Information Science (IS) scholars have long articulated the importance of physical and social factors—environments— when examining how individuals acquire, store, organize, maintain, and retrieve information in one of their home or work lives. Yet, few have raised the question of how these same information practices are altered and affected in home offices, fused living and working spaces that ...

 Background: Training of pediatric residents is a dynamic process which should be changed as the nature and epidemiology of pediatric diseases change. In this study, we compared the training program of the pediatric residents with the disorders of the pediatric patients who had referred to pediatric offices. Methods: The study was conducted in pediatric offices in Shiraz, South of Iran...

The open-plan office is a layout used in government offices in Brazil aimed at saving on space occupied and integrating employees. However, the design of these work-stations must follow the characteristics of tasks and their interrelationships, since adverse physical and organizational conditions may have a negative impact on work productivity. From this perspective, this study sought to identi...