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A strategy for evaluating occupational risk factors of musculoskeletal disorders
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-03)
There is a large and increasing incidence of work-related muscoloskeletal disorders, both upper extremity cumulative trauma disorders and low back pain. Several occupational risk factors have been linked with the development ...
A Cross-Sectional Assessment of the ACGIH TLV for Hand Activity Level
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-03)
The ACGIH Worldwide Threshold Limit Value (TLV) for hand activity “considers average hand activity level or “HAL” and peak hand force.” We report cross-sectional data that assess the validity of the TLV with respect to ...
Drinking water and cancer mortality
(Elsevier, 1986-09)
The problem of understanding the possible adverse health effects of organic chemical contaminants in drinking water is not new, but national concern has intensified in recent years. Despite this concern and regulatory ...
A PC program to aid in the choice of the design matrix in multiple linear regression
(Elsevier, 1993-07)
A PC program, DESIGN, which can be used to evaluate and compare alternative choices of the design matrix, X, in the general linear model Y = X[beta] + [epsilon] is described, illustrated and made available to interested ...
Smokers' self-categorization and the reduction of cognitive dissonance
(Elsevier, 1979)
Sixty per cent of a sample of smokers who smoked between one and two packages of cigarettes per day considered themselves "moderate" smokers, while the remaining 40% considered themselves "heavy" smokers. This study compares ...
Automatic segmentation and quantification of electron micrographs: Extracellular components
(Elsevier, 1985-12)
Extracellular glycosaminoglycans when precipitated by tannic acid, appear in electron micrographs as amorphous reticulate masses or fragments sometimes finely beaded and often associated with collagen fibrils. An algorithm ...
Knowledge of and Agreement with Chronic Pain Diagnosis: Relation to Affective Distress, Pain Beliefs and Coping, Pain Intensity, and Disability
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-03)
Many authors report that a high percentage of patients with chronic pain have no or insufficient underlying physical pathology to explain their pain. Even when patients do have an identified diagnosis, many patients profess ...
Factors Affecting Students' Use of MEDLINE
(Elsevier, 1993-12)
MEDLINE search transcripts by a class of third-year medical students were analyzed. The 184 students were divided into three groups according to their search experience in terms of the number of sessions logged at the time ...
Keeping stem cells under control: New insights into the mechanisms that limit niche‐stem cell signaling within the reproductive system
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2016-08)
Effects of nicotine abstinence and menstrual phase on task performance
(Elsevier, 1994)
Both menstrual phase and nicotine have been shown to affect task performance. Though conflicting results have been reported, at least one well-controlled study has demonstrated that women at midluteal phase show superior ...