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    • Work Characteristics and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Women 

      Kroenke, C. H.; Spiegelman, D.; Manson, J.; Schernhammer, E. S.; Colditz, G. A.; Kawachi, I. (, 2006)
      The authors prospectively investigated associations between potentially stressful work characteristics and type 2 diabetes incidence in 62,574 young and middle-aged women, aged 29-46 years at baseline in 1993, from the ...

    • Work Integration for Beneficiaries of International Protection: What Laws Work Best in the United States of America and in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg? 

      Gouverneur, Christine (2017-04-26)
      The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (Geneva, 28 July 1951), as amended by its Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (New York, 31 January 1967), confers on refugees the right to gainful employment ...

    • Work left undone 

      Redlich, Fritz (Harvard Library, 1973)

    • The work of Cédric Villani 

      Yau, Horng-Tzer (International Congress of Mathematicians, 2010)
      The starting point of C´edric Villani’s work goes back to the introduction of entropy in the nineteenth century by L. Carnot and R. Clausius. At the time, entropy was a vague concept and its rigorous definition had to wait ...

    • The work of George Foot Moore 

      Smith, Morton (Harvard Library, 1967)

    • The work of Maryam Mirzakhani 

      McMullen, Curtis T. (2014)
      Maryam Mirzakhani has been awarded the Fields Medal for her outstanding work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.

    • The Work of Re-Membering: After Genocide and Mass Atrocity 

      Minow, Martha Louise (1999)
      First, this article explores the role of international criminal trails and truth commissions in resisting narratives of collective guilt and producing a different sort of collective memory, helping the society-and the ...

    • Work Schedule During Pregnancy and Spontaneous Abortion 

      Whelan, Elizabeth A.; Lawson, Christina C.; Grajewski, Barbara; Hibert, Eileen N.; Spiegelman, Donna; Rich-Edwards, Janet W. (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2007)
      Background: There is inconsistent evidence as to whether work schedule (including rotating shifts and night work) can affect reproductive outcomes.Methods: We investigated the association between work schedule and risk of ...

    • Work Stress as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease 

      Kivimäki, Mika; Kawachi, Ichiro (Springer US, 2015)
      The role of psychosocial work stress as a risk factor for chronic disease has been the subject of considerable debate. Many researchers argue in support of a causal connection while others remain skeptical and have argued ...

    • Work that Matters: Activating Student Voice to Codesign Antiracist Schools 

      Kabban, Mark Noel (2021-10-15)
      The story of High Tech High (HTH) is an extraordinary startup story. After opening a single high school in September 2000, HTH has evolved into an integrated network of 16 charter schools, serving approximately 6,350 ...

    • The "Work" Race Does: Back to the Future 

      Bobo, Lawrence; Dawson, Michael (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

    • Workers Ownership and Profit-Sharing in a New Capitalist Model? 

      Freeman, Richard Barry (Swedish Trade Union Confederation, 2015)

    • The Workforce Almanac: System-Level View of U.S. Workforce Training Providers 

      Gable, Alexis; Forshaw, Tessa; Lipson, Rachel; Gazzaneo, Nathalie (Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, 2023-11)
      The future of work increasingly requires workers of all education levels to reskill and upskill. As the rate of emerging technologies integrating into work rises, so do the costs to people who do not update their skills. ...

    • Workforce data in action 

      Sanchez, Michael; Seibel, Sherry (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022)
      The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is responsible for policy recommendations, partitioning government funds to grant awardees, and overseeing the wellbeing of our nation’s workers. It utilizes government research ...

    • The Workforce of Pioneer Plants 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Neffke, Frank (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-01)
      Is labor mobility important in technological diffusion? We address this question by asking how plants assemble their workforce if they are industry pioneers in a location. By definition, these plants cannot hire local ...

    • Workgroup Report: Workshop on Source Apportionment of Particulate Matter Health Effects—Intercomparison of Results and Implications 

      Thurston, George D.; Ito, Kazuhiko; Mar, Therese; Christensen, William F.; Eatough, Delbert J.; Henry, Ronald C.; Lall, Ramona; Larson, Timothy V.; Neas, Lucas; Pinto, Joseph; Stölzel, Matthias; Hopke, Philip K.; Kim, Eugene; Laden, Francine; Liu, Hao; Suh MacIntosh, Helen H. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2005)
      Although the association between exposure to ambient fine particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter < 2.5 μm (PM\(_{2.5}\)) and human mortality is well established, the most responsible particle types/sources are not ...

    • Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing and Outsourcing of Capital and Labor 

      Kennedy, David W. (University of Texas School of Law, 2005)
      On February 10 and 11, 2005, the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice held its inaugural conference, "Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing and Outsourcing of Capital and Labor." The ...

    • Working for Nothing: The Supply of Volunteer Labor 

      Freeman, Richard Barry (University of Chicago Press, 1997)
      Volunteer activity is work performed without monetary recompense. This article shows that volunteering is a sizeable economic activity in the United States, that volunteers have high skills and opportunity costs of time, ...

    • Working in the Fun Palace: Revisiting Kinematics in the Smart Building 

      Pugh, Matthew Eric (2021-05-24)
      Archigram’s playful experiments in kinematic structures were an early precedent to the smart building systems we find commonplace today. Driving techno-utopian visions of moveable spaces in projects like Fun Palace and ...

    • Working Memory and the Suppression of Reflexive Saccades 

      Mitchell, Jason Paul; Macrae, C. Neil; Gilchrist, Iain D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2002)
      Conscious behavioral intentions can frequently fail under conditions of attentional depletion. In attempting to trace the cognitive origin of this effect, we hypothesized that failures of action control—specifically, ...