introduction: job stress is one of the main characteristics of modern life which is increasing and has been recognized as an important risk factor of cardiovascular diseases. the present study was conducted to determine the association between job stress at work environment and cardiovascular diseases. materials and methods: a number of 300 persons including 150 cases and 150 controls were cons...

Prediction about outcomes constitutes a basic mechanism underlying informed economic decision making. A stimulus constitutes a reward predictor when it provides more information about the reward than the environmental background. Reward prediction can be manipulated in two ways, by varying the reward paired with the stimulus, as done traditionally in neurophysiological studies, and by varying t...

The time of reward and the temporal structure of reward occurrence fundamentally influence behavioral reinforcement and decision processes [1-11]. However, despite knowledge about timing in sensory and motor systems [12-17], we know little about temporal mechanisms of neuronal reward processing. In this experiment, visual stimuli predicted different instantaneous probabilities of reward occurre...

offshore employees (expatriates) working abroad are an important part of any organisational workforce, working and competing globally. the specific requirements of expatriates are quite different as compared to the local workforce of that particular company. these requirements range from base salary to the educational needs of their families, children, and spouses. the employers especially work...