In the digitally connected world of today a whole new set of relations between people has been defined which has not left the business environment untouched. Among the outcomes of this trend with unknown positive potentials and, certainly, weaknesses worthy of deeper studies is the newlydiscussed topic of e-workers. Though, there have been certain issues discussed by researchers in this field; ...

HIV testing is an essential component of PMTCT. It can be offered to pregnant women through different testing models, ranging from voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) to routine and mandatory testing. This study was conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam, where HIV-prevalence is low among the general population, but high among young, urban, sexually active, male intravenous drug users. Women who want t...

We constructed job-exposure profiles and assessed quality of health care in 39 of 47 current and former workers from a nuclear installation in the Negev whose files were referred to us for assessment of a possible work-related aspect of their tumors. The workers, all male except one, began employment at various times from the reactor construction and were engaged in different tasks in laborator...

The research objectives were to find out the extent of presenteeism and absenteeism in manual workers and whether it differs in clerks that perform sedentary jobs. For that purpose 121 manual workers of "3.maj" were polled, of whom 61 are employed by the shipyard in state ownership and 60 are sub-contracted workers. Also 120 clerks were interviewed, 60 postal employees of "Telecom" Zadar and 60...

OBJECTIVE To describe the occupational exposure to acute poisoning by pesticides, especially organophosphates, and its incidence. METHODS A descriptive study was carried out on 290 family fruit farmers in the municipality of Bento Gonçalves, Southern Brazil, conducted in two stages in 2006. Two hundred and forty-one of these workers completed the two stages, which corresponded to periods of l...

SUMMARY G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol?>Official statistics on economic inequality are only available at low frequency with considerable delay. This makes it challenging to assess the impact of fast-unfolding crises like COVID-19 pandemic, rapidly evaluate tailor policy responses. We propose a new methodology track income high using anonymized data from bank records for over three m...

This memo contains a snapshot of the state of standardization of protocols used in the Internet as of October 24, 2002. It lists official protocol standards and Best Current Practice RFCs; it is not a complete index to the RFC series. The latest version of this memo is designated STD 1.

Determined attempts to quantify social phenomena have allowed bureaucratic organisations to collect numerical data from increasingly diverse sources, in seemingly ever increasing volume. For many, there is a certain amount of comfort to be had from columns of figures, bar charts and percentages and we take for granted that statistical data will be derived from sources such as census forms, tax ...