Many epidemiological studies of the relation between work and disease use information on work history obtained by interview from the study subjects. A validation study was undertaken to evaluate the accuracy of this information collected from 100 workers in a shipbuilding industry. The information furnished by the workers was compared with that present in the company's registers. The work histo...

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A workkow history manager maintains the information essential for workkow monitoring and data mining as well as for recovery and authorization purposes. Certain characteristics of workkow systems like the necessity to run these systems on heterogeneous, autonomous and distributed environments and the nature of data, prevent history management in workkows to be handled by the classical data mana...

the aim of the present study was to examine the rate of noise induced hearing loss in a group of punching and cutting section and other occupational groups workers and its relation with sound pressure levels, age and work history. this descriptive, cross-sectional study included 245 workers of the punching and cutting section and other occupational groups of an iranian axial parts factory in 20...

contemporary poets and writers use from their past legacy and their work influenced by the relationship to the bad or good works of the past writers whom they revealed strength and weakness of the past societies. najib mahfouz used past legacy in his work by “thartharafawq al-nil (“chatter on the nile”) and animate and quicken his novel with this skill. he used kinds of past legacies such as hi...