background and aims. tooth loss may lead to mastication disability, which in turn has important impact on individual’s quality of life. social and psychological factors have been shown to be associated with tooth loss. this study aimed to investigate the social determinants and prevalence of tooth loss, and presence of functional dentition among female heads of household under support of welfar...

Telework is presented as a model of work organisation that changes the paradigms business culture in many organisations, reshaping established management and social systems. The COVID-19 pandemic restrictions applied to mobility concentration people have accelerated implementation telework, generating an change organisational models. dynamics significantly transform aspects business, personal e...

Increasing reliance on family care of elderly people at home calls for a critical analysis of the relationship between formal and informal caregivers. Although much has been written about how health professionals and family caregivers should relate to one another, we know very little about the relationships that develop between them. Using data from a qualitative study, this article illustrates...

For TREC Crowdsourcing 2011 (Stage 2) we propose a networkbased approach for assigning an indicative measure of worker trustworthiness in crowdsourced labelling tasks. Workers, the gold standard and worker/gold standard agreements are modelled as a network. For the purpose of worker trustworthiness assignment, a variant of the PageRank algorithm, named TurkRank, is used to adaptively combine ev...

Analyses regularly feature claims that European welfare states are in the process of creating an adult worker model. The theoretical and empirical basis of this argument is examined here by looking first at the conceptual foundations of the adult worker model formulation and then at the extent to which social policy reform in western Europe fits with the argument. It is suggested that the adult...

abstract background: workplace exposures as in clinical work can cause disorders. some organ systems are at risk. this work may be a risk factor for early symptoms of menopause. the objective of this study was to compare the early symptoms of menopause between hospital personnel who work in clinical and office settings. materials and methods: this was a historical cohort study conducted on clin...