BACKGROUND Changes in industries and work practices have coincided with work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of MSDs and to assess postural loading in assembly workers of an Iranian telecommunication manufacturing company. METHODS Data were collected from 193 randomly selected workers in 4 units of the company. The Nordic musculos...

Introduction and Aim: Fish processing industries have been showing tremendous growth in recent years. Various modern technologies equipment are incorporated the fish plants. Some of tasks plants yet involve manual handling. Prolong working wet environment awkward confined posture leads to development musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). The current study aimed at evaluating prevalence work-related...

Background The seafood processing industry has been developing and providing marked contribution to Vietnam's economic growth in recent years. However, information on working conditions and their impacts to workers' health in this sector, focusing on musculoskeletal problems in female workers, has been poorly documented. Objectives This paper examines the prevalence of after-shift musculoskel...

When a non-Newtonian fluid is subjected to a large strain field, nonlinear effects become important and Curie’s principle breaks down. It consequently becomes possible for the strain field to modify the diffusive mass current and the self-diffusion coefficient becomes a second rank tensor with field dependent components. This behavior can be of importance in some chemical engineering applicatio...

OBJECTIVE Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are commonly experienced in dentistry. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of ergonomics and MSDs among dental professionals. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 170 dentists of different specialties. The questionnaire gathered information regarding demographic details, MSDs, work duration, workin...

AIM The Multicenter Study Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma (MSDS) is an ongoing study in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland on the clinical benefit of adjuvant external beam radiotherapy (RTx) for locally invasive differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) in TNM stages pT4 pN0/1/x M0/x (5th ed. 1997). METHODS MSDS was designed as a prospective randomized trial. Patients receive thyroidectomy, rad...

Objectives: This study aimed to identify the annual and weekly prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) and their relation to demographic characteristics, such as Body Mass Index (BMI), work experience, and physical activity in spinner workers in the textile industry. We also conducted a comparison between the annual and weekly prevalence of MSDs.  Methods: The study sample included 700 ...

Introduction: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are increa­ singly becoming a nuisance for dental professionals. Nearly, 2 million workers across the world suffer from MSDs each year, with dentists facing an increased risk of developing these ailments. This study is an attempt to assess the risk of MSDs among dental professionals, and eventually to spread awareness regar­ ding the importance of ...

Currently, most Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) only deal with the interaction between the system and one speaker. In some situations, interaction may occur between several speakers and the system. This paper proposes methods for the Multi-Speaker Dialogue System (MSDS) which allows user to retrieve useful information such as navigation guide, weather forecast, etc., in the car environment. The d...