Restaurant employees must deal with loud noise, busy environments, difficult customers, heavy, awkward, sharp, and hot objects, repetitive motions, and stress on various joints, all of which can lead to fatigue, sudden accidents, and longterm musculoskeletal injury. The goal of this case study was to assess the risk of injuries and accidents from conducting various tasks in the restaurant, spec...

Report of aCase |Theclinical, neuropsychometric, and imaging featuresof this casepreviouslywere reported in2008.2Briefly, awoman in her 60swas referred to the Behavioral Neurology Clinic formemory loss, characterizedbydifficulty rememberingnames.Longitudinal evaluations revealedprogressiveanomia with loss of word knowledge, prosopagnosia, and surface dyslexia. Her last completed neuropsychometr...

Prior studies have found equivalent or even better performance on Raven’s Progressive Matrices tasks for those with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in comparison to normal controls (e.g., Chen, Planche, & Lemonnier, 2010; Mottron, 2009). We investigated the extent to which subscales of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient would predict better performance on a verbal analogy task in a non-clinical sampl...

Museums and Galleries are the public repositories of national and regional collections of paintings, furniture, ceramics, silverware and other heritage items of great cultural significance. However in the United Kingdom there remain very extensive collections which remain largely intact located in more than a thousand historic houses which are privately owned. Many of these properties are open ...

People live in a world in which they are surrounded by potential disgust elicitors such as “used” chairs, air, silverware, and money as well as excretory activities. People function in this world by ignoring most of these, by active avoidance, reframing, or adaptation. The issue is particularly striking for professions, such as morticians, surgeons, or sanitation workers, in which there is freq...

Abstract The method of facet-cutting was invented in the 1 st century AD. glass cutters began to create zoned facet-cut decoration arrange facets horizontal zones divided by linear grooves mostly Isings 96 bowl second half 2 nd and first 3 rd A look at distribution major concentrations sites reveals that they had been manufactured four main regions: Rhine region (perhaps Cologne), Pannonia, Syr...

This paper studies an embedded monitoring system centered on ZigBee technology to realize real-time temperature and humidity monitoring, ensure low power consumption, high reliability, cost, collection of environmental information. The communication is designed using the star topology, whole network structure composed a master node three sensor receiving nodes unlimited transmission data. main ...

Background. Hand function is essential to a person's self-efficacy and greatly affects quality of life. Adapted utensils with handles of increased diameters have historically been used to assist individuals with arthritis or other hand disabilities for feeding, and other related activities of daily living. To date, minimal research has examined the biomechanical effects of modified handles, or ...

The present experiments examined the effect of work requirements in combination with reinforcement schedule on the choice behavior of adults with mental retardation and preschool children. The work requirements of age-appropriate tasks (i.e., sorting silverware, jumping hurdles, tossing beanbags) were manipulated. Participants were presented with their choice of two response options for each tr...