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Formal and informal social care in people with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal diseases: a cross‐sectional multicentre survey

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Introduction Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases(RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living(ADLs). This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disperate regions of England: Salford(urban) and Norfolk(rural).
Mehreen Somro, Karen Durrant, William G Dixon, John McBeth, Alex MacGregor, Max Yates, Jenny H Humphreys   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? Implications for BLS Productivity Measures [PDF]

An ongoing debate surrounding BLS productivity data is that official labor productivity measures may be overstating productivity growth because of an increase in unmeasured hours worked outside the traditional workplace. This paper uses both the ATUS and
Eldridge, Lucy P., Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff   +1 more
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A Home-Start peer support scheme for women with low mood following childbirth [PDF]

, 2015
Perinatal mental health problems vary in impact and severity, and can have long-lasting effects on maternal health and child psychological health and development.
Hayter, Mark, Jomeen, Julie, Jones, Catriona C.G.   +2 more
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Developing and Evaluating a Laboratory‐Based Frailty Index (FI‐Lab) for the Prediction of Long‐Term Health Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective We aimed to construct and evaluate the first laboratory‐based frailty index (FI‐Lab) for predicting adverse outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare its predictive ability to that of an existing clinical frailty index (FI).
Grace Burns, Samuel D. Searle, Alexandra Legge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amid and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Internet costs for remote work by university lecturers in Tanzania—who does the cap fit?

Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Sciences
The global COVID-19 pandemic has greatly dis­rupted education worldwide, including in Sub-Saharan Af­rica, which was caught off guard. Remote work has become a viable option for maintaining social distancing, even after the pandemic.
Bikolimana Giliadi Muhihi
doaj   +1 more source

Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Background Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to JIA disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship between cumulative social disadvantage, neighborhood disadvantage, and JIA ...
William Daniel Soulsby, John Boscardin, Andrea Knight, Daniel B. Horton, Karine Toupin‐April, Emily von Scheven, The CARRA Registry Investigators and for the CARRA Health Equity Work Group   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Employee innovation during office work, work from home and hybrid work

Scientific Reports
The Covid-19 pandemic forced firms globally to shift workforces to working from home [WFH]. Firms are now struggling to implement a return to working from the office [WFO], as employees enjoy the significant benefits of WFH for their work-life balance ...
Michael Gibbs, Friederike Mengel, Christoph Siemroth   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inflation taxes, financial intermediation, and home production [PDF]

This paper examines the welfare costs of inflation in the presence of financial market frictions. The results suggest that financing constraints on firms' working capital expenditures significantly increase the welfare costs relative to the standard ...
Milton H. Marquis
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Issues Coupled With International Assignments [PDF]

, 2000
Last month we presented key findings relating to trends in the usage of new forms of international working and highlighted some of the managerial control issues facing international HR managers.
Petrovic, Jelena
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Current Tracking Adaptive Control of Brushless DC Motors

International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, EarlyView.
In this paper, the current tracking for Brushless Direct Current motors is approached considering uncertainty in the parameters of the motor's model. An adaptive control scheme to compensate electrical parameters uncertainty is proposed without requiring any knowledge of the mechanical parameters.
Fernanda Ramos‐García, Axel Coronado‐Andrade, Gerardo Espinosa‐Pérez, Luis Alvarez‐Icaza   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source