OBJECTIVE To assess the association between job strain and binge eating as well as the effect-modifying influence of body mass index (BMI) on this association. METHODS A total of 11,951 active civil servants from the multicenter Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) was included in this cross-sectional analysis. Job strain was assessed using the Demand-Control-Support Que...

The estimate of a parallel job’s running time (walltime) is an important attribute used by resource managers and job schedulers in various scenarios, such as backfilling and short-job-first scheduling. This value is provided by the user, however, and has been repeatedly shown to be inaccurate. We studied the workload characteristic based on a large amount of historical data (over 275,000 jobs i...

To clarify the correlation between kitchen work-related burns and cuts and job stress, a self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted involving 991 kitchen workers among 126 kitchen facilities. The demographics, condition of burns and cuts, job stress with the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (BJSQ), health condition, and work-related and environmental factors were surveyed. Multiple logi...

This paper modifies the standard Mortensen-Pissarides job matching model in order to explain the cyclical behavior of vacancies and unemployment. The modifications include strategic wage bargaining (Hall and Milgrom, 2006) and convex labor adjustment costs. The results reveal that our model replicates the cyclical behavior of both variables remarkably well. First, we show that strategic wage ba...

more general condition which it reflects, and is not caused by inherent characteristics of the work itself, nor by lack of mental ability, physical deficiency, or technical unfitness. Adjustment to the job "always implies a fairly adequate emotional adjustment of the individual to all the various major aspects of social life?to superiors, to inferiors, to competitive situations, to family situa...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of occupational stress and physical symptoms among family medicine residents and investigate the effect of subscales of occupational stress on physical symptoms. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire survey of 1,152 family medicine residents was carried out via e-mail from April 2010 to July 2010. The response rate was 13.1% a...

This paper describes a methodology of automatic genetic algorithm parameters adjustment dedicated to a job-shop problem with a no-wait constraint with a makespan criterion. The numerical results show that in a given problem, the efficiency of an algorithm with auto-tuning is placed at the level of an algorithm steered in a classical way with the best-fit steering parameters.

OBJECTIVES Professional burnout is closely related to work stress but less frequently associated with disturbed sleep. This study determines whether job strain and sleep disturbances are associated risk factors of burnout among financial workers. DESIGN Observational study. PARTICIPANTS 1300 employees (725 female) of a financial company. PRIMARY MEASURES Self-reported questionnaires (Masl...

BACKGROUND It has been argued that the association between job strain and health could be confounded by early life exposures, and studies have shown early adversity to increase individual vulnerability to later stress. We therefore investigated if early life exposure to adversity increases the individual's physiological vulnerability job strain in adulthood. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In ...

OBJECTIVE To explore associations between self-reported hypertension and workplace psychosocial factors that are common among U.S. workers and to identify industries and occupations (I&Os) that are associated with a high prevalence of hypertension, even after adjustment for common known risk factors. METHODS Data from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey were used to examine relationship...