scholarly journals New Working Environments: Mission Started

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 895-895
Author(s):  
Jennifer Linn
Keyword(s):  
Working Environments

Serum of 8-OHdG as a potential biomarker of oxidative DNA damage in workers exposed to harmful working environments

2020 ◽  
pp. 783-783
Author(s):  
I. A. Umnyagina ◽  
L. A. Strakhova ◽  
T. V. Blinova
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Dna Damage ◽  
Blood Serum ◽  
Oxidative Dna Damage ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Potential Biomarker ◽  
High Level ◽  
Damage Marker

In the blood serum of 70% individuals exposed to harmful factors of the working environment, a high level of oxidative stress and the DNA damage marker 8-Hydroxy-2’-Deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) were detected.

scholarly journals New Working Environments: Mission Completed?

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
Jennifer Linn
Keyword(s):  
Working Environments

scholarly journals Can We Use Grip Strength to Predict Other Types of Hand Exertions? An Example of Manufacturing Industry Workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 856
Author(s):  
Victor Ei-Wen Lo ◽  
Yi-Chen Chiu ◽  
Hsin-Hung Tu
Keyword(s):  
Grip Strength ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Demographic Variable ◽  
Time Saving ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Central Taiwan ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
The Relationship

Background: There are different types of hand motions in people’s daily lives and working environments. However, testing duration increases as the types of hand motions increase to build a normative database. Long testing duration decreases the motivation of study participants. The purpose of this study is to propose models to predict pinch and press strength using grip strength. Methods: One hundred ninety-eight healthy volunteers were recruited from the manufacturing industries in Central Taiwan. The five types of hand motions were grip, lateral pinch, palmar pinch, thumb press, and ball of thumb press. Stepwise multiple linear regression was used to explore the relationship between force type, gender, height, weight, age, and muscle strength. Results: The prediction models developed according to the variable of the strength of the opposite hand are good for explaining variance (76.9–93.1%). Gender is the key demographic variable in the predicting models. Grip strength is not a good predictor of palmar pinch (adjusted-R2: 0.572–0.609), nor of thumb press and ball of thumb (adjusted-R2: 0.279–0.443). Conclusions: We recommend measuring the palmar pinch and ball of thumb strength and using them to predict the other two hand motions for convenience and time saving.

scholarly journals Rear-Seat Productivity in Virtual Reality: Investigating VR Interaction in the Confined Space of a Car

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Jingyi Li ◽  
Ceenu George ◽  
Andrea Ngao ◽  
Kai Holländer ◽  
Stefan Mayer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Rear Seat ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Confined Space ◽  
Physical Restraints ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Research And Design

Ubiquitous technology lets us work in flexible and decentralised ways. Passengers can already use travel time to be productive, and we envision even better performance and experience in vehicles with emerging technologies, such as virtual reality (VR) headsets. However, the confined physical space constrains interactions while the virtual space may be conceptually borderless. We therefore conducted a VR study (N = 33) to examine the influence of physical restraints and virtual working environments on performance, presence, and the feeling of safety. Our findings show that virtual borders make passengers touch the car interior less, while performance and presence are comparable across conditions. Although passengers prefer a secluded and unlimited virtual environment (nature), they are more productive in a shared and limited one (office). We further discuss choices for virtual borders and environments, social experience, and safety responsiveness. Our work highlights opportunities and challenges for future research and design of rear-seat VR interaction.

scholarly journals Cold working environments as an occupational risk factor for COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Cunningham ◽  
Paul J Nicholson ◽  
Jane O’Connor ◽  
John P McFadden
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Cold Working ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Occupational Risk Factor ◽  
Working Environments

Study on Ecological Design Strategy and Practice

2011 ◽  
Vol 374-377 ◽  
pp. 369-373
Author(s):  
Hua Li Zhang ◽  
Xiao Ling Dai ◽  
Hao Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Design Principle ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Ecological Design ◽  
Good Design ◽  
Good Working ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Low Energy Consumption

This paper explains and demonstrates why uses’ needs are as important as green design principle and a good design should consider a lot on human’s feeling. It suggests that future green building will be based on principles that fundamentally address many of the issues that have become to light from this research. They will offer good working environments in which people are able to work to the best of their ability, and have the added bonus of low energy consumption.

Anatomical movement replicator applied to activities in ionizing radiation fields

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3A) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Zacarias Mesquita
Keyword(s):  
Ionizing Radiation ◽  
Radiological Protection ◽  
Control Center ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Remote Manipulation ◽  
Radiation Fields ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Operation Costs ◽  
Human Arm ◽  
And Robotics

The aim of this work is to demonstrate the need to develop more efficient means for radiological protection, making use of the latest automation and robotics technologies. A manipulator model has been developed that has technological differentials that can positively influence the performance and cost of remote manipulation. The built-in equipment has a Slave manipulator, developed without using semiconductor elements. They are housed in the control center, which is attached to the manipulator via umbilical cord, facilitating the equipment adaptation in hot cells and other working environments. The arrangement of the joints and the links, have similarities with the anatomy of the human arm, improving the instinctively of the operation. To demonstrate its technological feasibility, a prototype Master-Slave manipulator was designed, and built using three control programs, which were written exclusively for this work. It was also designed to reduce construction and operation costs, making it accessible to most areas. The results obtained with the prototype construction are shown to be promising, providing an incentive to continue the development of manipulators using similar technologies. The equipment, obtained satisfactory results in relation to the operability, being able to perform movement tasks of loads, as foreseen in the project.

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