Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be caused by life threatening illness, such as cancer and coronary events. The study by Forbes et al. made the unexpected finding that military personnel evacuation with medical illness have similar rates of PTSD to those evacuated with combat injuries. It may be that the illness acts as a nonspecific stressor that interacts with combat exposures to inc...

Today’s physicians and nurses working in operating rooms and intensive care units have to deal with an ever increasing amount of data. More and more medical devices are delivering information, which has to be perceived and interpreted in regard to patient status and the necessity to adjust therapy. The combination of high information load and insufficient usability creates a severe challenge fo...

BACKGROUND In 2012, the Alaska Section of Epidemiology investigated personnel potentially exposed to a Brucella suis isolate as it transited through three laboratories. METHODS We summarize the first implementation of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2013 revised recommendations for monitoring such exposures: (1) risk classification; (2) antimicrobial postexposure ...

Though transactive memory systems (TMS) help improve group performance by increasing the ability of groups to coordinate and specialize, little work has investigated under what conditions TMS is more or less helpful for a group. Past work has explored ways that TMS can be disabled, such as through member turnover, but both turnover and role change after turnover could alter a group’s ability or...

In the Wason-Selection Task debate it has been suggested that people may be able to detect cheaters but not co-operators or altruists. This position has been challenged. Here we focus on a scenario that is more ecologically valid with regard to different strategies for detecting workers who negatively interact with others (here ‘egoists’) and positive interactors (here ‘altruist’). The results ...

In this paper, based on the literature review, an investigation about Chinese enterprises’ talent recruitment in enterprise innovation activities has been carried out more than 10 provinces of China in 2009. We found that: (1) the positive personnel turnover does not fully serve the innovation projects; (2) new employees are mainly graduates and bachelors, and enterprises emphasize loyalty and ...

Although English verbs can be either regular (walk-walked) or irregular (sing-sang), "denominal verbs" that are derived from nouns, such as the use of the verb ring derived from the noun a ring, take the regular form even if they are homophonous with an existing irregular verb: The soldiers ringed the city rather than *The soldiers rang the city. Is this regularization due to a semantic differe...

he aim of this study is to analyze the impact of nepotism on the employee performance and to find out what kind of a strategic move can be nepotism in the presence of such a relation. Although personnel selection through nepotism which is also known as family or acquaintance partiality causes a certain amount of disadvantages, it is possible at the same time to have more loyal employees to the ...