Lies, damned lies and Brexit statistics. It's not been a good month for anyone espousing evidence-based policy and politics after the chair of the Commons health committee switched from Leave to Remain, citing misuse of data by the Leave campaign.

In 1993, the federal government passed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which gives eligible employees twelve weeks of job-protected unpaid leave from work per year to address family issues. Employees are eligible for family leave under the FMLA if they have worked for their employer for at least a year, accumulating at least 1,250 work hours. Employers are covered if they employ at lea...

background: little attention has been given to the relationship between work-life balance and sickness absence. objective: to investigate the association between poor work-life balance and sickness absence in 4 nordic welfare states. methods: multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed on pooled cross-sectional data of workers aged 15–65 years from denmark, finland, sweden, and nor...

today, the work-family conflict is a challenge to nurses and nursing. in this regard, the ghaem hospital's 448 nurses making random sample of 100 individuals were studied. to analysis collected data, partial least squares (pls) and haland procedures were employed.the results were significant and positive relationship between the variables of a conflict between people intention to leave, and wor...

Many dynamical networks, such as the ones that produce the collective behavior of social insects, operate without any central control, instead arising from local interactions among individuals. A well-studied example is the formation of recruitment trails in ant colonies, but many ant species do not use pheromone trails. We present a model of the regulation of foraging by harvester ant (Pogonom...

PURPOSE To determine the influence of gender on weekly work hours of Ontario dentists. METHODS In 2012, a 52-item survey was sent to a random sample of 3000 Ontario dentists (1500 men and 1500 women) to collect information on personal, professional and sociodemographic characteristics. The resulting data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and linear regression modeling. RESULTS The ...