OBJECTIVE The role of occupational hazards in occupational injury may be mediated by individual factors across various age groups. This study assessed the role of occupational hazards as well as contribution of individual factors to injuries among Indian and French coalminers. MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a case-control study on 245 injured workers and on 330 controls without any injurie...

Abstract This article examines the language shift and accompanying changing status of French German in Erlangen Huguenot community (southern Germany) during approximately 150 years following first immigrants settling 1686. Our quantitative analysis is based on a diachronically-balanced corpus 314 archival sources transmitted from this provides an overview to over time. The linguistic choices ar...

Since the advent of the process approach in writing research, composition theorists and cognitive psychologists have been trying to develop cognitive models that describe how people write. But they have run up against a major obstacle. Adults use such a wide variety of strategies that no single model can describe them all. In this paper we present a new view of adult writing strategies. We argu...

Holistic processing has been shown to be a behavioral marker of face recognition and object recognition in experts. We tested Chinese literates who can read and write Chinese characters (Writers) and Chinese literates whose reading performance far exceeded their writing ability (Limited-writers). We found that Writers perceived Chinese characters less holistically than Limited-writers. In addit...