This study analyzed the relation and discrimination between five forms of job satisfaction (stabilized, progressive and resigned satisfaction; constructive and fixated dissatisfaction) regarding health, work-related determinants of health and demographic variables. Job satisfaction was assessed with a forced-choice survey item in 10 Swiss companies (768 employees). Significant differences betwe...

   In recent years, water pollution and pesticide residues in the food chain have become a serious environmental and health hazard problem. Therefore, an efficient technology is essential for complete mineralization of pesticides to non-toxic forms. Nanotechnology offers many potential benefits to improve existing environmental technologies using new materials with effective performance, re...

UNLABELLED The research focused on a systematic review of 959 cases operated for uterine fibromyoma (24.8%) from 3859 gynecological surgeries performed over a period of 10 years (2000-2010). MATERIALS AND METHODS The important parameters were those related to the general clinical and laboratory data, and especially those focused on the macro- and microscopic histopathological diagnostic metho...

Fibre type and burden in parenchymal tissues of workers occupationally exposed to asbestos in the United States. In: Non-occupational exposure to mineral fibre and patterns of asbestos-related disease in chrysotile miners and millers. Asbestos exposure dose-Broncho-alveolar milieu response in asbestos workers and the sheep model: evi-dences of a threshold for chrysotile-induced fibrosis. In a r...

Editorial Regarding Parnassus " It's tough to make predictions " , averred Lawrence 'Yogi' Berra, " especially about the future ". The Danish physicist Niels Bohr, said the same. This edition considers, in our small way, the past, present and future. How we did things in the past needn't influence how they're done in the present; and how we practise now shouldn't dictate the future direction. I...

There is limited knowledge regarding the attachment of cell wall-deficient forms of Listeria monocytogenes to abiotic and food contact surfaces. A typical L-form phenotype of Listeria monocytogenes was induced, propagated and recovered in both broth and plate culture by exposure to sub-lethal concentrations of ampicillin. Attachment of both cell-walled and L-forms to stainless steel were compar...

Practice effects in memory testing complicate the interpretation of score changes over repeated testings, particularly in clinical applications. Consequently, several alternative forms of the Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) have been developed. Studies of these typically indicate that the forms examined are equivalent. However, the implication that the forms in the literature are interchan...