Occupational therapy practitioners are among the professionals who provide services to children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), embracing both leadership and supportive roles in service delivery. The study's primary aims were as follows: (1) to identify, evaluate, and synthesize the research literature on interventions for ASD of relevance to occupational therapy and (2) to inte...

BACKGROUND The study of mortality differentials by class or socio-economic group is underdeveloped in Ireland in comparison to other countries. The work that has been done has used a standardized mortality ratio (SMR) methodology to measure deaths. There has been no previous work exploring the social gradient in years of potential life lost (YPLL) in Ireland. METHODS The aim is to investigate...

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general socio-economic standing. This paper looks at the patterns of employment in Germany, analyzes how individua...

BACKGROUND Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) is a preventable, but not fully curable occupational lung disease. More and more coal miners are likely to be at risk of developing CWP owing to an increase in coal production and utilization, especially in developing countries. Coal miners with different occupational categories and durations of dust exposure may be at different levels of risk for C...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether common important health conditions and their treatments increase risks of occupational injury. METHODS A systematic search was conducted of MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsycINFO databases from inception to November 2006 employing terms for occupational injury, medications, and a broad range of diseases and impairments. Papers related solely to driving, alcohol, or sub...

Estimates of the IT workforce depend, first, on the definition of “IT worker” used. For example, estimating the number of Category 1 IT workers would yield a very different result (Table B.1) than would estimating the combined total of Category 1 and Category 2 workers (Table B.2). Similarly, estimating the number of individuals in software occupations would be a different exercise from estimat...

OBJECTIVE To identify whether there is evidence of pneumoconiosis and other respiratory health effects associated with exposure to respirable mixed dust and quartz in United Kingdom opencast coalmines. METHODS A cross sectional study of current workers (1224 men, 25 women) was carried out at nine large and medium sized opencast sites in England, Scotland, and Wales. To characterise a range of...

in this article, we have shown, for the add-point monad t, thepartial morphism category set*is isomorphic to the kleisli category sett. alsowe have proved that the category, sett, of t-algebras is isomorphic to thecategory set of pointed sets. finally we have established commutative squaresinvolving these categories.