This study examines the roles and functions of businesses, labor-exporting countries' representative offices in Taiwan, religious organizations, and manpower agencies in promoting occupational safety and health (OSH). It also offers advice to Taiwanese authorities on making policies and improvements regarding the oversight mechanism mandated by the Labor Safety and Health Act, giving them an id...

OBJECTIVES This study employs a sample population of older workers to estimate an empirical model of leisure exercise activity. Alternative theories relating work and leisure attitudes relevant for understanding the exercise behavior of older workers are tested empirically. METHODS Responses of 6,433 full-time older workers (51 to 61 years old) from the 1992 Health and Retirement Study (HRS)...

STUDY DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to compare and contrast the restrictiveness and tissue-interface pressure (TIP) characteristics of 2 standard and 2 adjustable cervical collars. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA This study compared the restrictiveness and TIP of 4 commercially available cervical collars (2 standard and 2 adjustable). Adjustable collars o...

FREQUENCY (FRQ) is a critical element of the circadian system of Neurospora. The white collar genes are important both for light reception and circadian function. We show that the responsiveness of the light input pathway is circadianly regulated. This circadian modulation extends to light-inducible components and functions that are not rhythmic themselves in constant conditions. FRQ interacts ...

Membranipora chesapeakensis n. sp. was collected on wood substrate in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. Colonies are erect, vermiform or ribbon-shaped to bilaminar, with two back-to-back layers sharing one basal cuticle. There is a minute cryptocyst and a beaded gymnocyst; zoids have 14 tentacles and lack knobs or other decorations in their corners. Closest affinities are with M. tenuis Desor, sens...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the complex relationship between inflammation, mechanical stress and radiographic progression in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), using job type as a proxy for continuous mechanical stress. METHODS Patients from the Outcome in Ankylosing Spondylitis International Study were followed up for 12 years, with 2-yearly assessments. Two readers independently score...

BACKGROUND Historical approaches to protect the brain from outside the skull (eg, helmets and mouthpieces) have been ineffective in reducing internal injury to the brain that arises from energy absorption during sports-related collisions. We aimed to evaluate the effects of a neck collar, which applies gentle bilateral jugular vein compression, resulting in cerebral venous engorgement to reduce...

Beyond the factory floor, there is an even larger opportunity to improve performance. The true world-class competitors have discovered this opportunity and have extended the principles that worked on the factory floor to the upstream processes that feed production, "white collar" factories. They have reorganized their white collar factories, moving away from junctional organization toward proce...

Figure 1. Puncture wound overlying the volar base of the long finger. The formation of a collar button abscess can be seen on both the dorsal and volar sides of the hand. The long and index fingers are abducted at rest.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of actual cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, as well as, individual, psychosocial, and work-related factors as predictors of CVD risk perception among Korean blue-collar workers. METHODS The participants were 238 Korean blue-collar workers who worked in small companies. Data were collected through a survey; anthropometric a...