occupational and environmental lung diseases

... Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Occupational Medicine Occupational Safety and Health Act Occupational Safety and Health Administration Terms Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission ... of occupational safety and environmental health for more than eighteen years This experience has included the development, implementation, administration, and management of occupational and environmental ... occupational safety and environmental training and consulting services to a number of domestic and international clients Mr Vincoli has provided safety, health, and environmental training and management...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20

... life, development, and survival of an organism Includes water, air, land, and all plants and man and other animals living therein, and the interrelationships which exist among these environmental ... standards emission standard (1) Standards for the levels of pollutants emitted from automobiles and trucks Congress established the first standards in the Clean Air Act of 1963 Currently, standards ... estuary and any island, transitional area, and upland in, adjoining, or adjacent to such estuary, and which constitutes to the extent feasible a natural unit, set aside to provide scientists and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20

... industrial hygiene (IH) The art and science of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling occupational and environmental health hazards in the work place and the surrounding community ... vessels and whose main activities according to the value added are inland waterway transport and services allied to inland waterway transport inland waterways cabotage transport National inland waterways ... inland waterway over one kilometer ©2000 CRC Press LLC inland zone The environment inland of the coastal zone excluding the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, and specified ports and harbors on inland...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20

... bones and joints, whitening and numbness in one or more fingers of either hand, skin atrophy, and occasionally gangrene Also referred to as Raynaud's disease, dead hands, and vibration white-hands ... quarter of a section of land according to the divisions of a government survey, determined by dividing the section into four equal parts by north and south and east and west, and containing 160 acres ... objective in collecting a random sample is to obtain a sample which is free of bias random signal See random process random variable A real function whose value is determined randomly Also referred...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20

... Recently, Takahashi and colleagues reported the serum levels of SP-A and SP-D, and disease extent in IPF and lung fibrosis associated with scleroderma [10] In IPF, both SP-A and SP-D concentrations ... the development and severity of many ILDs Surfactant plays an important role in lung physiology and defense, and surfactant gene variations have been associated with several lung diseases The recent ... proteins SP-A1, SP-A2 and SP-D have been mapped to human chromosome 10q22q23.1 The SP-A1 gene is telomeric to the SP-A2 and SPD genes: the SP-A2 and SP-D genes are located 36 kb and 130 kb respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... symptoms and imaging findings of these diseases mainly in travelers and immigrants from tropical endemic areas Jean-Marie Kayembe Section Oncogenesis and the Lung Chapter Angiogenesis and Lung Cancer ... 40 Oncogenesis, Inflammatory and Parasitic Tropical Diseases of the Lung 4.4 Receptor-type protein tyrosine kinase and lung cancer − Roles of EGFR 4.4.1 EGFR and lung cancer Epidermal growth ... Hoogsteden, J.G.J.V Aerts and M.M van der Eerden Chapter New Frontiers in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Neutrophilic Lung Diseases 99 T Andrew Guess, Amit Gaggar and Matthew T Hardison...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 14:20

... systems and the occupational safety and health system The focus was on a comparative consideration of social security and on the changes in the rates of occupational accidents and occupational diseases ... newly registered occupational diseases in Estonia, Slovakia and Belarus, and decreases in Latvia, Croatia, Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic In 2004, a total of 49 occupational diseases were ... systems and the number of occupational diseases are not yet available Closed lists of occupational diseases exist in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Slovakia...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... inflammation/infection and may represent a promising marker and therapeutic target in respiratory diseases The expression, regulation and clinical significance of sCD14 and mCD14 in pediatric lung diseases ... defined Therefore, we quantified sCD14 and mCD14 levels in peripheral blood and BALF of children with infectious and non-infectious pediatric lung disease and healthy control groups Furthermore, ... TLR1/2 ligand), zymosan A (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, TLR2/6 ligand) and LPS from E coli (TLR4 ligand)were from Invivogen (San Diego, CA, USA) R848 (resiquimod hydrochloride; a single-stranded RNA...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:21

... genetic and environmental influence on lung function by sex, and suggests that patients with lung diseases such as COPD could benefit from interventions that are sex specific both on the genetic and ... Figure Unadjusted and adjusted genetic, shared and non-shared environmental variance components for VC, FEV1, and DLco in men and women Variance is expressed in absolute numbers and is shown for ... (A), shared environmental factors (C) and nonshared environmental factors (E) was used for VC and FEV The comparisons of variance models indicated that the importance of genetic and environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... coverings, canvas belting, nets, and construction lumber and poles It is used in paints, pulp stock, pulp, and paper, and to cool tower water, and as preservative for hard board and particle board Because ... burlap, canvas, rope, leather, and manufacture of paper Petroleum and other drilling Manufacture and use of paints and adhesives Telephone and electrical line work Dyeing and cleaning of garments ... as starches and adhesives Addition of PCP to leather, oils, paints, latex, and rubber Manufacture of herbicides Industrial cooling towers and evaporative condensers Treatment and handling of wood,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2012, 15:31

... combination of medical treatment and surgery, with a final visual acuity of 40% in the affected eye [1] The only case of Lyme disease affected a 31 year-old farmer and his ocular manifestations...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11

... reactors and placing an unjustified - 86 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.3, No.1, 2005 expense (in terms of over sizing and operation with more power than necessary) on the owner and ... distribution, and without making any unsafe assumptions, provides a methodology that is safe with respect to the protection of public and environmental health - 88 - Journal of Water and Environment ... ALL TOGETHER: VALIDATION AND SAFETY FACTORS UV reactor validations quantify equipment performance, but contain some inherent and random uncertainty that can be quantified and applied as a safety...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... treatment plant effluent (10 mg/L), and rain water (5 and 10 mg/L) More than 20% degradation was observed in all Lake Tedori water and Unoke River water samples and rain water sample (1 mg/L) 100 ... samples (1, 5, and 10 mg/L), all deionized water samples, and Unoke River water samples (5 and 10 mg/L), after d of incubation However, the density decreased in all rain water samples and the Unoke ... N., Managaki S and Takada H (2008) Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment in Japan and Tropical Asian Countries, J of Water and Waste, 50(7), 559-569 Nonaka L and Suzuki S (2007)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... efficiency and renewable investments Conclusions and future work This research evaluates the relationship between environmental and energy factors and explores the value in tracking energy and environmental ... consumption rates 2.2 Environmental management system ISO 24511 is the standard set for environmental management systems to ensure an appropriate assurance to environmental issues and provide guidelines ... Intercept discharges; impose stringent environmental management and pollution controls Contamination of raw water source Implement and enforce water and land protection zones Water stress/ insufficient...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... and check in advance the possible influences of new products and procedures on the environment Already by and during the selection, development and optimization of our manufacturing methods and ... reduction of environmental impacts such as energy consumption, waste arising, emissions in air, water and soil We use and promote the dialog with the public! We inform and communicate openly and constructively ... Version 00 Date: Quality and Environment; continued Improvement Managementhandbook 01 – Chapter 07 Page of We feel committed to economical handling natural resources! We evaluate and monitor the impact...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 00:15

... fertility and natural resources, the way population growth and economic stress in poor countries are studied by environmental and resource economists, and the way development economists accomodate environmental ... fertility behaviour and free-riding on local common-property resources (Dasgupta and Mäler, 1991, 1995; Nerlove, 1991; Cleaver and Schreiber, 1994; Brander and Taylor, 1998; Section 7.4 and Appendix) ... J.J Heckman and E Leamer, eds., Handbook of Econometrics, (Amsterdam: North Holland) 43 Cain, M (1981), "Risk and Insurance: Perspectives on Fertility and Agrarian Change in India and Bangladesh",...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... 9.0) were used for compiling thematic maps and territorial organization maps of land use and environmental protection Spatial organization of land use and environmental protection 3.1 Territorial ... orientation for spatial organization in land use and environmental protection (II.4) Proposing measures for implementing spatial organization in land use and environmental protection for each sub-area ... analysis for environmental components; Mapping, remote sensing and GIS Integrated and inter-disciplinary surveys were conducted along traverses across the main types of landforms and characteristic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... Much environmental education is still purely science and technology oriented rather than addressing environmental and social issues in an integrated way Linking environmental and social issues and ... health and population Booklets under this theme: 6a Adult environmental education: awareness and environmental action 6b Health promotion and health education for adults 6c Adult education and population ... environment and acquire the knowledge, values, skills, experiences, and also the determination which will enable them to act individually and collectively to solve present and future environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... focus on the roles of ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF in obesity and related metabolic diseases, and discuss whether these ANGPTLs could be targets for the prevention and treatment of these conditions ... ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF in obesity and related metabolic diseases The expression of ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF is induced in obese conditions ANGPTL2 induces chronic adipose tissue inflammation and ... ANGPTLs in obesity and related metabolic diseases T Kadomatsu et al ANGPTL2 receptor activity or intracellular signaling might constitute promising treatments for obesity and metabolic diseases associated...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... natural resources and the environment and economic activity It is essential to understand the key physical flows and stocks and how they affect humans and economic activities and values A complete ... most precise of the data in the environmental accounts, and they have been extremely useful for understanding trends and levels in control costs and for examining how environmental programs have ... average value of agricultural land In general, edaphic and geomorphologic factors make forestland less valuable than agricultural lands, and the rate of change in forestland prices is uncorrelated...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 09:20