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the impacts of such technologies on the human work. Several common points and the most frequent apprehension have been identified, specially those related with employment, professional deskilling and new management patterns needed to cope with the renewed forms of doing the jobs. The items that discuss measures to soften the negative impacts and to enhance the positive ones are also presented. * KEY WORDS: Technology, technology impacts, human work. São Paulo, 33(1 ):106-121…

company, it's time to meet people who work from their homes, surrounded by computers, printers, a fax machine and a modem. "I can do my thing without any interruption," says one of those successful home-based workers. Approximately 39 million Americans do all or part of their work in their homes, a 56.6 percent increase over the last five years. 2 Of that number, the largest segment - 12.1 million, or 31 percent of the total - are self-employed individuals who work at home full-time.…

permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher. Warning: The doing of an unauthorised act in relation to a copyright work may result in both a civil claim for damages and criminal prosecution. The right of Paolo J. Knill, Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2005 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers 116…

NANCY TUANA, GENERAL EDITOR This series consists of edited collections of essays, some original and some previously published, offering feminist re-interpretations of the writings of major figures in the Western philosophical tradition. Devoted to the work of a single philosopher, each volume contains essays covering the full range of the philosopher’s thought and representing the diversity of approaches now being used by feminist critics. Already published: Nancy Tuana, ed., Feminist…

relation to studies of heavy rains that used partial duration series, there are only a few studies and, in these the criterion for choosing the base constitution value for the formation of the series does not follow a common rule. In this sense, the work by BELL (1969) used, as the criterion for the baseline to compose the series, was rains with return period of 2 years and hourly duration. The author also considered the possibility of estimating IDF relationships in places where…

abril de 1990. CLARK C, MARTIN R, VAN KEMPEN E, ALFRED T, HEAD J, DAVIES H, HAINES M, LOPEZ B, MATHESON M, STANSFELD, S. Exposure- effect relations between aircraft and road traffic noise exposure at school and reading comprehension: the RANCH project. Am J Epidemiol 163: 27-37, 2006. CALIXTO, A. O ruído gerado pelo tráfego de veículos em “rodovias grandes avenidas” situadas dentro do perímetro urbano de Curitiba, analisado sob parâmetros acústicos objetivos e seu impacto ambiental. 2002. 135

impacts of such technologies on the human work. Several common points and the most frequent apprehension have been identified, specially those related with employment, professional deskilling and new management patterns needed to cope with the renewed forms of doing the jobs. The items that discuss measures to soften the negative impacts and to enhance the positive ones are also presented. * KEY WORDS: Technology, technology impacts, human work. São Paulo, 33(1 ):1 06-121 …

availability, and measuring methods (Manning, 1993). Monitoring and measurement are the final steps in the planning process, since they can make sustainable tourism development operational. According to Inskeep (1991), assessing the impact of development projects and evaluating their performance during their implementation phases require the use of mitigation measures and indicators. In the past few decades, great efforts have been made in developing indicators that will provide better…

conditions and determinants in the elderly are essential to help develop health policies for this population. In this work we present some basic concepts in epidemiology, the main design of observational studies, and their application in the field of aging. Descriptive and analytical studies (ecological, cross-sectional, case-control and cohort) are presented using examples of research projects carried out in Brazil. The main sources of bias, such as the use of proxy respondent,…

and potentially shorten the timeline to implementation. To this end, governments around the world, including the United States, the European Union, Canada, Australia, and China, are coinvesting with industry in a wide range of R&D and demonstration projects [3]. Current approaches for CCS can be grouped into three conceptual categories, shown in Fig. 1. Post-combustion capture involves separation from flue gases and requires that CO2 be recovered from gas streams containing N2 , H2 O,…