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Occupancy and Occupants’ Actions

2017
Occupants’ presence and actions within the built environment are crucial aspects related to understanding variations in energy use. Within this chapter, first, a nomenclature for the field of research dealing with occupants in buildings is defined. This nomenclature distinguishes between occupants’ presence and behavior, states and actions, adaptive ...
Schweiker M   +4 more
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Occupational Asthma

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2005
Abstract Substantial epidemiologic and clinical evidence indicates that agents inhaled at work can induce asthma. In industrialized countries, occupational factors have been implicated in 9 to 15% of all cases of adult asthma. Work-related asthma includes (1) immunologic occupational asthma (OA), characterized by a latency period ...
CE Mapp   +3 more
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Putting Occupation Into Practice: Occupation as Ends, Occupation as Means

American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1998
This article addresses a difficulty that many occupational therapists experience: maintaining occupation as the core of their therapeutic intervention. This difficulty not only results from but also contributes to occupational therapy’s struggle with professional identity.
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Occupational asthma

Toxicology Letters, 1985
Occupational asthma is an important occupational respiratory disorder, both in terms of morbidity, disability and in the total number of cases. The two types of occupational asthma are classified on the basis of their temporal relationship to onset. Occupational asthma with latency reflects allergic occupational asthma and is a condition characterized ...
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Occupational asthma

Medical Clinics of North America, 1992
Occupational asthma is recognized as the most common form of occupational lung disease. Over 200 causative substances have been described. Major cases of occupational asthma are discussed along with valuable diagnostic approaches. Early diagnosis and removal of the patient from workplace exposure to the causative substance can prevent progression to ...
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Occupational rhinitis

Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 1992
To define occupational rhinitis, classify its various causes, review the steps in diagnosis, and describe the nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic management principles.A review of MEDLINE articles in English on occupation rhinitis for January 1, 1970, through December 31, 2001, was performed.
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Occupational therapy students’ perceptions of occupational therapy

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 2011
Background/aims:  An understanding of students’ perceptions of occupational therapy on entry is required to recognise how professional socialisation occurs through curriculum. Findings pertain to a qualitative study investigating students’ perceptions of occupational therapy upon entry to two occupational therapy programmes in Australia.Methods ...
Turpin, Merrill June   +2 more
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Occupation and the Relevance of Primatology to Occupational Therapy

American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1993
The adaptive functions of occupation during the phylogenetic history of the human species and the ontogenetic development of individual primates are examined through a review of relevant research of wild and captive nonhuman primates.
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The Law of Occupation Revisited: The Beginning of an Occupation

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 2007
AbstractThis article discusses the criteria for establishing the beginning of an occupation. To this end, it analyzes the wording and drafting history of IHL instruments as well as international case law. It also looks at the influence of human rights law, in particular the notion of “jurisdiction” as used in the ICCPR and the ECHR, on the concept of ...
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Occupations and Occupational Structure

1983
Technological changes are an important element in the distribution of the labour force amongst industries and sectors of the economy, and have a significant influence on the occupational structure. The decrease of employment in agriculture over the past 30 years, and the constancy in the proportion of the labour force employed in manufacturing are ...
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