Workplace environments are characterised by fluid collection definition, diversity in document types, and the need to search information from diverse repositories and file systems. Workplace retrieval systems cover a large variety of document formats, document genres, and languages, such as English and Danish and professional jargons (Abrol et al., 2001). Most workplace search technologies offe...

background and objectives: violence toward healthcare workers has emerged as an important health problem. this type of violence has the potential to severely influence healthcare workers, patients, and the community. this study aimed to explore the prevalence of violence in emergency departments, and to identify associated risk fac­tors using a sample of emergency department healthcare workers ...

Work on ethnic and nationalist violence has emerged from two largely nonintersecting literatures: studies of ethnic conflict and studies of political violence. Only recently have the former begun to attend to the dynamics of violence and the latter to the dynamics of ethnicization. Since the emergent literature on ethnic violence is not structured by clearly defined theoretical oppositions, we ...

Healthcare workers are exposed to workplace violence such as physical assaults, psychological and threats of violence. It is crucial understand factors associated with prevent mitigate its consequences. This study aims identify work-related that might influence in healthcare settings. A cross-sectional was developed between March April 2022 workers. The Aggression Violence at Work Scale used as...

Violence in the work place is a new but growing problem for our profession. It is likely that at some point a psychiatrist will be confronted with a potentially violent patient or need to assess a violent patient. Understanding predictors and associated factors in violence as well as having a clear and well-defined strategy in approaching and dealing with the violent patient, thus, are crucial....

BACKGROUND Much research has looked at the extent of violence against doctors, but this has been restricted mainly to psychiatry, general practice, and accident and emergency. AIMS To assess the level of violence against trainee paediatricians. METHODS A telephone questionnaire was addressed to 25 specialist registrars/senior registrars/senior SHOs in each of three regions in the UK: Northe...

Workplace violence is currently a worrying factor at many hospitals. The objectives of this study were to characterize the occupational violence problems detected by health workers in an emergency hospital. The study was exploratory and transversal, with a quantitative data approach. It took place at the emergency ward of a general hospital in Londrina, Paraná. The study population included 33 ...

Domestic violence occurs across all ethnic and racial groups, profoundly affecting women, who are most frequently the victims. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2050, 50% of the population will be minorities. To contribute to the growing literature on race and domestic violence, this article uses data derived from domestic violence programs in a large Midwestern state between 1990 and 199...

the article discusses a trial undertaken in a lis education program to help prepare students from different cultural backgrounds to work in virtual, multicultural work places.  the focus of the trial was developing teamwork, which may now involve global, multicultural and virtual components, for which students need to be prepared, given work place changes of recent years. the trial took place i...