Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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EVALUATION OF OCCUPATIONAL RISKS IN ROUNT-TRIP OPERATIONS WHEN DRILLING OIL AND GAS WELLS
The article presents the analysis of occupational risks when performing round-trip operations during drilling oil and gas wells and provides simple and easy-to-understand methods of occupational risk management.
R. R. Shangareyev
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Promotion of occupational therapy as a career: A survey of occupational therapy managers [PDF]
A careers pack distributed to 184 occupational therapy managers in and around London contained a questionnaire which gathered information about their role in promoting occupational therapy as a career.
Christine Craik +3 more
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Expert Perspective: Toward Treat‐to‐Target Management in Adult Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
Treat‐to‐target (T2T) has transformed the management of several rheumatic diseases through predefined therapeutic goals, structured disease assessment, and timely treatment adjustment. Despite major advances in the understanding and treatment of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), a formal T2T framework for adult IIM has not yet been established.
Shiri Keret +2 more
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Effects of Gender and Recurrent Low Back Pain on Lifting Style
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of gender and existing, recurrent low back pain (rLBP) on lower extremity and trunk mechanics, as well as neuromuscular control, during a lift task.
Ram Haddas, Philip Sizer, James Yang
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Definition and assessment of specific occupational demands concerning lifting, pushing, and pulling based on a systematic literature search [PDF]
Aims: (I) To find a universal strategy for the identification of specific demands of a job or task, focusing on occupations in which there may be an increased risk for health complaints owing to these specific demands.
Bos, J. +4 more
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Dissecting the dissection laboratory: Elements for designing a human anatomy laboratory
Abstract The human anatomy dissection laboratory is a critical component of anatomical and medical education. Development, maintenance, and stocking of these laboratory spaces have unique demands, with all of the challenges in running a laboratory with Biosafety Laboratory Level 2 (BSL‐2) classification, housing a large volume of tissues saturated with
Rhiannon E. Robinson +13 more
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Occupational exposures and sick leave during pregnancy: results from a Danish cohort study
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate associations between work postures, lifting at work, shift work, work hours, and job strain and the risk of sick leave during pregnancy from 10–29 completed pregnancy weeks in a large cohort of Danish pregnant ...
Mette Lausten Hansen +4 more
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A Smart, Textile-Driven, Soft Exosuit for Spinal Assistance
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are often caused by repetitive lifting, making them a significant concern in occupational health. Although wearable assist devices have become the norm for mitigating the risk of back pain, most spinal ...
Kefan Zhu +13 more
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Fractional Wavelet Transform Using an Unbalanced Lifting Structure [PDF]
In this article, we introduce the concept of fractional wavelet transform. Using a two-channel unbalanced lifting structure it is possible to decompose a given discrete-time signal x[n] sampled with period T into two sub-signals x1[n] and x2[n] whose ...
Y. H. Habiboğlu +6 more
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