background: psychologically traumatic workplace events (known as critical incidents) occur within various work environments, with workgroups in certain industries vulnerable to multiple incidents. with the increasing prevalence of incidents in the usa, incident response is a growing practice area within occupational medicine, industrial psychology, occupational social work and other occupationa...

The main purpose of this study is to assess the effects of the interaction patterns between family planning workers and potential clients upon acceptance of family planning. The study was carried out as part of an intercountry collaborative study and guided by UN-ESCAP in 1991. For data collection, a random sampling procedure was applied in picking up the final units of areas (9 "dongs" in Ch...

We investigated the relative contribution of the queen and workers to colony nestmate recognition cues and on colony insularity in the Carpenter ant Camponotus fellah. Workers were either individually isolated, preventing contact with both queen and workers (colonial deprived, CD), kept in queenless groups, allowing only worker-worker interactions (queen deprived, QD) or in queenright (QR) grou...

In this paper, we present a single-shift workforce planning tool: the Head Count Allocation Solver (HCA) for a high volume manufacturing facility with several machine groups at each operation. Each machine group at a given operation requires a number of workers with specified skill levels and qualifications, and each qualified worker has a preference for operations and machine groups based on h...

The goal of this study was to test whether the breeding system and/or the degree of inbreeding of field colonies of the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus, Shiraki (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) influences bacterial load on the cuticle of foraging workers. We enumerated bacterial load on the cuticle of groups of workers foraging in 20 inground monitoring stations surrounding the...

background: self-esteem is one of the basic needs for all individuals especially in adolescence. the aim of this study was to determine associations between adolescents’ self-esteem and perceived maternal parenting styles as well as its dimensions in terms of family type. methods: in this analytic cross-sectional study, 356 high school students (250 two-parent nuclear family and 106 single-pare...

Honeybee colonies are highly integrated functional units characterized by a pronounced division of labor. Division of labor among workers is mainly age-based, with younger individuals focusing on in-hive tasks and older workers performing the more hazardous foraging activities. Thus, experimental disruption of the age composition of the worker hive population is expected to have profound conseq...