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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agricultural soils offer great potential for carbon sequestration through humus formation. One way to motivate farmers to build up humus is through humus programs. These are still at an early stage of development, poorly explored, and the number of participating farmers is low. Our aim is to explain the heterogeneity of farmers' willingness to
Julia B. Block +2 more
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European Union Pension Directive [PDF]
, 2003 [Excerpt] This Directive thus represents a first step on the way to an internal market for occupational retirement provision organised on a European scale. By setting the ‘prudent person’ rule as the underlying principle for capital investment and making
The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Combining machine learning and probabilistic statistical learning is a powerful way to discover and design new materials. A variety of machine learning approaches can be used to identify promising candidates for target applications, and causal inference can help identify potential ways to make them a reality.
Jonathan Y. C. Ting, Amanda S. Barnard
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2002 Worker perception of risk influences worker behavior and consequently exposure to risks. However, an inverse relationship between perception of occupational risks and work-related injuries has not yet been clearly established.
Cordeiro Ricardo
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Hand injury from pneumatic needle gun
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2018 A 37-year-old male complained of pain and swelling of his left hand for 7 days. He was a woodworker and reported that he was using a pneumatic needle gun when the pain began. The patient claimed to have seen a scorpion in the workplace and he believed to
Rodolfo Mendes Queiroz +1 more
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Ill-Defined Benefits: The Uncertain Present and Brighter Future of Employee Pensions in Canada [PDF]
Attempts to shore up the classic single-employer, defined-benefit pension plan are the wrong response to Canada’s occupational pension problems. While tax and regulatory changes can help, Canadians need a new approach to retirement income that will pool ...
David Laidler, William B.P. Robson
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The New Zealand workforce survey II: occupational risk factors for asthma.
, 2010 INTRODUCTION: We conducted a cross-sectional population-based survey in New Zealand that collected information on work history, current workplace exposures, and selected health outcomes. We report here the findings on occupational risk factors for asthma
'T Mannetje, Andrea +6 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Health inequalities persist along lines of income and wealth, shaped by unequal access to healthcare, differences in health behaviors, and pre‐existing chronic conditions. The COVID‐19 pandemic further put families in Korea under health strain and worsened their health outcomes.
Jaehyun Nam +3 more
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Do Variations in State Consultation Programs Affect Construction Fatality Rates?
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Along with its enforcement program, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has a voluntary consultation program that responds to requests from firms to identify hazards at their workplaces. We studied the effects of this program on fatal work injuries in the construction industry.
Wayne B. Gray, John Mendeloff
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Avaliação dos riscos ambientais na sala de abate de um matadouro de bovinos
Saúde em DebateRESUMO Estudo não experimental, descritivo qualitativo, que objetivou identificar os riscos ambientais que possam comprometer a saúde ou representar risco de acidentes no trabalho em matadouros.
Gabriela Chaves Marra +3 more
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