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Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) leads to early retirement in one-third of patients. The aim of this study is to analyze the difficulties at work and to collect suggestions for support measures at the workplace to maintain the ability to work for...

Self-employed individuals with cancer face unique challenges that have not been fully explored in previous research. For example, while some studies conducted in Europe have suggested that self-employed workers with cancer experience more adverse hea...

Chronic health conditions represent the major share of the disease burden in Europe and have a significant impact on work. This study aims to: (1) identify factors that have a negative or positive impact on the work lives of persons with chronic heal...

Doctors from the United Kingdom are increasingly involved in international medical volunteerism in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Although supported by government policy this practice lacks infrastructure and coordination. Volunteer activi...

Although the field of mathematics education has made gains in centering the need for justice-oriented approaches and antiracist teaching practices in teacher education, much of this work remains in its infancy. Moreover, research focused on this area...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the economic market and labor contexts worldwide. Brazil has suffered one of the worst social and governmental managements of the COVID-19 crisis, forcing workers and organizations to develop coping strategies. This...

There are many functional contexts where it is desirable to maintain a mesoscopic system in a nonequilibrium state. However, such control requires an inherent energy dissipation. In this article, we unify and extend a number of works on the minimum e...

There are many ways to maintain the safety of workers on a working site, such as using a human supervisor, computer supervisor, and smoke–flame detecting system. In order to create a safety warning system for the working site, the machine-learn...

In a constantly changing visual environment, the ability to extract and store ensemble representations plays a crucial role in efficiently processing and remembering complex visual information. However, how working memory maintains these ensemble rep...

This work investigates the impact of sea level rise (SLR) of up to 3 m on flood protection and freshwater availability in the Netherlands. We applied an exploratory modeling approach to consider the large degree of uncertainty associated with SLR. Th...

Relocation as a result of a job opportunity or as part of a current job has increased in recent years in the United States. The frequency with which employees are relocating makes exploring employees’ perception of the costs and benefits of tec...

Objective: To study the trajectories of work ability and investigate the impact of multisite pain and working conditions on pathways of work ability over a six-year period. Methods: The longitudinal study was conducted with Finnish food industry work...

Maintainability is a critical design characteristic of products. Maintainability evaluation plays an important role in maintainability design. Existing maintainability evaluation approaches neglect logistic effects on system maintainability. In this...

Background: This randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluates the effectiveness of a self-management toolbox designed to maintain work ability and vitality in coach drivers over their peak season. Methods: The intervention group received a self-manage...

Maintaining a high quality of work and life can be a challenge for working adults. Most working adults do not have the opportunity to participate in activities that promote physical and emotional health. Working adults need to improve their potential...

The term “working memory” (WM) describes the ability to maintain and manipulate information in the memory for the guidance of goal-directed behavior [...]

Liquid fuel has been the main source of energy in internal combustion engines (ICE) for decades. However, lithium-ion batteries (LIB) have replaced ICE for environmentally friendly vehicles and reducing fossil fuel dependence. This paper focuses on t...

Flow control valves are designed to maintain a constant flow rate regardless of pressure changes. However, standard, two-way design may cause significant energy losses due to the need to maintain high pressure in the supply line. In contrast, the pro...

The interaction between plant mitochondria and the nucleus markedly influences stress responses and morphological features, including growth and development. An important example of this interaction is cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), which results...

Social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic are at risk due to exposure to varied populations in need, which may impact their resilience, burnout, secondary trauma, and compassion satisfaction. The study assessed resilience at work, burnout, secondar...

Today, ensuring work safety is considered to be one of the top priorities for various industries. Workplace injuries, illnesses, and deaths often entail substantial production and financial losses, governmental checks, series of dismissals, and loss...

There is little qualitative research on the support needed by workers with type 1 diabetes to effectively self-manage at work and maintain work ability. In this UK study, 21 workers with type 1 diabetes participated in semi-structured interviews. The...

Nowadays, agile software development is considered a mainstream approach for software with fast release cycles and frequent changes in requirements. Most of the time, high velocity in software development implies poor software quality, especially whe...

The primary heat rejection cycle, which is critical for the stability and integrity of the metal production process and equipment, involves the transfer of heat from flue gas to a fluid circulated through a gas-cooler. The rate of heat transfer from...

With the progressive addition of microgrids at the distribution level, complex networks of interconnected microgrids and the utility grid are likely to emerge. In such a scenario, advanced microgrid controllers are required to achieve operational sta...

The home environment is a typical dynamic environment with moveable obstacles. The social robots working in home need to search for feasible paths in this complex dynamic environment. In this work, we propose an improved RRT algorithm to plan feasibl...

Background: Loss of balance is a considerable risk factor for workers while using ladders, because they are required to maintain static postural balance on platforms of a restricted size. This study observed center of mass (CoM) and center of pressur...

Disability employment programs play a key role in supporting people with disability to overcome barriers to finding and maintaining work. Despite significant investment, ongoing reforms to Australia’s Disability Employment Services (DES) are yet to l...

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly changed health service delivery and daily life. There is limited research exploring health professional experiences with these changes. This research explores mental health clinicians’ experiences over t...

Saliency, which means the area human vision is concentrated, can be used in many applications, such as enemy detection in solider goggles and person detection in an auto-driving car. In recent years, saliency is obtained instead of human eyes using a...

Ancrene Wisse describes the medieval devotional concern on work as a valid means for spiritual salvation. Depicting women’s domestic chores as imageries to be used for confession and penance, Ancrene Wisse demonstrates that the intellectual lab...

Teacher education is recognized as the process of improving teaching practices. During their postgraduate studies, aspiring teachers are encouraged to improve both their teaching practice and their working conditions. Therefore, an expectation for th...

This work is motivated by the difficulty of cultivating crops in horticulture greenhouses under hot and arid climate conditions. The main challenge is to provide a suitable greenhouse indoor environment, with sufficiently low costs and low environmen...

The guiding principle for after-school care is to avoid segregation and specialist solutions. However, a tendency to segregate children needing special support in Swedish after-school care is a reality. A significant problem that after-school care fa...

The development of electric mobility offers new perspectives in the energy sector and improves resource efficiency and sustainability. This paper proposes a new strategy for synchronizing the energy requirements of home, commercial, and vehicle mobil...

One of the most severe effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is lung disorders such as acute respiratory distress syndrome. In the absence of effective treatments, it is necessary to search for new therapies and therapeutic targets. Platelet...

Significant energy savings can be made in aerobic stirred tank batch bioreactors by the manipulation of agitator power (Pag) and air flowrate per unit working volume (vvm). Control is often implemented to maintain the oxygen concentration in the bior...

In this work modeling and analysis of an integrated opto-fluidic sensor, with a focus on achievement of single mode optical confinement and continuous flow of microparticles in the microfluidic channel for lab-on-a-chip (LOC) sensing application is p...

This paper presents the results of a comparative analysis of the dielectric strength of disconnecting vacuum interrupters operating on air and helium. The breakdown voltage U_d was measured in the pressure range from 8.0 × 10⁻⁴ Pa to 3.0 × 10¹ Pa for...

4H-SiC has been studied and applied in power semiconductor devices due to its wider band gap and higher thermal conductivity than those of Si and hence has great potential for power devices operating at high powers and high temperatures. The introduc...

An electrical islanding detection method for DC microgrid (MG) is proposed in this paper. Unlikely conventional AC MG system protection has been challenging for the DC MG system. The goal of the proposed scheme is to detect the islanding intelligentl...

This article reviews the research progress of all-polarization-maintaining mode-locked fiber lasers. Owing to their excellent resistance to environmental interference and high stability, all-polarization-maintaining mode-locked fiber lasers hold sign...

Dependency injection (DI) is generally known to improve maintainability by keeping application classes separate from the library. Particularly within the Java environment, there are many applications using the principles of DI with the aim to improve...

The utilization of photovoltaic (PV) cleaning robots has proven to be an effective method for maintaining the conversion efficiency of utility-scale PV power plants by mitigating the impact of dust accumulation. However, ensuring the safe operation o...

Suboptimal health status (SHS)—an intermediate state between health and illness—refers to functional somatic symptoms that are medically undiagnosed. Although SHS has become a great challenge for global public health, very little about its etiology a...

This work proposes a novel polarization-maintaining hollow-core anti-resonant fiber structure characterized by high birefringence and low transmission loss. To address the inherent trade-off between birefringence and confinement loss, a Pareto-front-...

The dynamic behaviour of a spring-mounted symmetrical NACA0012 wing in a freestream flow of air is studied in the pre-stall region, over 0° to 12° angles of incidence. The primary aim of this work is for use within the automotive sector to re...

A noticeable challenge for a multi-load wireless power transfer system is to achieve stable power transfer under a dynamic change in coupling conditions. It was proposed that the parity–time symmetric wireless power transfer (PT-WPT) system can achie...

Self-insert fanfiction is a long-established but still controversial mode of writing, even within the already marginalized genre of fanfiction. Moreover, many of the specific terms and practices used to describe this kind of writing have not been for...

This paper examines managerial perspectives on work environment (WE) disclosures in corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. WE encompasses all aspects of the design and management of the work system that affect the employees’ interaction...