This technical note details the preliminary stage in the development of a postural analysis tool, Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA). REBA has been developed to fill a perceived need for a practitioner's field tool, specifically designed to be sensitive to the type of unpredictable working postures found in health care and other service industries. A team of ergonomists, physiotherapists, occu...

It's intended to make a comparison between hospital nurses and homecare nurses, regarding the risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). A study with homecare nurses carried out by the authors constitutes the basis for the comparison. In it was developed a questionnaire for the analysis of musculoskeletal complaints (MSCs). Was also applied the REBA technique (Rapid Entire Body Assessment) to ev...

BACKGROUND Assessing the physical demands of the heterogeneous jobs in hospitals requires appropriate and validated assessment methodologies. METHODS As part of an integrated assessment, we adapted Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA), using it in a work sampling mode facilitated by a hand-held personal digital assistant, expanding it with selected items from the UC Computer Use Checklist, and...

This paper proposes a method of the zero pronoun resohition, which is one of the essential processes in understanding systems for Japanese manual sentences. It is based on pragmatic properties of Japanese conditionals. We examined a uumber of sentences appearing in Japanese manuals according to the classillcation based on the types of agent and the types of verb phrase. As ~ result, we obtained...

BACKGROUND Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), including resistance to both rifampicin (RIF) and isoniazid (INH) referred to as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), has become an increasing global threat in recent years. Effective management of patients infected with MDR-TB strains requires identifying such patients by performing conventional drug-susceptibility testing (DST) on bacteria is...

Michele L. Reba,* Danny Marks, Timothy E. Link, John Pomeroy and Adam Winstral 1 Agricultural Research Service, National Sedimentation Laboratory, Jonesboro, AR, USA 2 Agricultural Research Service, Northwest Watershed Research Centre, Boise, ID, USA 3 University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, ID, USA 4 Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, ...

Iron is unique among inorganic nutriments because primary control of body homeostasis resides with absorption, not with excretion (1). However, the pathway by which iron is transported in the gut is not necessarily unique; it may be shared with cations whose absorption waxes and wanes in parallel with that of iron, but whose total body balance is maintained by ready excretion. The question of w...