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There are only two longitudinal studies dealing with precarious employment and mental health in East Asia, the results of which are inconsistent with each other. We concluded that in East Asia precarious employment is associated with mental health problem.

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ABSTRACT:Business processes continue to play an important role in today's service-oriented enterprise computing systems. Mining, discovering, and integrating process-oriented services has attracted growing attention in the recent years. In this paper we present a quantitative approach to modeling and capturing the similarity and dissimilarity between different process designs. We derive the similarity measures by analyzing the process dependency graphs of the participating workflow processes. We first convert each process dependency graph into a normalized process matrix. Then we calculate the metric space distance between the normalized matrices. This distance measure can be used as a quantitative and qualitative tool in process mining, process merging, and process clustering, and ultimately it can reduce or minimize the costs involved in design, analysis, and evolution of workflow systems.

Abstract. Traditionally, resource allocation problem has been considered as one of the important issues in business process management to maintain the acceptable level of each activity completion time which can reduce the total completion time. Especially, the complexity of managing resources increases when the resource type is human because performance of each human resource might fluctuate over time due to various unpredicted factors. Hence, upfront planning of the resource allocation might be unsuitable in this matter. Therefore, this study proposes an on-the-fly resource allocation using Naïve Bayes to manage human resources more efficiently. The term on-the-fly here indicates that the resource allocation planning will be frequently updated and executed during the execution time by considering recent human resource performances. In this paper, we will show the proposed approach exceeds other resource allocation approaches in terms of total completion time.

Objectives:The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between suicidal behavior and patterns of alcohol consumption in Korean adults.Methods:This study was based on data provided by the Korea National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey from 2007 to 2011. A total of 42 347 subjects were included in the study, of whom 19 292 were male and 23 055 were female. Logistic regression analysis was performed to assess the association between patterns of alcohol consumption and suicidal behavior.Results:Among the study subjects, 1426 males (11.3%) and 3599 females (21.2%) had experienced suicidal ideation, and 106 males (0.8%) and 190 females (1.1%) had attempted suicide during the previous 12 months. Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores were found to be associated with suicidal ideation in males and associated with both suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in females. Alcoholic blackouts were associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in males, and were also associated with suicidal ideation in females.Conclusions:In this study, we found that certain patterns of alcohol consumption were associated with suicidal behaviors. In particular, only alcoholic blackouts and categorized AUDIT scores were found to be associated with suicidal behavior in males. We therefore suggest that further research is needed to examine this relationship prospectively and in other settings.