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Safety and Health at Work, 2013 This paper describes progress on formulating a national asbestos profile for the country of Vietnam. The Center of Asbestos Resource, Vietnam, formulated a National Profile on Asbestos-related Occupational Health, with due reference to the International ...
Van Hai Pham +7 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Biodurability is one of the main determinants of asbestos hazardousness for human health. Very little is known about the actual persistence of asbestos in lungs and its clearance, nor about differences in this regard between the different mineralogical ...
Silvia D. Visonà +12 more
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The Evolution of Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Distribution Plans [PDF]
, 2006 The evolution of asbestos litigation from the early 1970s to the present has become the source of much analysis. One commentator divides this history into several phases: the heroic phase, bureaucratic floundering, adaptation and maturity, search for ...
McGovern, Francis
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Surface reactivity of amphibole asbestos. A comparison between crocidolite and tremolite [PDF]
, 2017 Among asbestos minerals, fibrous riebeckite (crocidolite) and tremolite share the amphibole structure but largely differ in terms of their iron content and oxidation state. In asbestos toxicology, iron-generated free radicals are largely held as one of
Andreozzi, Giovanni B. +4 more
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background We investigated associations of self‐reported and job exposure matrix (JEM) assigned civilian occupational exposure to vapors, gas, dust, or fumes (VGDF) with respiratory symptoms among previously deployed US Veterans. Methods An interviewer‐administered questionnaire ascertained self‐reported civilian occupational VGDF exposure.
Sahra Mohazzab‐Hosseinian +14 more
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Annals of Global Health, 2014 Background: Asbestos continues to be used in large quantities around the world and to be an important commodity in global trade. Objective: To assess and quantify current global patterns of asbestos production, export and use; to examine global patterns ...
Arthur L. Frank, T.K. Joshi
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SHOULD ROMANIANS BE CONCERNED WITH THE ASBESTOS BURDEN? RESEARCH OVERVIEW AND CONTEXT
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai: Geographia, 2021 Although the negative effects of airborne asbestos fibers upon human health had been known for a long time, asbestos was widely used all over the world. Between 1980 and 2010, many countries have banned asbestos production and trade; among them, Romania ...
Gabriela MUNTEANU
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Identifying and managing asbestiform minerals in geological collections [PDF]
, 2016 Asbestos is widely recognised as a serious hazard, and its industrial use is now banned within the UK, and EU, and strict regulations govern the use of older manufactured materials which may contain asbestos.
Davidson, Peter +3 more
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International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper conducts a comparative legal analysis of corporate restructuring frameworks in England and Bhutan, examining their capacity to integrate climate variability considerations and promote sustainable business practices. It discusses the procedural mechanisms for restructuring financially distressed enterprises available under the law of
Eugenio Vaccari, Migmar Lham
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Geospatial Health, 2018 Asbestos is carcinogenic to humans and exposure to this substance can cause a wide range of diseases. In Poland 1997, a statutory ban was introduced on the production, use and marketing of products containing asbestos. The National Programme for Asbestos
Małgorzata Krówczyńska, Ewa Wilk
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