A physical activity is a key factor contributing to the improvement and maintenance of one's general health. Although this issue is by no means limited to the workplace, it is precisely the work environment that can provide the basis for keeping and reinforcing more health-conscious attitudes and lifestyles, including programs promoting a physical activity. The paper presents an analysis of the...

OBJECTIVES To assess consequences of physical violence at work and identify their predictors. METHODS Among the patients in a medicolegal consultation from 2007 to 2010, the subsample of workplace violence victims (n = 185) was identified and contacted again in average 30 months after the assault. Eighty-six victims (47 %) participated. Ordinal logistic regression analyses assessed the effect...

Boxing is one of the oldest combat sports. The aim of the current review is to critically analyze the amateur boxer's physical and physiological characteristics and to provide practical recommendations for training as well as new areas of scientific research. High-level male and female boxers show a propensity for low body fat levels. Although studies on boxer somatotypes are limited, the avail...

Defi nition The Workplace Safety and Health Council defi nes workplace aggression6 as being not limited to physical violence, or to the geographical worksite. It is any abuse, including verbal, physical or emotional abuse and sexual harassment of healthcare providers resulting in injury, psychological harm, mal-development or deprivation. This is commonly termed “healthcare violence”. Perpetrat...

physical properties of fruits and vegetables are the subject of many researches because of its importance in designing of agricultural machinery. banana fruit is one of important fruit. in this study some physical properties of banana fruit (cavendish variety) were determined. properties which were measured included weight of whole fruit peel and pulp weight, dimensions, surface area and projec...

background: workplace violence has become an issue of increasing concern. residents are often the first physician that patients will meet them. objectives: we conducted this study to evaluate workplace violence against medical residents in iran. materials and methods: in a cross sectional questionnaire based study we asked 1107 medical residents about violence exposure during past 12 months. re...

The digital workplace is widely acknowledged as an important organizational asset for optimizing knowledge worker productivity. While there is no particular research stream on the digital workplace, scholars have conducted intensive research on related topics. This study aims to summarize the practical implications of the current academic body of knowledge on the digital workplace. For this pur...

Recently, many organizations have attempted to build hypermedia systems to expand their working areas into Internet-based virtual workplaces. Thus, it is important to manage corporate hypermedia documents effectively. Metadata plays a critical role for managing these documents. This paper identifies metadata roles and components to build a metadata schema. Furthermore, a meta-information system...