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Work and health in the coir industry in Sri Lanka: a descriptive study with a specific focus on risk factors for injuries and incidence of injuries at these workplaces
(Master thesis, 2021-11-23)Abstract Introduction The coir industry processes fibres from coconuts. This industry plays an important role in sustaining the livelihood of a large number of people in Sri Lanka. Coir-related exports account for 6% of ... -
Work and mental complaints: are response outcome expectancies more important than work conditions and number of subjective health complaints?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-24)Purpose Investigate the relative effect of response outcome expectancies, work conditions, and number of subjective health complaints (SHC) on anxiety and depression in Norwegian employees. Learned response outcome ... -
"Work and Strengthening": Ontological dualism and the ethical treatment of mentally ill patients in Madagascar
(Master thesis, 2014-08-11)This thesis is based on fieldwork within a revival movement in Madagascar that treats mentally ill patients with exorcism. I explore the meaning of submission and the problem of ontological dualism based on my experiences. -
Work Environment and Respiratory Health among Sisal Processors in Tanzania : Studies in six sisal factories
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-12-12)Background: Very little is known about work and health in the sisal industry. Previous studies on sisal are old and mainly focused on sisal fibre textiles and rope factories. Stationary dust concentration rather than ... -
The Work Ethic and Social Change in the Czech Republic and Slovakia – a Modernisation Theory Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article investigates long-term trends in the work ethic in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from the perspective of modernisation theory. In particular, it examines whether the work ethic in the two culturally similar ... -
'A Work of Life'. Jane Ellen Harrison on Old Age
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The article examines the classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrison’s (1850-1928) thoughts about aging both as a cultural phenomenon and as personal experience. It argues that her reflections are poised between two diverging ... -
The Work of the Witness: Leonard Woolf, Imperialism, and Totalitarianism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Starting from an interest in witnessing as a set of conceptual and narrative operations that also involve comparison as a fundamental cognitive practice, this essay examines the work of the witness at two historically ... -
Work orientations in contemporary advanced societies : Three comparative studies based on large-scale cross-national survey data
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-11)This thesis investigates work orientations among workers in contemporary capitalist societies from a comparative cross-national perspective. It consists of three individual studies. Each applies a different conceptual and ... -
Work participation in ADHD and associations with social characteristics, education, lifetime depression, and ADHD symptom severity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06)The literature refers to high rates of occupational failure in the population of adults with ADHD. The explanation for this is less known. The aim of the present study was to examine associations between social characteristics ... -
Work, Pension and Reform: A Comparative Analysis of Norway and Denmark in light of OECD Recommendations
(Master thesis, 2003)The thesis addresses the subject of ageing societies resulting from demographic trends of population, individual and active ageing. Societies are aging across the world, but the focus of this study is the OECD area in ... -
Work-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy and individual job support to increase work participation in common mental disorders: a randomised controlled multicentre trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-08-06)Objectives: Common mental disorders (CMDs) are a major cause of rising disability benefit expenditures. We urgently need evidence on programmes that can increase work participation in CMDs. The aim of this study was to ... -
Work-life balance and health of women: A Qualitative Study of a Mining Company in Ghana
(Master thesis, 2014-05-13)Background: Both work and non-work activities are crucial to living and hence there is a need for balance and integration of career and other demands of life (Sturges & Guest, 2004). In many African countries after the ... -
Work-related risk factors for workplace bullying : The moderating effect of laissez-faire leadership
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-06-07)Workplace bullying has been described as repeated and systematic exposure to negative social acts over time, which the target has difficulties defending against (Einarsen et al., 2020). Previous research has established ... -
Worker-recuperated enterprises in Argentina : A comparative case study of two print shops in Buenos Aires
(Master thesis, 2011-05-30)This thesis is about the recuperated enterprises in Argentina, referred to as ERTs throughout the thesis, which has been seen as one out of many forms of social protests/ ways of coping which grew out of Argentina's ... -
The Workers' movement and civil society in Egypt. From underground to mass-movement and back again
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)This master thesis analyses the relationship between the workers' movement and civil society in Egypt within the time period from 1984 to 2013. Four different organisations are discussed from their early years of underground ... -
Workflow management systems
(Master thesis, 2007-12-01)This master's thesis gives an insight to workflow technologies used to improve efficiency of business processes. Ways to use such technologies in order to help users through tasks in MIPS (Material Integrated Production ... -
Workflow Partitioning for Offline Distributed Execution on Mobile Devices
(CEUR Workshop Proceedings; 855, Chapter, 2012)Traditionally, workflow systems are built on the client/server architecture, in which a single workflow server takes the responsibility for the operation of the whole process, thereby requiring connections each time a task ... -
The Workflow synchronizer
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)Workflow Synchronizer was developed in order to support Workflow Management in openXdata which is an open source solution for surveys and studies. The Workflow Synchronizer takes an event log and matches it with the planned ... -
The Working Alliance in Individual Psychotherapy: Factor Structure, Baseline Predictors, and Outcome
(Master thesis, 2012-04-15)Objective: Research indicates that the working alliance is a stable predictor of outcome. The majority of previous research has relied on a one-component model for alliance and failed to cover all theoretical aspects of ... -
Working and Learning in a Field Excursion
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-06)This study aimed to discern sociocultural processes through which students learn in field excursions. To achieve this aim, short-term ethnographic techniques were employed to examine how undergraduate students work and ...