course, arising out of the Workmen's Compensation Act, but sometimes under common law as well ; and therefore a review of those decisions which have helped to define what an accident is may not be out of place at a medical meeting. It is curious that neither of the Workmen's Compensation Acts contained this definition, so that the meaning of the term has tended to vary case by case. Prior to th...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how subjective perceptions of everyday occupations, activity level, day centre attendance, social interaction, self-mastery and clinical factors were related to how unemployed people with psychiatric disabilities (PD) envision a future worker role, also controlling for socio-demographic variables. PARTICIPANTS 175 people with PD; 93 attended a day centre and 82 did no...

The primary care NP has a significant opportunity to meet the special healthcare needs of the occupational community. While NPs routinely diagnose and treat workers, writing return-to-work restrictions can pose a challenge.

Physicians engaged in management of burn patients in India need to keep themselves abreast with the legal requirements. Clinical burn management and liaison with local authorities go almost parallel. Concept of the legal rights of Burn Survivor and the family are emerging now in India. Demarcation between physical impairment status and disability to sustain are discussed. Burn Physicians can he...

INTRODUCTION The vulnerability of children under 5 years old requires paying more attention to the health of this group. In the Iranian health care system, health workers are the first line of human resources for health care in rural areas. Because most health workers begin working in conditions with minimal facilities, their clinical qualifications are crucial. The aim of this study was to det...

The arrival of spring means yet another round in the national debate over executive compensation. But the critics have it wrong. The relentless attention on how much CEOs are paid diverts public attention from the real problem-how CEOs are paid. The authors present an in-depth statistical analysis of executive compensation. The study incorporates data on thousands of CEOs spanning five decades....

We describe a reflection scheme that allows Bragg-spaced semiconductor quantum wells to be used to trap, store, and release light. We study the temporal and spectral distortion of delayed light pulses and show that this geometry allows multibit delays and offers a high degree of distortion compensation.