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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"physical exposure"”.
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Evaluation of Markerless Motion Capture to Assess Physical Exposures During Material Handling Tasks
… construction, warehousing, and distribution. Physical exposure assessment can help identify high-risk tasks, guide the development and evaluation of ergonomic interventions, and contribute to understanding exposure-risk relationships. Physical exposure can be evaluated using self-assessment, …
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The Influence of Multiple Risk Factors on WMSD Risk and Evaluation of Measurement Methods Used to Assess Risks
… are not fully understood. Multiple factors (physical, psychosocial, and individual) have been associated with WMSD development, but causal inferences are not available due to lack of experimental designs. Because the responses, validity, and reliability of measured outcomes under …
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Canonical correlation of shipping forward curves
… from a hedge fund perspective, cross hedging any physical exposure in illiquid markets and portfolio optimization. Conditioning as a tool is also examined to demonstrate how more reliable correlation results can be obtained for cross hedging or other purposes, and how the best trading …
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Musculoskeletal disorders in demanding computer work - with air traffic control as a model
… mouse-work. The effect of the change on the physical exposure was studied, as well as the musculoskeletal health before and after the change. In addition, gender differences and psychosocial factors were assessed. The physical workload, recorded in 14 subjects in both systems by technical …
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A Deep Learning Approach to Side-Channel Analysis of Cryptographic Hardware
… growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and physical exposure of devices to adversaries, a class of physical attacks called side-channel analysis (SCA) has emerged which compromises the security of systems. While security claims of cryptographic algorithms are based on the complexity of …
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Identification, Evaluation and Control of Physically Demanding Patient-Handling Tasks in an Acute Care Facility
… long-term care facilities, and identifying physically demanding patient-handling tasks. The first study in this dissertation (Chapter 3) was conducted to determine whether nurses in acute care facilities are exposed to the same hazards as their cohorts in long-term care. The aim was to …
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Floods, favors and fixes: the reproduction of vulnerability in Santa Fe, Argentina
… disaster. Guarding against hazard by reducing exposure is one approach to averting or preventing disaster. But it is only part of the security equation. Vulnerability reduction is the other. While the interaction between hazard and vulnerability is recognized in the literature as fundamental in …
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Remembering East German Childhood In Post-Wende Life Narratives
… shared generational background in terms of their physical exposure to GDR life and the differences due to individually different experiences based on family history as well as the intended purpose of their narration.</p> <p>Chapter One provides an overview of the key theoretical frameworks I …
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A Study of the Impact of a Natural Disaster on Economic Behavior and Human Capital Across the Life Course
… and long-run impacts on child health of in utero exposure to stress induced by the tsunami. We investigate whether in utero exposure to stress, as measured by tsunami-induced maternal posttraumatic stress, affected the growth of children born in the aftermath of the tsunami in the critical first …