Livestock circumstance in Kagawa Prefecture.

Circumstance Elaboration Joint Joint Example Elaboration Elaboration Condition Circumstance

Researchers in discourse have long hypothesized that the nuclei of a rhetorical structure tree provide a good summary of the text for which that tree was built. In this paper, I discuss a psy-cholinguistic experiment that validates this hypothesis , but that also shows that the distinction between nuclei and satellites is not suucient if we want to build summaries of very high quality. I empiri...

Abstract: Effort-reward Imbalance and Low Back Pain among Eldercare Workers in Nursing Homes: A Cross-sectional Study in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan;

Low back pain (LBP) represents a major global burden and the top cause in the years lived with disability. In Japan, workers’ compensation claims for LBP among eldercare workers in nursing homes has increased more than twofold over the past decade, while LBP among many other occupational groups has decreased. Given that the population is rapidly aging in Japan as well as in other highly develop...

Effort-reward imbalance and low back pain among eldercare workers in nursing homes: a cross-sectional study in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

OBJECTIVES To clarify effort-reward imbalance among eldercare workers in nursing homes and to examine the association between the effort-reward imbalance (ERI) and low back pain (LBP) among them. METHODS A total of 549 questionnaires were distributed to a random sample comprising 23% of the 79 special elderly nursing homes in Kagawa in 2013. A total of 467 eldercare workers (response rate 85%...

War Crimes of Circumstance and Convenience

Abortion and Family Formation: Circumstance or Culture?

Research using opinion surveys and abortion-patient censuses has found that opinion and practice on abortion often appear incongruent. This is generally attributed to circumstantial pressures that motivate women to make an atypical choice, conceived in terms of rational utility; but it may also be due to the fact that the socio-cultural values of women having abortions are not representative of...