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Work Category Affects the Exposure to Allergens and Endotoxins in an Animal Facility Laboratory in Italy: A Personal Air Monitoring Study

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Scientists and technicians who work in contact with laboratory animals are exposed to complex biological mixtures from animals, bedding and feed. The main objective of this study was to characterize the exposures to endotoxins and animal allergens in a ...
Simona Di Renzi   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Much Does My Work Affect My Health? The Relationships between Working Conditions and Health in an Italian Survey

open access: yesSafety and Health at Work, 2021
Backround: Working condition surveys are widely recognized as useful tools for monitoring the quality of working life and the improvements introduced by health and safety policy frameworks at the European and national level.
Matteo Ronchetti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using Bayesian Model Averaging to Analyse Hierarchical Health Data: model implementation and application to linked health service use data

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Objective The majority of standard coding systems applied to health data are hierarchical: they start with several major categories and then each category is broken into subcategories across multiple levels.
Behrooz Hassani-Mahmooei   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Korean Translation and Psychometric Properties of Self-Report Instrument for Mobility Measuring for Adults With Lower Limb Amputation [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Rehabilitation Medicine
Objective To assess mobility in prosthetic limb users, the Prosthetic Limb Users Survey of Mobility (PLUS-M) was developed as a brief item bank. The PLUS-M exhibits good reliability and has been translated into more than 15 languages; however, a Korean ...
Jin Hong Kim, Sohye Jo, Gangpyo Lee
doaj   +1 more source

Exposure Assessment Suggests Exposure to Lung Cancer Carcinogens in a Painter Working in an Automobile Bumper Shop

open access: yesSafety and Health at Work, 2013
A 46-year-old man who had worked as a bumper spray painter in an automobile body shop for 15 years developed lung cancer. The patient was a nonsmoker with no family history of lung cancer.
Boowook Kim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The New Italian Standard on the Life Assessment of Martensitic Steels—First Results of the Experimental Validation Activity of XRD by Testing P91 and P92 Samples from Interrupted Uniaxial Creep Tests

open access: yesMicro, 2023
The Italian Thermotechnical Committee is drafting a new standard for the life assessment of creep-operated pressure equipment, including modern steam boilers.
Andrea Tonti, Pietro De Blasi
doaj   +1 more source

Forecasting the Dialysis Burden in Japan: Validation‐Based Projections of Prevalence and Incidence Through 2050

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

MicroRNA expression is associated with auditory dysfunction in workers exposed to ototoxic solvents and noise

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
This study is part of a project on early hearing dysfunction induced by combined exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and noise in occupational settings.
Renata Sisto   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A geospatial time-aware web interface to deliver information about air pollution and exposure in a big city and its surroundings [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014
A GIS-based web-mapping system is presented, aimed at providing specialists, stakeholders and population with a simple, while scientifically rigorous, way to obtain information about people exposure to air pollution in the city of Rome (Italy).
M. P. Bogliolo, G. Contino
doaj   +1 more source

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