OBJECTIVE To investigate cancer deaths among rubber industry workers according to company size. METHODS This historical cohort study included 9,188 male workers, engaged as members of a workers' union in São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, between 1975 and 1985, alive in January 1990 and followed until the end of 2000. Overall and specific cancer deaths were compared within the cohort, with subje...

Comparison f motivational patterns of information systems (IS) and non-information systems people in the same occupational group reveals no significant differences. This finding contrasts with prior writings. Conceptually, this study focuses on a more complete set of motivators of productive work behavior. Methodologically, it measures motivators with a constrained-choice hecklist, samples empl...

Forty female clerical workers were randomly assigned to a control condition or to 3-hr exposure to low-intensity noise designed to simulate typical open-office noise levels. The simulated open-office noise elevated workers' urinary epinephrine levels, but not their norepinephrine or cortisol levels, and it produced behavioral aftereffects (fewer attempts at unsolvable puzzles) indicative of mot...

A L L T H E BASIC operations and many of the more complex ones in a library depend fundamentally upon clerical aptitude. Clerical aptitude is necessary in shelving books, in filing various types of cards, in searching for missing books, in using catalogs and indexes, and in revising slipping or typing or cataloging— indeed in almost every operation required in a library. The clerical aptitude r...

Anemia that accompanies lead poisoning is in part the result of various inhibitory effects of lead on heme biosynthesis. Lead also increases the rate of red blood cell destruction due to the profoundly depressed activities of erythrocyte pyrimidine 5'-nucleotidase (P5N) activities. We studied parameters of the two metabolic pathways in the workers exposed to lead to evaluate P5N in the lead exp...

Automation is expected to have strong implications for labour-saving technologies. We calculate the proportion of jobs at high risk automation across European regions using data from 2018 Labour Force Survey (LFS). examine relationship between regional vulnerability job automation, specialization, related (and unrelated) variety and agglomeration. The results indicate that low benefit unrelated...

Background. Controlled studies suggest that clerical child sexual offenders may be better adjusted psychologically than their lay counterparts, although no studies of Irish clerical offenders have been reported. Aim. To compare clerical and non-clerical sexual offenders with a normal control group, within an Irish context, on broad-band personality traits and narrow-band psychological character...