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Hazards and hazard ratios [PDF]

open access: possibleBMJ, 2012
Researchers investigated the risk of colorectal cancer after screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy. A randomised controlled study was undertaken in Norway with a population based sample. The intervention consisted of once only flexible sigmoidoscopy screening with or without a single round of faecal occult blood testing.
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THE HAZARDS OF FARMING [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of the American Medical Association, 1939
During the past quarter century the hazards of industry, transportation, mining and construction have been recognized; the economic value of safety has become clearly apparent and measures have been adopted to insure its promotion. For agriculture, because of its primarily individualistic character, there has been no such recognition or supervision ...
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The Regulation of Hazards and Hazardous Behaviors

Health Education Monographs, 1978
Risks to individuals engaged in "high risk" behaviors may be present because of the individual's own actions, as in the case of smoking. Alter natively, the risks may be present either because of factors in the envi ronment such as carcinogens, or because of the causal actions ofothers, such as pollution by industries.
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Hazards in determining whether a drug is hazardous

Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice, 2013
The US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health list and evaluation criteria have provided an important foundation to help institutions identify and create a list of hazardous formulary drugs. However, further guiding principles were needed to make the adoption feasible at our organization.
Mário L de Lemos   +2 more
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Hazard algebras

2001
An extended abstract of this paper was already published in: A. Salomaa (ed.) et al., A half-century of automata theory. Celebration and inspiration. Symposium, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, July 26, 2000. Singapore: World Scientific, 1--19 (2001; Zbl 0992.68222).
Esik, Zoltan, Brzozowski, J. A.
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Hazards

2007
This chapter reviews the different hazards that can be associated with operating vacuum deposition systems. This includes a demonstration of how to carry out a risk assessment process. Many of the risks are obvious such as the trapping hazard when a large system door is closing or during deposition where there is the use of high power for the ...
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Rockfalls and Their Hazard

2010
Rockfalls are a type of fast mass movement common in mountain areas worldwide triggered. Natural triggers of rockfalls comprise earthquakes (Harp and Wilson 1995; Marzorati et al. 2002), freeze-thaw cycles of water (Gardner 1983; Matsuoka and Sakai 1999), melting of snow (Wieczorek and Jager 1996) or permafrost (Gruber et al. 2004), temperature changes
Guzzetti F, Reichenbach P
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Hazards in Opportunity

Journal of Immigrant Health, 2002
Epidemiology studies have found that immigrants who enter the United States from Mexico have prevalence rates of mental disorder similar to residents of Mexico City. These rates are much lower than rates of mental disorder found in those of Mexican decent who were born in the United States.
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