ABSTRACT Fifty-four clients (13to 52-years-old) in an Appalachian sheltered,workshopww9,re,administered the Slosson Drawing Coordination Test ODCT) and the BeWder Visual Motor Gestalt Test. Twenty-nine Ss were labeled possibly brain damaged by the SDCT, and 17 Ss by the M. Hutt scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt. Two psychologists using all available data and clinical judgment classified onl...

In this study, we used Andersen's Behavioral Model with the family as a unit of analysis to examine the patterns of awareness and utilization of social services by families with at least one adult with intellectual disabilities. Face-to-face interview questionnaires were conducted with primary family caregivers in Hsinchu City, Taiwan in 2004. Data were collected on adults' and caregivers' pred...

Public participation is now part of many decision making processes for managing environmental and technical risks. This article describes a test of a strategy to improve the quality of public input by combining themes from risk communication with the prescriptive decision process of value-focused thinking. It was hypothesized that participating in a structured, value-focused risk communication ...

conclusions there are a wide range of requirements for disaster aid. proper aid worker selection, frequent and continuous administration of workshops and drills, and cooperation and alignment of different governmental and private organizations are among the suggested initiatives. results four major themes emerged from the data; 1) psychological support, 2) appropriate clinical skills education,...

Much of the human factors contribution in risk assessment and risk management has been focused on systems or product safety; the profession has a much smaller research base regarding risks to do with regulation, certification and public policy, for example. This paper discusses an explicitly human factors contribution to understanding and managing risk for the inspection and export certificatio...

background and objectives: painting workshops are part of the woodwork (carpentry) industry in which despite advances in technology, the work force fulfills most of the roles in the production process. since such manual activities are often performed with awkward postures due to lack of workers’ awareness and inappropriate design of tools and working conditions, ergonomic assessment of work env...

The SGS risk management process is implemented in full compliance with international standards e. g. ISO 31000, as a minimum requirement. The SGS team is committed to improving the delivery of risk management in terms of statistical processes, facilitated workshops for identification and assessment, development of better graphical communications of risk, more calibrated assessments, off-setting...

The International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) and the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) are two prestigious forums for the exchange of the latest research results in the technological elements and theoretical foundations of data management and database systems. This year, five exciting workshops that focus on emerging topics in data management are co-loca...