Rationalization, working conditions and living standards in postwar Japanese coalmining communities

ISO 532 – Living and working with alternative loudness standards

By its very nature, standardization claims to set unique rules and procedures, thus aiming unique, i.e. comparable and reproducible results. Also, to be effective, the standard and the underlying approach need to be broadly accepted by the addressed user community. To come up with such general agreement it is typically required that a “best” approach, covering all relevant applications of inter...

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

Relationships between environmental variables and free-living nematode communities in seasonally flooded wetlands

The Lo Go-Xa Mat is a national park in the southeastern region of Vietnam, which has a particularly high biodiversity and it includes different wetlands which are unique diverse in species composition. It can be categorized into two types: temporarily-seasonally and permanently flooded wetlands. Ta Not grassy marsh is representative of the seasonally flooded wetland. Whilst the diversity and ec...

Living Standards in Central Asia

Paper prepared for a Special Issue of MOCT-MOST Economic Policy in Transitional Economies on Living Standards and Welfare in Central Asia.

Comparison of menopause healthcare considerations between Japanese and Filipino women living in local communities.

To investigate the involvement of psychological/social factors in the condition of climacteric disturbance in Japan and the Philippines, we examined the menopausal symptoms and psychological/social factors in menopausal women living in local communities and compared among both countries whether differences in culture, lifestyle, etc. affected the condition of climacteric disturbance. High perce...