OBJECTIVE Assess the odds of having an initial claim for statutory sickness benefit awarded (ascribed to mental disorder as the main registered diagnosis), in relation to institutional, clinical, sociodemographic and welfare factors in Juiz de Fora-MG, Brazil. METHOD Two models of logistic regression, taking into account the categories of the medical examiners, were built with the aim of char...

BACKGROUND Providing the mental health service is one of the main tasks of every state. Its implementation obviously depends on the number of professionally active psychiatrists. The aim of the study was to analyze the motives in the choice of the specialization in psychiatry from the perspective of physicians-practitioners. SUBJECTS AND METHODS An original questionnaire, containing 22 questi...

When becoming a specialist, learning-through-service plays a significant role. The workplace affords good opportunities for learning, but the service-learning period may also impose stress on phycisians in specialization training. In medical work, social support has proved to be a very important factor in managing stress. Social support may afford advantages also for learning and professional i...

BACKGROUND Youth athlete specialization has been linked to decreased enjoyment, burnout, and increased injury risk, although the impact of specialization on athletic success is unknown. The extent to which parents exert extrinsic influence on this phenomenon remains unclear. PURPOSE/HYPOTHESIS The goal of this study was to assess parental influences placed on young athletes to specialize. It ...

Specialization and its Application to Program Parallelization Germán Puebla and Manuel Hermenegildo {german,herme}@fi.upm.es Department of Computer Science Technical University of Madrid (UPM) Abstract. Program specialization optimizes programs for known valúes of the input. It is often the case that the set of possible input valúes is unknown, or this set is infinite. However, a form of specia...

There is increasing concern in the United States with the growth of health-care expenditures. The rapid rise in expenditures is particularly troubling given that different areas seem to produce the same amount of health care at very different costs. In fact, a large body of literature documents both wide variation across the country in the quality and quantity of health care produced and the co...

We define a specialization inheritance mechanism for object-oriented programming, admitting covariant redefinition of both methods and instance variables in subclassing. We investigate on the semantic weakness that makes such very flexible inheritance infeasible for a statically type-checked programming language supporting polymorphic assignment and polymorphic method invocation. We show that t...

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Design patterns offer many advantages for software development, but can introduce inefficiency into the final program. Program specialization can eliminate such overheads, but is most effective when targeted by the user to specific bottlenecks. Consequently, we propose that these concepts are complementary. Program specialization can optimize programs written using design patterns, and design p...