introduction: physiological, anthropometrical and thermal perceptual are the most important factors affecting thermoregulation of men and women in workplaces. the purpose of this study was determining the validity of a questionnaire method for assessing women’s heat strain in workplaces. methods: this cross‑sectional study was carried out on 96 healthy women. data were continuously collected ov...

The severity of workplace injuries varies by industry. Information on workplace injuries can enable firms and governments to effectively improve their safety performance based on the specific contexts of each industry. Incorporating the three workplace injury rates (being wounded or ill, disability, and death), a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is developed to evaluate the safety performa...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical utility of the narrative scoring scheme (NSS) as an index of narrative macrostructure for young school-age children. METHOD Oral retells of a wordless picture book were elicited from 129 typically developing children, ages 5-7. A series of correlations and hierarchical regression equations were completed using microstructural measures of vocabulary and grammar...

Abstract: Interface between matrix/coating or coating/coating in fact represents a very complicate 6 thin interfacial layer. So interface model is necessary to avoid the difficulty on considering such a 7 complicate thin layer in analysis. Classic interface model and cohesive model have been widely used 8 in stress analysis of coating materials, though they cannot represent the effect of very t...

Using an effective potential approach, we compute two-loop radiative corrections to the MSSM lightest CP-even Higgs boson mass Mh0 to O(α2 t ) for arbitrary left-right top-squark mixing and tanβ. We find that these corrections can increase Mh0 by as much as 5 GeV; assuming a SUSY scale of 1 TeV, the upper bound on the Higgs boson mass is Mh0 ≈ 129 ± 5 GeV for the top quark pole mass 175 ± 5 GeV...

Genetic effects on behavioural measures thought to model anxiety have been reported on 15 mouse chromosomes. In general the individual effect from each locus is small, contributing to 10% or less of the total variation, but through use of crosses between inbred rodents the power to detect such effects is high: 39 loci have been reported at stringent levels of significance. Novel multivariate an...

Severe soil liquefaction due to a long duration earthquake with low acceleration occurred at Tokyo Bay area in the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake. This phenomenon clearly shows that soil liquefaction is affected by properties of input waves. This paper describes effect of wave properties of earthquake on liquefaction using effective stress analysis with some earthquakes. Analyt...

A new method is used to quantify the relationships between stress field and primary fracture characters (aperture, density) in low-permeability sandstone reservoirs based on laboratory experiments and mathematical development, through which, quantitative fracture modeling is set up. Using this modeling, we can load it into the stress analysis software (Ansys 10.0) to acquire 3D palaeo stress fi...