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  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,018 Views
43 Pages

15 December 2023

Background: Being occupied is an important factor in human well-being and ranges from paid and unpaid work to activities of daily living. Various occupational concepts that do not contain health in the phrase such as “occupational justice&rdquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,572 Views
10 Pages

This study aimed to verify the structural relationship between physical self-concept, occupational instability, and retirement intention among South Korean minor league baseball players. Snowball sampling was used to recruit 180 minor league players...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,957 Views
23 Pages

The Acceptability of Occupational Therapy Using Zones of Regulation™ Concepts in an Equine Environment to Autistic Children

  • Jacqueline M. Browne,
  • Sarah Jean Reega,
  • Ellen M. Rankins,
  • Arlene A. Schmid and
  • B. Caitlin Peters

8 April 2025

Autistic children often have impaired self-regulation which can impact daily functioning and life outcomes. Occupational Therapy Using Zones of Regulation™ Concepts in an Equine Environment (OT-ZOR-Equine) is a standardized intervention that in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,150 Views
13 Pages

The Conceptual Analysis of Collaboration in the Occupational Therapy by Combining the Scoping Review Methodology

  • Tatsunori Sawada,
  • Kyongmi Oh,
  • Mutsumi Namiki,
  • Kounosuke Tomori,
  • Kanta Ohno and
  • Yuho Okita

Background: Collaboration is an important concept in goal-setting in occupational therapy. However, this concept is not stable due to various definitions. The purpose of this study was to clarify the concept of collaboration in occupational therapy....

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
22,120 Views
27 Pages

Twenty years ago, the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched a new strategy, the Decent Work Agenda, to ensure human-oriented development in the globalization of working life and to provide an effective response to the challenges of globali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,764 Views
20 Pages

21 April 2023

Balanced identity theory (BIT) has played an important role in research examining women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Yet, BIT’s main balanced-congruity principle has not been tested sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,393 Views
19 Pages

3 June 2021

At present, in Russia, as in many countries, the issues of reducing industrial injuries, as well as increasing the effectiveness of measures taken by employers in the field of industrial safety and introducing a culture of safe work, are widely discu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
16,831 Views
33 Pages

3 October 2019

With the introduction of Industry 4.0, occupational health and safety finds itself confronted with new types of hazards. Many Industry 4.0 innovations involve increased machine intelligence. These properties make socio-technical work in Industry 4.0...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,468 Views
28 Pages

Sensing Occupancy through Software: Smart Parking Proof of Concept

  • Lea Dujić Rodić,
  • Toni Perković,
  • Tomislav Županović and
  • Petar Šolić

21 December 2020

In order to detect the vehicle presence in parking slots, different approaches have been utilized, which range from image recognition to sensing via detection nodes. The last one is usually based on getting the presence data from one or more sensors...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
10,941 Views
31 Pages

30 May 2022

Surface electromyography (sEMG) has been the subject of thousands of scientific articles, but many barriers limit its clinical applications. Previous work has indicated that the lack of time, competence, training, and teaching is the main barrier to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,013 Views
18 Pages

Physical Activity and Psychonutritional Correlates of Eating Disorder Risk in Female Health Science Students

  • Patricia Ruiz-Bravo,
  • Germán Díaz Ureña,
  • Bárbara Rodríguez-Rodríguez,
  • Nuria Mendoza Laiz and
  • Sonia García-Merino

Objective: This study sought to examine the correlation between physical activity levels and various psychological and nutritional factors associated with the risk of developing eating disorders among female university students in the Health Sciences...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,929 Views
5 Pages

Buildings’ contribution to global final energy use is about 30%, which makes them a primary focus for implementing energy-efficient measures. Building energy efficiency is an important consideration for residential buildings due to the signific...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,797 Views
10 Pages

7 August 2023

Sexuality and occupation are two constructs studied in different fields of knowledge. Particularly, in occupational therapy and occupational science, their relationship has been sparsely explored from a philosophical perspective. In the following ref...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,948 Views
11 Pages

Musculoskeletal Disorders’ Classification Proposal for Application in Occupational Medicine

  • Pablo Monteiro Pereira,
  • João Amaro,
  • Bruno Tillmann Ribeiro,
  • Ana Gomes,
  • Paulo De Oliveira,
  • Joana Duarte,
  • João Ferraz,
  • João Santos Baptista and
  • José Torres Costa

Occupational-specific classifications of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are scarce and do not answer specific clinical questions. Thus, a specific classification was developed and proposed, covering criteria applicable to daily clinical activity. It...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,562 Views
19 Pages

Structural Analysis of a Composite Passenger Seat for the Case of an Aircraft Emergency Landing

  • Georgios Tzanakis,
  • Athanasios Kotzakolios,
  • Efthimis Giannaros and
  • Vassilis Kostopoulos

28 December 2022

Aviation authorities require, from aircraft seat manufacturers, specific performance metrics that maximize the occupants’ chances of survival in the case of an emergency landing and allow for the safe evacuation of the aircraft cabin. Therefore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,143 Views
16 Pages

18 December 2022

A large number of workers are entering the rapidly growing solar photovoltaic industry. The emerging occupational safety and health risks faced by the workers have rarely been measured and aptly addressed. Moreover, there is a lack of cross-cultural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,020 Views
16 Pages

14 August 2022

Accurate and convenient assessment of a section’s capacity is an essential problem in the operation of high-speed railway companies. The concept of occupancy time is widely used in the field, but there is still a lack of quantitative analysis t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,376 Views
42 Pages

19 January 2024

Coastal spaces are shaped by human activity. Approaching their urban spaces allows us to analyse the concepts of structure, growth, and management. Highlighting the problems associated with these concepts can lead to intensive scientific analysis and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,170 Views
10 Pages

27 July 2021

Tactical professionals often depend on their physical ability and fitness to perform and complete occupational tasks to successfully provide public services or survive on the battlefield. Critical speed (CS), or maximal aerobic steady-state, is a pur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,109 Views
21 Pages

16 May 2016

The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. The demand for occupational therapists in Canada is expected to grow sharply at an annual growth rate of 3.2%, compared to 0.7% for all oc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,089 Views
30 Pages

25 February 2022

There are two primary ways to save energy within a building: (1) through improving building engineering structures and adopting efficient appliance ownership, and (2) through changing occupants’ energy-consuming behaviors. Unfortunately the sec...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,236 Views
15 Pages

Occupational Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields—Different from General Public Exposure and Laboratory Studies

  • Kjell Hansson Mild,
  • Mats-Olof Mattsson,
  • Peter Jeschke,
  • Michel Israel,
  • Mihaela Ivanova and
  • Tsvetelina Shalamanova

The designs of in vivo, in vitro and in silico studies do not adequately reflect the characteristics of long-term occupational EMF exposure; the higher exposure levels permitted for employees are nevertheless extrapolated on this basis. Epidemiologic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,463 Views
14 Pages

2 September 2016

A qualitative study was undertaken with five people on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) to better understand their experiences and daily routines. Through an in-depth exploration of their everyday occupations, we sought to reveal the ongoing cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
13,548 Views
18 Pages

3 September 2019

This paper is aimed at investigating the applicability of the notion of Sequent Occupance to the Singapore context. Sequent Occupance as a phenomenon in Human Geography was first theorized by Derwent Whittlesey in 1929 in order to describe the curren...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,467 Views
21 Pages

21 December 2023

Occupational health and safety (OHS) is a largely technical field, still guided by a biomedical model of health that seeks to isolate factors that cause injury. Despite a growing literature on organisational and managerial factors influencing occupat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,277 Views
13 Pages

13 February 2025

In this study, two teaching teams’ implementations of a conceptual model to support inclusive education were investigated. Focus group discussions with the teaching teams were conducted and the theory of organizational and occupational professi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,691 Views
15 Pages

Objectives: Despite an abundance of research acknowledging the value of interactive occupation and social engagement for older people, and the limits to these imposed by many residential settings, there is a lack of research which measures and analyz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,200 Views
31 Pages

9 April 2024

Numerous researchers acknowledge that the occupational pension protects employees. However, in China, the total cost of occupational pensions is shared between employees and employers, representing a significant financial commitment. This study aimed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,558 Views
17 Pages

27 September 2022

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between occupants’ emotional attitude, decision behavior, and environmental cognition toward window seats and learning efficiency and the mechanism of this relationship in public spaces (re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,868 Views
12 Pages

12 January 2023

The topic of occupational health and safety (OHS) has been investigated for many years and continues to be a concept often researched today. Generally speaking, OHS research has been centered around food safety, construction safety, transportation sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,457 Views
13 Pages

Evaluation of the Effective Cognition Area (ECA) of Signage Systems with Backlighting under Smoke Conditions

  • Young-Chan Kim,
  • Sang-Hyun Baek,
  • Young-Hoon Bae,
  • Ryun-Seok Oh and
  • Jun-Ho Choi

29 March 2022

Signage systems are visual information systems that indicate the direction, allow for identification, and show safety information and regulations to occupants via graphics or text during emergencies. Wayfinding is difficult in large and complex build...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,059 Views
9 Pages

Knowledge and Opinions of Healthcare Professionals about Thirdhand Smoke: A Multi-National, Cross-Sectional Study

  • Blanca Quispe-Cristóbal,
  • Cristina Lidón-Moyano,
  • Juan Carlos Martín-Sánchez,
  • Hipólito Pérez-Martín,
  • Àurea Cartanyà-Hueso,
  • Íñigo Cabriada-Sáez,
  • Sonia de Paz-Cantos,
  • Jose M. Martínez-Sánchez and
  • Adrián González-Marrón

There is scarce evidence on the knowledge and opinions about third-hand smoke (THS) of health care professionals. The main aim of this study was to explore the knowledge and opinions of health care professionals about THS and, secondarily, to explore...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,272 Views
14 Pages

6 June 2024

In fair-skinned populations worldwide, skin cancer is a serious public health threat. A significant percentage of all reported occupational diseases fall back on skin cancer. Over the past few decades, there has been a rise in the frequency of skin c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,054 Views
18 Pages

Styles of Coping with Stress as a Factor Influencing Professional Burnout among Professional Officers of the Polish Army in the Context of Their Age

  • Grażyna Bartkowiak,
  • Agnieszka Krugiełka,
  • Paulina Kostrzewa-Demczuk,
  • Ryszard Dachowski and
  • Katarzyna Gałek

2 April 2021

The subject of this article is the issue of coping with stress in the context of the level of professional burnout among professional soldiers at the officer rank and the identification of the relationship between occupational burnout and the prefere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,476 Views
15 Pages

Comfort as a Service: A New Paradigm for Residential Environmental Quality Control

  • Juan Gómez-Romero,
  • Miguel Molina-Solana,
  • María Ros,
  • M. Dolores Ruiz and
  • M. J. Martin-Bautista

28 August 2018

This paper introduces the concept of Comfort as a Service (CaaS), a new energy supply paradigm for providing comfort to residential customers. CaaS takes into account the available passive and active elements, the external factors that affect energy...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,940 Views
17 Pages

Development of a Passenger Assistance System to Increase the Attractiveness of Local Public Transport

  • Anja K. Faulhaber,
  • Jens Hegenberg,
  • Sophie Elise Kahnt,
  • Franz Lambrecht,
  • Daniel Leonhäuser,
  • Stefan Saake,
  • Franka Wehr,
  • Ludger Schmidt and
  • Carsten Sommer

31 March 2022

In this paper, we present a concept for an assistance system for public transport passengers currently being developed for Kassel, Germany, and its surrounding area. The assistance system aims at increasing the attractiveness of local public transpor...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,054 Views
15 Pages

Damage to the articular cartilage resulting in an acute tear can lead to functional changes within the joint and increase the risk of osteoarthritis developing. There is limited understanding of the association between occupational risk factors and s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,893 Views
26 Pages

The impact of global climate change on the built environment emphasizes the need for sustainable development goals (SDGs) using technological solutions, such as the Internet of Things (IoT). The significance of innovative building assessment (BA) too...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,407 Views
20 Pages

This paper aims to examine the influence of body shape on income, which varies with gender and occupational structure in China. The data were obtained from the CGSS (Chinese General Social Survey) 2010–2017 Survey. The overall finding in this paper i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,936 Views
21 Pages

8 April 2020

To attain peace after state-on-state war, there must be a belligerent occupation to establish control and security of a defeated state—but that is not enough. There is the concept of jus post bellum concerning the vanquished, which is criticall...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,838 Views
22 Pages

Causes of Childhood Cancer: A Literature Review (2014–2021)—Part 3: Environmental and Occupational Factors

  • Rebecca T. Emeny,
  • Mary E. Butow,
  • Linda Titus,
  • Angela M. Ricci,
  • Pamela J. Bagley,
  • Heather B. Blunt,
  • Alexandra Morgan,
  • Jennifer A. Alford-Teaster,
  • Raymond R. Walston and
  • Judy R. Rees

31 October 2025

Purpose: To achieve a better understanding of the environmental factors that contribute to childhood cancers, so as to inform future prevention efforts. Methods: We conducted a comprehensive review of epidemiological studies on environmental risk fac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,255 Views
11 Pages

29 December 2023

Occupational therapy has been integral to the holistic recovery of soldiers since its origin. The positive psychosocial and physiological effects of occupation-based interventions, fundamental to the profession, have long justified its relevance to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,366 Views
19 Pages

3 November 2023

It is important for older and disabled people who live alone to be able to cope with the daily challenges of living at home. In order to support independent living, the Smart Home Care (SHC) concept offers the possibility of providing comfortable con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,426 Views
16 Pages

Employment quality (EQ) has gained increasing attention as a determinant of health, but the debate among occupational health researchers over the measurement of EQ poses a challenge to advancing the literature. This is especially problematic when the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,465 Views
36 Pages

A Meta-Synthesis Review of Occupant Comfort Assessment in Buildings (2002–2022)

  • Amir Faraji,
  • Maria Rashidi,
  • Fatemeh Rezaei and
  • Payam Rahnamayiezekavat

28 February 2023

Occupant comfort in buildings is one of the most crucial considerations in designing a building. Accordingly, there is a growing interest in this area. Aspects of comfort include thermal comfort, visual comfort, acoustic comfort, and indoor air quali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,492 Views
17 Pages

Precision Ventilation in an Open-Plan Office: A New Application of Active Chilled Beam (ACB) with a JetCone Feature

  • Haider Latif,
  • Samira Rahnama,
  • Alessandro Maccarini,
  • Goran Hultmark,
  • Peter V. Nielsen and
  • Alireza Afshari

2 April 2022

Mixing ventilation systems effectively improves thermal comfort in open-spaces due to adequate turbulent mixing of the cold stream with ambient air. This study introduces the concept of precision ventilation for achieving local thermal comfort in a m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
575 Views
22 Pages

Fan Coil Unit Influence on Thermal Comfort in Waiting Areas of Energy-Efficient Office Buildings

  • Małgorzata Fedorczak-Cisak,
  • Alicja Kowalska-Koczwara,
  • Aleksandra Buda-Chowaniec,
  • Mirosław Dechnik,
  • Michał Ciuła and
  • Anna Shymanska

26 November 2025

Ensuring thermal comfort in waiting areas is essential for visitor satisfaction and well-being. In the context of nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs), these spaces—typically characterized by short-term occupancy, transient user behavior, and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,037 Views
13 Pages

27 November 2024

In this article, the occupation of the imam is analysed using a profession-theoretical approach. Following Oevermann, we view professionalised action as a relational practice, characterised by a paradoxical unity of diffuseness and specificity. Drawi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,699 Views
32 Pages

Musculoskeletal disorders and the stagnation of sitting are among the side effects of excessive sitting in awkward sitting positions. In this study, a developed chair attachment cushion design with an optimal air blowing technique is proposed to elim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,870 Views
10 Pages

Patients with muscular dystrophy (MD) need fitted wheelchairs. This study aimed to ascertain physiotherapists and occupational therapists’ opinions about the current wheelchair seating process for patients with MD in Japan. We identified 266 academic...

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