This article discusses the case study of a graduate student who, at the time of the study, was doing an internship, considered in the literature as a new form of precariat (temporary or insecure employment). The student participated in a life construction intervention during which he completed two new qualitative instruments: the Life Adaptability Qualitative Assessment (LAQuA) and the Career C...

Development strategies, in the name of gender-neutral, are gender-blind. The gender blindness of development strategies are derived from the gender-insensitiveness of dominant development paradigms, which, in the name of work, do not make any distinction between productive and reproductive work and does not differentiate, in the name of household, the asymmetries faced by its different members ...

This article describes an innovative approach to reach and educate workers and worker advocates about California's outdoor heat illness prevention standard. In 2010, Cal/OSHA initiated a statewide education campaign to reduce heat-related illnesses and fatalities and increase awareness of the standard's requirements. In Southern California, the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program ...

As in other societies, socioeconomic inequality in Mexico is manifested in disparities in morbidity and mortality rates among the Mexican population. Individuals living under the most precarious socioeconomic conditions display higher rates of child mortality and other health conditions that are often often associated with poor economic development, such as malnutrition. Moreover, Mexicans from...

Past research suggests that relationship quality is low in “precarious couples,” those in which the woman is both critical and more verbally disinhibited than her male partner. Such diminished relationship quality may compromise the capacity of precarious couples to cope with stressors. To test this hypothesis, we exposed 67 married women to an experimentally induced stressor, reunited them wit...

a haploid organism directly leads to an altered phenotype, making forward and reverse genetic approaches more straightforward in haploid moss than in diploid seed plants. A major additional asset of mosses came from the discovery that, in the moss Physcomitrella patens, recombination occurs between DNA introduced into cells by transfection and homologous sequences in its nuclear DNA. This occur...