BACKGROUND Little information exists describing the incidence of heat-related illness (HRI) among non-military working populations. An analysis of HRI cases utilizing workers' compensation data has not been previously reported. METHODS We used both ICD-9 and ANSI Z16.2 codes with subsequent medical record review to identify accepted Washington State Fund workers' compensation claims for HRI o...

This paper examines the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ supply of effort using a three-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period productivity is positive and wages are zero, while third period productivity is zero and wages are positive. The experiment produces strong evidence that deferred compensation increases worker effort; ...

Using a compensation database covering over 50,000 U. S. White Collar employees in 1986 and 1992 this study investigates the relationship between the cash compensation of individuals and the knowledge building strategies of the firms for which they work. Based on the notion that important strategic knowledge inside the firm resides in the memories of the individuals and groups within the firm w...

objective: young’s schema theory provides a theoretical basis that relates coping styles to early maladaptive schemas. this research aimed to identify maladaptive coping strategies including avoidance and over compensation strategies associated with migraine and tension headaches.  methods: the present research was of cross sectional and correlational study type. the measures included headache ...

This paper reports different strategies for electrical dispersion compensation of optical single sideband transmission systems. We investigate and compare the mitigation of the chromatic dispersion impairment using dispersive microstrip lines, Butterworth filters, and hybrid schemes employing an adaptive filter. Simulation results are presented at 10 Gbit/s, proving transmission over 600km of d...

A curvature compensation technique for bandgap voltage references that utilizes an adaptive reference temperature is presented. This compensation technique is intended for high-resolution temperature-stable analogdigital converters. A test circuit had been designed in a 0.6 pn CMOS technology to implement this technique. The reference voltage has a simulated temperature coefficient of 2.3 ~ p m...

This study proposes a real-time video stabilization method to eliminate unwanted vibration, preserve the intended movement of camera, and improve the stability of the captured video sequence. The proposed method uses a functional neural fuzzy network to learn the characteristics of different vibrations and then choose the adequate compensation weight for two different methods to calculate the c...

An improved clock-feedthrough compensation scheme for switched current system is proposed. Both the signal dependent and the constant clock-feedthrough terms are canceled by using both nMOS and pMOS current samplers and by adopting a source replication technique. The proposed current memory cell was fabricated with 0.6m CMOS process. Both experimental and theoretical results on clockfeedthrough...