This is the first of a series of papers in which we describe social relationships among mentally disabled adults who worked in four sheltered workshops. In this paper, procedures for observing and interviewing clients and for interviewing staff members were described, and data on reliability and general levels of social behavior were reported. Reliability of social behavior was significant acro...

Abstract Dozens of Roman tile kilns have come to light in Pannonia during the last one hundred years. This paper summarizes published manufacturing workshops present-day Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia. In first part it gives a short general overview structure workshop, discusses problems defining kilns, describes parts themselves outlines systems classifications. The second des...

The case study method supported by interviews is used widely by IS researchers. In ‘messy’ problems, such as the adoption of e-procurement across manufacturing supply chains, a more collaborative approach is needed to explore and make sense of the problem domain. This paper proposes the use of qualitative politicised influence diagrams QPID – to enable the investigator to structure the process ...

The Mental Health Action Checklist for a Better Workplace Environment (MHACL) is a tool for a worker participatory approach to improve work environments for worker mental health. The present study investigated the effects of an organizational intervention using the MHACL on reducing job stressors and the psychological distress of workers of a manufacturing enterprise in Japan with a controlled ...

One of the airborne pollutants in wood products industry is formaldehyde, which may pose some health effects. Therefore this study is conducted to determine formaldehyde levels in 100 furniture-manufacturing workshops in Ankara and also to determine the symptoms, which may be related with formaldehyde exposure among the workers. Indoor formaldehyde levels ranged from 0.02 ppm to 2.22 ppm with a...

The integration of AI-enabled solutions in manufacturing is creating unprecedented challenges to design human-centric, safe and trusted systems. As opposed designing a system with as little human input possible, humans will still be expected continue playing vital role the design, operation, control AI supported Yet, till now, there has been discussion what requirements human-centric designs mi...

The need for standardization is important all sectors starting from industrial manufacturers to delivering it the consumers. acceptance of AM in aspects manufacturing always subjected a lack additive standards. This issue being addressed by an eminent group researchers, and scientists organizations over last three decades developing desired qualified standards manufacturing. However, ASTM) ISO ...