In August 1996, Congress and the president replaced the 60-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with a block grant, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), permitting states to experiment with new forms of assistance to low-income families. States seem likely to try increasingly ambitious reforms as they gain experience under their TANF flexibility, at least if...

background & aim : low back pain (lbp) has developed as a major public health problem in the western industrialized societies, and the socio-economic burden of this problem has a huge dimension. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of body mechanics behavior on lbp of workers.| methods & materials : descriptive study includes convenience sample of 290 workers who work at car prod...

This article discusses the overlooked role of recreation programmes in ethnocultural and cultural-specific long-term care home from my standpoint as a worker. First, policy during pandemic that prohibited visits by family members volunteers revealed they are important informal caregivers to fill for limitations workers. Second, recreational can also be considered practice cultural inheritance: ...

Reflective supervision is widely recommended as an effective way to support social workers think about their practice and make better decisions. Although previous research has proposed methods of pursuing reflective supervision, little known how supervisors attempt this in actual meetings. One method for elicit third person perspectives so that can consider a situation from different points vie...

Child of agriculture families are likely to be exposed to agricultural chemicals, even if they are not involved in farm activities. This study was designed to determine whether such children are exposed to higher levels of pesticides than children whose parents are not involved in agriculture and whose homes are not close to farms. Household dust and soil samples were collected in children's pl...

In this study, an attempt has been made to apply Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) approach, one of the network types of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), into worker assignment problems for VCMS environment and analyze the network performance and effectiveness under different cell configurations and time periods. Worker assignment problems assume a crucial role in any type of manufacturing sy...

background: accidents, such as domestic accidents, and the resulting injuries are presently a matter of concern in communities. some factors such as urbanization cause an increase in the incidence of accidents for recognized and unrecognized reasons. the aim of the present study was to investigate the incidence of domestic accidents among a group of families who had migrated to the determined u...