The effects of work height, workpiece orientation, gender, and screwdriver type on productivity and wrist deviation

PG Dempsey, RW McGorry, NV O'Brien - International Journal of Industrial …, 2004 - Elsevier
An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of work height, workpiece orientation,
gender, and screwdriver type (Phillips or flat head) on productivity and wrist deviation …

Influence of three principles of pacing on the temporal organisation of work during cyclic assembly and disassembly tasks

…, SE Mathiassen, JA Jackson, NV O'Brien - Ergonomics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
A study was conducted to investigate the influence of different approaches to arranging the
pace and temporal organisation of repetitive assembly and disassembly tasks on both …

Secular changes in psychophysically determined maximum acceptable weights and forces over 20 years for male industrial workers

VM Ciriello, PG Dempsey, RV Maikala, NV O'Brien - Ergonomics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The most frequent and expensive cause of compensable workplace injuries loss is manual
material handling (MMH). In an attempt to minimise these losses, refinement of existing MMH …

Oxygen consumption prediction models for individual and combination materials handling tasks

PG Dempsey, VM Ciriello, RV Maikala, NV O'Brien - Ergonomics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
An experiment was conducted to develop models to predict oxygen consumption of males
and females engaged in common materials handling tasks including lifting, lowering, pushing, …

Gender differences in psychophysically determined maximum acceptable weights and forces for industrial workers observed after twenty years

…, RV Maikala, PG Dempsey, NV O'Brien - International archives of …, 2011 - Springer
Purpose In the year 1991, manual materials handling guidelines were published by Liberty
Mutual Research Institute for Safety. In these guidelines, maximum acceptable weights (…

Revisited: Comparison of two techniques to establish maximum acceptable forces of dynamic pushing for male industrial workers

…, PG Dempsey, RV Maikala, NV O'Brien - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
The purpose of this experiment was to replicate a previous psychophysical experiment [Ciriello,
VM, McGorry, RW, Martin, SE, Bezverkny, IB, 1999b. Maximum acceptable forces of …

Maximal acceptable torques of six highly repetitive hand-wrist motions for male industrial workers

VM Ciriello, RV Maikala, NV O'Brien - Human factors, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: The purpose of the study was to quantify maximum acceptable torques (MATs) in
16 healthy male industrial workers while performing six motions: screw driving clockwise …

[BOOK][B] The third policeman: A novel

F O'Brien - 1999 - books.google.com
… In 1939 O'Brien (as I will now call him) set about writing another work of fiction, calling it
The Third Policeman. He hoped to have it published by Longman's, and on May 1, 1939 he …

Psychophysically determined forces of dynamic pushing for female industrial workers: Comparison of two apparatuses

VM Ciriello, RV Maikala, PG Dempsey, NV O'Brien - Applied ergonomics, 2010 - Elsevier
Using psychophysics, the maximum acceptable forces for pushing have been previously
developed using a magnetic particle brake (MPB) treadmill at the Liberty Mutual Research …

Flann O'Brien," An Beal Bocht" and Other Irish Matters

BÓ Conaire - Irish University Review, 1973 - JSTOR
… Nuah?in/0'Nolan or Flann O'Brien ? that he has entered the other world of Irish journalistic
and social myth and legend. The number of incidental references to Myles in contemporary …