“Future skills” increase employees’ prospects in the labor market, particularly dynamic times, such as current COVID-19 pandemic. (Not only) Germany, flight attendants represent an occupational group without state-recognized vocational occupation who are affected by pandemic due to serious and long-lasting declines air transport volumes. Therefore, it is reasonable assume that future skills of ...

Microbiological studies were carried out in a small poultry farm in a Community in South West Nigeria following a report of acute diarrhea in 6-week old broilers, catarrh and cough in the poultry attendants. Nasal swabs were collected from 25 symptomatic and 5 asymptomatic attendants. Swabs were collected from the cloacae of 100 birds with diarrhea. Twenty-five (100%) symptomatic attendants car...

J Travel Med 2004; 11:243–250. Almost two billion passengers undertake international and domestic air travel each year.1,2 As the population ages and our ability to care for patients with cardiac disease improves, an increasing number of people with cardiovascular disease will be traveling long distances.Many such travelers have had pacemakers or automatic defibrillators implanted,have had rece...

Executive Summary After mathematically analyzing the aircraft boarding problem, our modeling group would like to present our conclusions, strategies, and recommendations to the airline industry. We examined the mathematical effects of waiting in line to board, sending in different groupings of seat assignments, and the interaction between various components of the boarding process to determine ...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this analysis was to evaluate the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) in air transit, and to understand potential problems created by this practice for flight crew and patrons. Safety concerns around the long-term effects of ecigarette use and passive inhalation in enclosed spaces are being studied, yet ecigarettes are increasingly being used in smoke-free pl...

BACKGROUND The high rate of home deliveries conducted by unskilled birth attendants in resource-limited settings is an important global health issue because it is believed to be a significant contributing factor to maternal and newborn mortality. Given the large number of deliveries that are managed by unskilled or traditional birth attendants outside of health facilities, and the fact that the...