BACKGROUND The etiology of Dupuytren's disease is unknown, and the role of occupational exposure is still debated. Our objective was to study the association between occupational exposures, personal risk factors and Dupuytren's disease. METHODS In this cross-sectional survey, nine occupational physicians performed clinical examinations, focused on Dupuytren's disease, of 2,406 French male civ...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E For an organization to improve the quality of its software products and processes, it is important that individual developers have disciplined personal processes.2 We can observe the performance of an individual’s software process through particular attributes, such as lines of code developed per hour (LOC/hour) or number of defects per thou...

Mobile devices, sensors and social networks have dramatically increased the collection and sharing of personal and contextual information of individuals. Hence, users constantly make disclosure decisions on the basis of a difficult trade-off between using services and data protection. Understanding the factors linked to the disclosure behavior of personal information is a step forward to assist...

Background: Adolescence is one of the most important periods of life for all people. This is a transition period from childhood to adulthood, through which individuals should learn to make the right decisions and apply the life skills. This study aimed to explain the life skills' experiences of 12-14 year-old female adolescen...

W HAT one sees, what one observes, is inevitably what one selects from a near infinitude of potential percepts. Perceptual selection depends not only upon the "primary determinants of attention" but is also a servant of one's interests, needs, and values. Can one lean on the slender reed of "the limited span of attention" and its primary determinants to explain the selectivity of perception? Th...

This paper is part of ongoing descriptions of Contextual Marketing in SMEs. To date two previous papers have addressed a variety of key factors that contribute to Contextual Marketing. Our first paper, (Carson et al 2002*), addressed the overriding theme of Contextual Marketing and considered issues such as commonalities, triggers, variances, situation specific and language/vocabulary. Our seco...