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Battery Energy, EarlyView.We present an economically viable approach for synthesizing carbon nanomaterials derived from discarded cigarette filters, an abundant environmental pollutant. The resulting material exhibits desirable characteristics, including a well‐defined stacking structure, high porosity, and a substantial specific surface area, making it suitable as an active ...
Akash Sivanandan +5 more
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Current causes of mesothelioma: how has the asbestos ban changed the perspective?
Biomedical Papers, 2023 The association of mesothelioma, a lethal lung disease, with asbestos has led to an absolute ban on asbestos in at least 55 countries worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to review residual exposure to asbestos as well as other emerging causes of ...
Magdalena Janosikova +2 more
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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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OncoTarget, 2016 Background Asbestos is a harmful and exceptionally persistent natural material. Malignant mesothelioma (MM), an asbestos-related disease, is an insidious, lethal cancer that is poorly responsive to current treatments.
Luigina Micolucci +4 more
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Fire and Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study addresses the critical issue of fire safety in densely populated urban areas and focuses on the resilience of new and existing buildings, with an emphasis on passive fire protection materials for steel structures. Conventional fire codes are considered potentially restrictive, which has led to research in the field of performance ...
Virginia Venezia +7 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Despite the use of large amounts of asbestos in the 1990s, few studies have been conducted in Korea on occupational and environmental asbestos exposure and lung cancer risk.
Da-An Huh +5 more
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Reinforcement of polymeric structures with asbestos fibrils [PDF]
, 1970 Investigation determines structural potential of asbestos fibrils. Methods are developed for dispersing macrofibers of the asbestos into colloidal-sized ultimate fibrils and incorporating these fibrils in matrices without causing ...
Rader, C. A., Schwartz, A. M.
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International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.Abstract Where is the place of humanity in current corporate and insolvency frameworks and their theoretical underpinning? How can it be assured that the institutions that have been invented through human ingenuity and brilliance serves the collective human experience fully and equitably? Insolvency law has long been theoretically conceptualised on the
Jennifer L. L. Gant
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Federal Asbestos Legislation: The Winners Are ... [PDF]
, 2005 Under the guise of providing aid to victims of asbestos-related illnesses, a small group of companies has lobbied for and won relief from their liability worth tens of billions of dollars in the Senate's asbestos trust fund bill, according to this Public
Chris Schmitt, Frank Clemente
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Government laboratory worker with lung cancer: comparing risks from beryllium, asbestos, and tobacco smoke. [PDF]
, 2000 Occupational medicine physicians are frequently asked to establish cancer causation in patients with both workplace and non-workplace exposures. This is especially difficult in cases involving beryllium for which the data on human carcinogenicity are ...
Balmes, JR, Steinmaus, C
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