Effects of prone position on physiological and biomechanical parameters in healthy adults
Recommendation of health-based biological guidance value for aluminium and its inorganic compounds for workers and the g...
Human biomonitoring is a useful tool for assessing exposure to chemicals, and the resulting individual and collective health risks, in both occupational and environmental settings. It allows targeting of preventive measures on specific populations or tasks, then to assess their effectiveness. For the interpretation of biomonitoring results, health-...
Understanding Barriers to Legal Action: The Discrimination of Immigrant Workers in Alameda County
A Study of Commuting Conditions for Construction Professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area
This paper investigates the commuting experiences of workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a focus on construction industry professionals. Numerous scientific studies and reports have been done regarding both traffic congestion in the Bay Area and commuting conditions for construction workers. By comparing points of information on Bay Area wo...
Work from home and subjective wellbeing
Everyone expects telework to ‘stick’, but will this make workers happier? On the one hand, work from home (WFH) is clearly desired by a majority of workers, as evidenced by their willingness to pay for this arrangement. This finding is supported by all choice experiments, either real, on a recruitment platform for example, or hypothetical, via surv...
Work-related problems and the psychosocial characteristics of individuals with irritable bowel syndrome: an updated lite...
Published in BioPsychoSocial Medicine
Background Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common, functional gastrointestinal disorder. Because IBS often develops and worsens with stress, it requires treatment from both physical and mental perspectives. Recent years have seen increasing reports of its impact on the daily performance and productivity of workers with IBS, leading to sick leav...
The role of temperature on the development of circadian rhythms in honey bee workers
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Published in PeerJ
Circadian rhythms in honey bees are involved in various processes that impact colony survival. For example, young nurses take care of the brood constantly throughout the day and lack circadian rhythms. At the same time, foragers use the circadian clock to remember and predict food availability in subsequent days. Previous studies exploring the onto...
Sex-specific element accumulation in honey bees (Apis mellifera).
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international
Honey bees are social insects that show division of labor and sexual dimorphism. Female honey bees differentiate in two different castes, queens or worker bees, while males are called drones. Worker bees have different tasks in the hive including collection of food, its processing, caring for brood, protecting the hive, or producing wax. The drones...
Sudden cardiac death among workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Published in Systematic Reviews
Objective Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a rare and yet unexplained condition. The most frequent cause is myocardial infarction, while a small proportion is due to arrhythmogenic syndromes (e.g., channelopathies). This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of the prevalence and risk factors associated with SCD...
Knowledge, attitudes, and practice about hepatitis B infection among primary health care nurses in Buraidah, Qassim Regi...
Published in Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Background: Nurses are at increased risk of acquiring HB infection due to occupational exposure. To control this infection, basic knowledge and a positive attitude toward HB prevention are required. This study was conducted to assess knowledge, attitude, and practice of HB infection preventative measures among primary healthcare nurses in Buraidah,...
