OBJECTIVES Mental illness and psychotropic drugs have been linked with workplace injury, but few studies have measured exposures and outcomes independently or established their relative timings. To address this shortcoming, we conducted a case-control study nested within a database prospectively recording injury consultations, diagnoses and drug prescriptions. METHODS The Clinical Practice Re...

We construct quasiconformal mappings in Euclidean spaces by integration of a discontinuous kernel against doubling measures with suitable decay. The differentials of mappings that arise in this way satisfy an isotropic form of the doubling condition. We prove that this isotropic doubling condition is satisfied by the distance functions of certain fractal sets. Finally, we construct an isotropic...

The authors present the central capacity sharing (CCS) model and derive equations describing its behaviors to explain results from dual-task situations. The predictions of the CCS model are contrasted with those of the central bottleneck model. The CCS model predicts all of the hallmark effects of the psychological refractory period (PRP) pardigm: -1 slope of the PRP effect at short stimulus on...

Stimuli that are clearly positive or negative (hence valence-laden stimuli) have the potential to interrupt unrelated task processing. A typical example is the emotional Stroop effect (ESE) in which responding to a certain task feature (e.g., color) is delayed by the presentation of task-irrelevant valent stimuli (e.g., negative pictures) compared to valence-neutral stimuli. Here we scrutinize ...

There are eight essays and an introduction in this excellent monograph. It is concerned particularly with the demographic effects of plague and is aimed at the historian and general reader. General issues are dealt with in articles on 'Some medical aspects of plague' (Leslie Bradley), 'Current medical and epidemiological views on plague' (J. N. Biraben), 'Plague in Britain' (Christopher Morris)...

Le Comtat Venaissin en 1274 et la ville d’Avignon 1348 sont passés sous domination du Saint Siège, jusqu’en 1791. De longue histoire des « Juifs pape » qui ont résidé dans cet espace géographique, il subsiste trois superbes synagogues à Carpentras, Cavaillon Avignon. La présentation détaillée de ces édifices religieux est accompagnée photos.