Purpose – The opposite of absenteeism, presenteeism, is the phenomenon of employees staying at work when they should be off sick. Presenteeism is an important problem for organizations, because employees who turn up for work, when sick, cause a reduction in productivity levels. The central aim of the present study is to examine the longitudinal relationships between job demands, burnout (exhaus...

We recently developed a high intensity one leg dynamic exercise (OLDE) protocol to measure muscle endurance and investigate the central and peripheral mechanisms of muscle fatigue. The aims of the present study were to establish the reliability of this novel protocol and describe the isokinetic muscle fatigue induced by high intensity OLDE and its recovery. Eight subjects performed the OLDE pro...

Prospective studies on the role of psychosocial factors in heart failure development are virtually nonexistent. The authors aimed to address the effect of psychosocial factors on the risk of heart failure hospitalization in men and women free of cardiovascular disease. In 1991–1993, the 8,670 participants of the Copenhagen City Heart Study (Denmark) were asked comprehensive questions on major l...

In the study of complex flag manifolds, flag domains and their cycle spaces, a key point is the fact that the cycle space MD of a flag domain D is a Stein manifold. That fact has a long history; see [4]. The earliest approach ([9], [11]) relied on construction of a strictly plurisubharmonic exhaustion function on MD, starting with a q–convex exhaustion function on D, where q is the dimension of...