BACKGROUND Many people suffer from complaints of the arm, neck or shoulder (CANS). CANS causes significant work problems, including absenteeism (sickness absence), presenteeism (decreased work productivity) and, ultimately, job loss. There is a need for intervention programs for people suffering from CANS. Management of symptoms and workload, and improving the workstyle, could be important fact...

BACKGROUND Complaints of arms, neck and shoulders (CANS) is common among computer office workers. We evaluated an aetiological model with physical/psychosocial risk-factors. METHODS We invited 2,500 computer office workers for the study. Data on prevalence and risk-factors of CANS were collected by validated Maastricht-Upper-extremity-Questionnaire. Workstations were evaluated by Occupational...

Torsten Eymann, 2-3 ECTS, "Philosophy of Science, Modelling and Simulation for Computer Scientists [29]" (June 17 26) (New) Ivan Rodero, 3 ECTS, "Research challenges and platforms for Complex Computational and Data-enabled Science and Engineering [30]" (June 25 July 12, Erasmus Mundus Scholar, EACEA Funded). (New) Jose Luis Larriba, 1 ECTS, "Workshop Graph Databases: from technology to analysis...

BACKGROUND Many people suffer from complaints of the arm, neck and/or shoulder (CANS). The complaints are persistent and there is a need for intervention programs for those with longstanding CANS. Studies suggest that a behavioural change is needed in employees with CANS. A self-management program with an add-on eHealth module might be an effective option to achieve the behavioural change neede...

We developed and validated the Conceptual Assessment of Natural Selection (CANS), a multiple-choice test designed to assess how well college students understand the central principles of natural selection. The expert panel that reviewed the CANS concluded its questions were relevant to natural selection and generally did a good job sampling the specific concepts they were intended to assess. St...

This paper describes an adaptive network infrastructure, Composable Adaptive Network Services (CANS), for bridging the bandwidth and resource gap between network services and mobile clients. CANS enables construction of service access paths augmented with ‘impedance matching’ components that handle operations such as caching, protocol conversion, and content transcoding. The CANS infrastructure...

BACKGROUND When developing an effective early preventive strategy for employees and students with CANS (Complaints of Arm, Neck or Shoulder, not caused by acute trauma or systemic disease), insight in help seeking behaviour and knowledge of factors associated with help seeking behaviour within the target population, is a prerequisite. The aim of this study was to examine whether perceived hindr...

BACKGROUND Visceral hypersensitivity is a clinical observation made when diagnosing patients with functional bowel disorders. The cause of visceral hypersensitivity is unknown but is thought to be attributed to inflammation. Previously we demonstrated that a unique set of enteric neurons, colospinal afferent neurons (CANs), co-localize with the NR1 and NR2D subunits of the NMDA receptor as well...

BACKGROUND Complaints of arm, neck and/or shoulders (CANS) affects millions of computer office workers. However its prevalence and associated risk factors in developing countries are yet to be investigated, due to non availability of validated assessment tools for these countries. We evaluated the 1-year prevalence of CANS among computer office workers in Sri Lanka and tested the psychometric p...