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HIV Risk among Urban, Female Crack Cocaine Users: The Association of Criminal Justice Involvement on HIV Risk Reduction
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Using data from a NIDA-funded study that randomly assigned female substance users to one of three intervention groups, this work stratified crack cocaine using women into groups according to criminal justice history: 1) St. Louis Female Drug Court referred; 2) community recruited with lifetime arrest; and 3) community recruited with no lifetime arrest history. Analyses focused on determining whether women differed on health and behavioral risk factors upon enrollment; whether the enhanced interventions were more effective than the NIDA standard at reducing high-risk drug use and sexual behaviors post-intervention; and whether drug use behaviors changed with greater frequency than sexual risk behaviors, in response to the HIV intervention between baseline, 4 and 12 month follow-up interviews. Findings are presented in detail and, overall, confirm that cocaine using women can change high-risk behaviors, although further efforts to tailor interventions are necessary.

Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks
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Esther Eidinow sets the published question tablets from the oracle at Dodona side by side with the binding-curse tablets from across the ancient Greek world, and explores what they can tell us about perceptions of and expressions of risk among ordinary Greek men and women, as well as the insights they afford into civic institutions and activities, and social dynamics. Eidinow follows the anthropologist Mary Douglas in defining `risk' as socially constructed, in contradistinction to most other ancient historians, who treat risk-management as a way of handling objective external dangers. The book includes a full catalogue of all published texts from Dodona, as well as the 159 curse tablets discussed, together with translations of all texts.

Midnight Among Us
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Effectiveness of workstation design on reducing musculoskeletal risk factors and symptoms among semiconductor fabrication room workers [An article from: International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics]
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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ergonomic workstation design on musculoskeletal risk factors (MRFs) and musculoskeletal symptoms (MSSs) reduction among female semiconductor fabrication room (fab) worker. A prospective study was conducted to follow up 40 female fab workers over 3 months after intervention. The intervention program focused on reducing shoulder loadings for 20 female fab workers by redesigning nine workstations. Simultaneous comparisons were made for the other 20 female fab workers using original workstations. One customized observation checklist and Nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire were used to evaluate workers' MRFs and MSSs, respectively. One month after intervention, MRFs of awkward shoulder postures and repetitive motions and MSSs in shoulders for the intervention group were significantly lower than those for the control group. The lowering effects persisted for 3 months on awkward shoulder postures but lasted for only 1 month on repetitive motions and shoulder symptoms after intervention. Relevance to industry: This study demonstrates a systematic approach for assessing effectiveness of ergonomically redesigned workstations tailored for female fab workers on reducing their awkward shoulder postures and shoulder symptoms. Industries can use our findings to design or evaluate their ergonomic intervention programs in the workplace or use our workstation specifications to purchase their manufacturing equipments in the future.