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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source

A Scoping Review on Male-Mediated Developmental Toxicity

Toxics
Background: Developmental toxicity is defined as adverse effects induced either during pregnancy or as a result of parental exposure. While considerable attention has been devoted to maternal exposure to such chemicals, the role of paternal exposure has ...
Lidia Caporossi, Paola Castellano, Enrico Paci, Daniela Pigini   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

İNŞAAT SEKTÖRÜNDE İŞ KAZALARI VE İŞ GÜVENLİĞİ MALİYETLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik ve Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021
In this study, the definition of work accident was made and then the concept of work accident in construction works was explained. The last five years of work accident statistics published by the Social Security Institution were examined.
Cemil Akcay
doaj   +1 more source

The Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases for Shift Workers in the Prospective Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Shift work can disrupt circadian rhythms and is postulated to play a role in cardiovascular diseases (CVD). In the German prospective population‐based Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study, we analyzed longitudinal associations between shift work and night‐shift work with CVD.
Katharina Wichert, Sylvia Rabstein, Raimund Erbel, Lewin Eisele, Marina Arendt, Nico Dragano, Karl‐Heinz Jöckel, Thomas Behrens   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exposure to Lead Compounds in an Industrial Setting and the Effects on the Thyroid Gland: A Pilot Cohort Study

Hygiene
Background: Lead compounds are chemicals of high toxicological concern and are suspected to interact with the thyroid axis. Method: A cohort study was carried out involving 70 workers from a petrochemical company exposed to inorganic lead compounds.
Lidia Caporossi, Simona Di Renzi, Mariangela De Rosa, Silvia Capanna, Elisa Partenzi, Iacopo D’Alessandro, Bruno Papaleo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Operationalizing BioSSbD: A safe‐and‐sustainable‐by‐design framework for biorefineries

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract Biorefineries are central to the transition toward a circular bioeconomy; however, their increasing scale and technological heterogeneity, and the integration of biological, chemical, and thermochemical processes introduce complex challenges related to safety, sustainability, and operational reliability. Existing Safe‐and‐Sustainable‐by‐Design
Fernando Ramonet
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing low-back loading during lifting using personalized electromyography-driven trunk models and NIOSH-based risk levels

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Workplace injury risk due to physically demanding tasks (e.g., repeated lifting) is currently assessed using ergonomic guidelines. The Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation (RNLE) is a commonly used approach that assesses risk of low-back loading during ...
Mohamed Irfan Refai, Tiwana Varrecchia, Giorgia Chini, Alberto Ranavolo, Massimo Sartori   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

OCCUPATIONAL EYE DISEASES AND ACCIDENTS

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1912
A complete catalogue of the various trades and industries in which accidents, even preventable accidents, causing partial or complete blindness of one or both eyes, although suggestive, would be of little service and would necessarily include nearly all the causes of accidents in general.
openaire   +2 more sources

‘I was treated as a deficit’: Immigrant teachers' career progression in Australia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrant teachers have long been recruited through skilled and employer‐sponsored migration schemes to address teacher shortages in Australia, yet their career trajectories remain constrained by systemic inequities that limit their integration and professional development opportunities.
Ching Ting Tany Kwee, Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen, Tony Loughland   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Profile of occupational accidents reporting to a rural Plantation Hospital: A record review

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, 2014
Background: Plantation industries in India employ over 1 million people and are among the largest private employers in India. Plantations employ both skilled and un-skilled labour’s.
R Naveen, N Swaroop, Suyash Agrawal, Anup Kumar Tirkey   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources