Situational awareness has received considerable attention in recent years and significant theoretical advances have been made. The advances to date can be categorised in three main schools of thought: psychological, engineering and systems ergonomics schools. We use the perspectives of the three schools to analyse the descent and approach of a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series described by Hutchin...

City entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial attitude and behavior of city authorities, can substantially be promoted by triangulation, i.e. by opening the city-citizen relationship for communities of knowledge such as universities. This paper reports on an experiment in Amsterdam, where civil servants, with their inherent focus on 'feasible' solutions, were co-learning with Master's students and...

QUESTION Are use and perceived load of school bags and the prevalence of spinal pain different between male and female adolescents? Is use of school bags related to perceived load of school bags? Are use and perceived load of school bags related to spinal pain? DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. PARTICIPANTS 1202 adolescents recruited from the 'Raine' Cohort Study. OUTCOME MEASUR...

BACKGROUND Different interventions can reduce the burden of the chronic low back pain. One example is the use of a 'Back School Programme'. This is a brief therapy that uses a health education method to empower participants through a procedure of assessment, education and skill development. This study aimed to evaluate to what extent the programme could improve quality of life in those who suff...