Jana Cason, DHS, OTR/L, is Associate Professor, Auerbach School of Occupational Therapy, Spalding University, 845 South Third Street, Louisville, KY 40203; [email protected] Occupational therapy practitioners and their clients are poised to benefit from the use of emerging technologies to deliver health and wellness, habilitation, and rehabilitation services across multiple practice settings....

BACKGROUND Asthma is among the most common chronic diseases in working-aged populations and occupational exposures are important causal agents. Our aims were to evaluate the best methods to assess occurrence, public health impact, and burden to society related to occupational or work-related asthma and to achieve comparable estimates for different populations. METHODS We addressed three centr...

Occupational exposure to high-molecular-weight allergens is a risk factor for the development and pathogenesis of IgE-mediated respiratory disease. In some occupational environments, workers are at an increased risk of exposure to fungal enzymes used in industrial production. Fungal enzymes have been associated with adverse health effects in the work place, in particular in baking occupations. ...

This paper presents the concept of a merged view, task-based visualization technique, and it discusses the benefits and limits of merged view. The time and cost of understanding and analyzing the software are main factors of software development cost. Therefore, large and complex modern software systems need automated tools to aid programmers to understand the software system. This paper invest...