged in a reciprocal self-disclosure task with a trained confederate. Participants and c...