Since the industrial revolution the world has seen an ever increasing proliferation of production facilities and with it a steady increase in workplace accidents and fatalities. The field of safety management was borne out of the need to curtail the extremely high human and commercial costs of these incidents. Not surprisingly in the dawn of the industrial age, the initial port of call was engi...

With the continuous development of economy and science, medical instrument entered the digital and informational age. Conflicts between the urgent requirement and severe lack for ergonomics in the industrial design of medical instrument products became increasingly fierce. In the present paper, we attempted to use the research achievements in the area such as product form design theory, ergonom...

Industry, in general, has entered into a new age. This can be readily seen in the scientific and technological advancements that have brought about a number of very important changes in the basic structure of industry. For example, today, most products are manufactured using some type of automatically controlled processing equipment. This equipment is often complex, demanding a variety of skill...

The present study examines the differences between levels of selected structural and functional features of boys 11-13 years in age from regions with varying levels of air pollution, including an industrial and rural region. The sample consisted of 213 boys from the industrial region and 98 from the rural region. Somatic, respiratory parameters and motor abilities were evaluated in both groups....

GEORGE MORA (ed.), Witches, devils, and doctors in the Renaissance: Johann Weyer, 'De praestigiis daemonum', assoc. ed. Benjamin Kohl, transl. John Shea, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 73, Binghamton, State University of New York Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1991, pp. xcii, 790, illus., $33.00 (0-86698-083-0). Widely acknowledged today as one of the key texts o...

Leadership models of the last century have been products of top-down, bureaucratic paradigms. These models are eminently effective for an economy premised on physical production but are not well-suited for a more knowledgeoriented economy. Complexity science suggests a different paradigm for leadership—one that frames leadership as a complex interactive dynamic from which adaptive outcomes (e.g...

Digitalization offers chances as well as risks for industrial companies. This article describes how the area of Mixed Reality, with its manifestations Augmented and Virtual Reality, can support industrial applications in the age of digitalization. Starting from a historical perspective on Augmented and Virtual Reality, this article surveys recent developments in the domain of Mixed Reality, rel...

Nearly a century and a half before passage of the Social Security Act, Thomas Paine advocated a partial pension. All persons were to receive six pounds annually starting at age 50 ; a full pension of 10 pounds was to be paid annually from the onset of old age, considered by Paine to be 60 years . Paine was not only prophetic in recognizing the economic problem posed by old age in industrial soc...

.T HE Social Security Act in 1935 established a dual program of protection against old-age dependency-old-age benefits, a contributory social insurance system covering primarily industrial and commercial workers; and old-age assistance, a program administered by the States (but partly financed by the Federal Government) to give financial assistance to aged persons who were in need. Under both p...