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Trends in gender differences in accidents mortality [PDF]
This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98.
Ingrid Waldron +2 more
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Abel Afework,1 Aiggan Tamene,2 Abera Tafa,1 Amanuel Tesfaye,1 Sisay Gemede1 1Infection Prevention and Control Department, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia; 2Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Wachemo University, Wachemo, EthiopiaCorrespondence:
Tafa A +4 more
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Small Polity, Hybrid Administration, International Research: Public Administration in Switzerland
ABSTRACT Switzerland presents a most peculiar political system whose institutional idiosyncrasies shape not only the practice of public administration but also the scientific study thereof. This country study presents the development and state of both public administration as practice and Public Administration as a scholarly discipline.
Fritz Sager +2 more
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ABSTRACT The present study examines diversity in corporate offending. Corporations can be diverse or rather specialized in their pattern of rule violating behavior. Offending diversity (or crime mix) constitutes an important dimension of the criminal career and different theories of offending lead to different predictions with regard to the extent of ...
Marieke H. A. Kluin +2 more
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Costs and Benefits of Preventing Workplace Accidents: The Case of Participatory Ergonomics [PDF]
This paper provides a cost-benefit analysis of a participatory ergonomics program conducted at the beginning of the 1990s to reduce back-related disorders among packers at a warehouse of the Société des Alcools du Québec in Quebec City.
Paul Lanoie, Sophie Tavenas
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New Labor Governance? The German Supply Chain Act and National Governance Mechanisms in Brazil
ABSTRACT Due diligence laws respond to labor governance challenges and to a lack of public governance addressing human rights violations in Global Value Chains. Despite ongoing contestation, the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act seeks to hold German‐based firms accountable for human rights risks in their supply chains.
Helena Gräf
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Costs and Benefits of Preventing Workplace Accidents : Going from a Mechanical to a Manual Handling System [PDF]
This paper provides a cost-benefit analysis of the passage from a mechanical to a manual handling system that took place at the beginning of the 1990s at a warehouse of the Société des Alcools du Québec in Montreal.
Louis Trottier, Paul Lanoie
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Abstract Acute heat stress reduces cerebral haemodynamics and orthostatic tolerance. However, the haemodynamic response to orthostasis during prolonged heat stress typical of heatwaves is unknown. We hypothesised that thermoregulatory‐induced elevations in peripheral haemodynamics during 3 days of simulated heatwave would exacerbate orthostatic‐induced
Alexander T. Friend +11 more
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This is the 22nd annual statistical report of the National Cancer Registry. This report summarises cancer incidence, mortality and survival in Ireland for the period 1994-2015, and provides projected estimates for incidence for the most recent three-year
National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI)
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Rethinking Mistrust: Elements Toward a Situated Theory on Immigrant Workers
ABSTRACT This article explores mistrust as a socially situated phenomenon by using the care trajectories of injured immigrant workers in Québec as a conceptual entry point. Rather than focusing on the individual characteristics of trusters, it examines how mistrust emerges from a subjective evaluation of environments perceived as threatening.
Maude Arsenault, Daniel Côté
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