background: sick leave from work due to psychiatric disorders is a major public health problem, not only in japan but also worldwide. as males and females in japan tend to differ in their approach to work, a gender difference in perfectionism might be expected. we investigated the background factors leading to long-term absence from work due to sickness among psychiatric outpatients in japan . ...

BACKGROUND The history of sickness absence has been found to predict future sickness absence. AIMS To establish the review period of historical sickness absence data that is needed to predict future sickness absence. METHODS The individual number of days and episodes of sickness absence were ascertained for 762 hospital employees from 2004 to 2008 inclusive. Past sickness absence was includ...

The low-temperature form of the equilibrium relativistic mass distribution is subject to the Galilean limit by taking c → ∞. In this limit the relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution passes to the usual nonrelativistic form and the Dulong-Petit law is recovered.

Reading epilepsy is associated with a variety of perceptual, motor and/or high level cognitive factors. A case of primary reading epilepsy is reported in which comprehension was the effective stimulus in provoking epileptiform activity.

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