FRIENDS AT WORK

Fixed-term work and violence at work.

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the effect of a fixed-term job contract on encounters of violence at work. We assumed that fixed-term employees encountered more violence or threats of violence at their work than permanent employees. METHODS This study is based on 3 large statistical data sets: (a) the Work and Health surveys carried out by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in 19...

Coparticipation at work: Knowing and work practicer

Lingeling and Friends at the SAT Competition 2011

This note serves as system description for our solvers submitted to the various tracks of the SAT Competition 2011 affiliated to the SAT conference 2011.

Innate Immunity and Biomaterials at the Nexus: Friends or Foes

Biomaterial implants are an established part of medical practice, encompassing a broad range of devices that widely differ in function and structural composition. However, one common property amongst biomaterials is the induction of the foreign body response: an acute sterile inflammatory reaction which overlaps with tissue vascularisation and remodelling and ultimately fibrotic encapsulation o...

Multimedia at Work

Recent advances in 3D depth cameras such as Microsoft Kinect sensors (www.xbox. com/en-US/kinect) have created many opportunities for multimedia computing. Kinect was built to revolutionize the way people play games and how they experience entertainment. With Kinect, people are able to interact with the games with their body in a natural way. The key enabling technology is human bodylanguage un...