This study was undertaken to assess the socio-economic impact of producing export oriented agricultural crops on the livelihoods of the farmers, in eastern Ethiopia. A random sample of 305 farmers was studied. Comparisons were made between producers and non-producers using the Ztest and regression analysis. It was found that producers of export oriented crops are better off than the non-produce...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the predictive relationships between employee health risk factors (HRFs) and workers' compensation (WC) claim occurrence and costs. METHODS Logistic regression and generalised linear models were used to estimate the predictive association between HRFs and claim occurrence and cost among a cohort of 16 926 employees from 314 large, medium an...

Multimodal sensing robots enable promising tasks in the fields of health care and manufacturing. In article number 2002534, Woo Soo Kim co-workers review recent progress on 3D-printed sensing-robot platform technologies. They discuss toward from concept 3D structural electronics integrated into objects, advanced-material 3D-printing strategies used to overcome challenges.

Although thus far no occupational agents have been classified as established causes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), employment as a farmer, teacher, dry cleaner, meat worker, printer, or wood worker has been associated with elevated risk in the peer-reviewed literature. We conducted several meta-analyses to assess risk in these occupations and industries from articles published in MEDLINE up to ...

As the biocompatible materials, hydrogels have been widely used in three- dimensional (3D) bioprinting/organ printing to load cell for tissue engineering. It is important to precisely control hydrogels deposition during printing the mimic organ structures. However, the printability of hydrogels about printing parameters is seldom addressed. In this paper, we systemically investigated the printa...

In article number 2001693 by Dong-Woo Cho and co-workers, the assembling of dual cell-laden tissue modules is proposed for engineering a volumetric non-hypoxic soft construct with combination planar rotational 3D cell printing techniques. The engineered softtissue possessing flexibility, increased capillary formation, adipogenic effect potential platform reconstruction in future.

Nanocomposite Inks In article number 2201496, Bradley Duncan and co-workers present a multimaterial 3D printing approach for fabricating electronic radio frequency devices. Using custom-designed, active mixing nozzle, substrates with continuously varying dielectric properties are produced on-the-fly programmed response. This additive manufacturing platform enables unprecedented control over the...

In article number 2002103, Ruogang Zhao, Chi Zhou, and co-workers, present the development of fast hydrogel stereolithography technology (FLOAT) for fabrication large-sized biocompatible models. The high printing speed FLOAT significantly reduces environmental stress-induced cellular injuries. perfusable vessel networks enabled by multiscale capability allows maintenance viability metabolic fun...