Threshold limit values (TLVs) are intended to protect workers from the severest effects of thermal stress and to establish the exposures to heat in working conditions. Earlier, acute heat strokes often occurred as a result of working in hot environments in Japan. However, acute heat strokes recently sometimes occurred in outdoor work environments such as industrial constructions and agriculture...

This paper addresses the type of engineering practice associated with ‘client-focused interprofessional project teams’ C-fIPPTs which is a typical pattern work consulting companies. To do so, article introduces concepts ‘situated judgment’ and ‘immaterial activity’ to Engineering Studies community. It uses these demonstrate how engineers different specialisms, working alongside architects, inte...

The initial area of application, and source of requirements, is the “distributed knowledge intensive engineering project”, which we believe shows many characteristics which make computer based communication a suitable means for keeping it together: input as well as output is immaterial, (software, specifications, drawings); they are already heavily computerized; and, finally, they are almost al...

The persistence of socioeconomic inequalities in health, even in the highly developed 'welfare states' of Western Europe, is one of the great disappointments of public health. Health inequalities have not only persisted while welfare states were being built up, but on some measures have even widened, and are not smaller in European countries with more generous welfare arrangements. This paper a...

Abstract. The mere ownership effect is an increase in the subjective value of owned objects compared to identical but non-owned objects. We tested whether differs magnitude between material and immaterial (e.g., information). Three hundred participants played incentivized detective game which they had connect clues identify a murderer. Their task was evaluate usefulness or their partners were e...