OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of dynamic muscle training and relaxation training for chronic neck pain. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Five occupational healthcare centres, Tampere, Finland. PARTICIPANTS 393 female office workers (mean age 45 years) with chronic non-specific neck pain randomly assigned to 12 weeks of dynamic muscle training (n = 135) or relaxation ...

The paper analyzes the latitudinal distribution of high-temperature plasma (T>4 MK) and microflares on solar disk during low activity in 2009. A0.1–A1.0 contains belts typical ordinary flares B class higher. In total, we have registered 526 flares, most which, about 96 %, occurred at high latitudes. About 4 % were found near equator. We believe that they formed by residual magnetic field pre...

a simple but novel and applicable approach is proposed to solve the problem of smoothing effect of ordinary kriging estimate which is widely used in mining and earth sciences. it is based on transformation equation in which z scores are derived from ordinary kriging estimates and then rescaled by the standard deviation of sample data and the sample mean is added to the result. it bears the grea...

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A simple but novel and applicable approach is proposed to solve the problem of smoothing effect of ordinary kriging estimate which is widely used in mining and earth sciences. It is based on transformation equation in which Z scores are derived from ordinary kriging estimates and then rescaled by the standard deviation of sample data and the sample mean is added to the result. It bears the grea...

This study characterized the exposure of crude oil process operators to benzene and related aromatics during ordinary activity and investigated whether the operators take up benzene at this level of exposure. We performed the study on a fixed, integrated oil and gas production facility on Norway's continental shelf. The study population included 12 operators and 9 referents. We measured persona...