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From danger and motherhood to health and beauty: health advice for the factory girl in early Twentieth-Century Britain [PDF]
A survey of government reports and the archives and journals of other agencies interested in industrial health in early twentieth-century Britain has led us to conclude that, in addition to apprehension about the potentially harmful impact of industrial ...
Long, Vicky, Marland, Hilary
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The opposite of Dante's hell? The transfer of ideas for social housing at international congresses in the 1850s–1860s [PDF]
With the advent of industrialization, the question of developing adequate housing for the emergent working classes became more pressing than before.
Adam T.+60 more
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Recent cyber-physical attacks, such as Stuxnet, Triton etc., have invoked an ominous realization about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure, including water, power and gas distribution systems.
Shaharyar Khan, S. Madnick
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COVID-19 pandemic has led to health crisis as well as slowdown of industrial activities throughout the world resulted in global economic loss. Safety measure of social distancing by workers at workplaces to prevent spread of corona virus leads to huge ...
Praveen Dubey+5 more
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Most industrial buildings have a very short lifespan due to frequently changing production processes. The load-bearing structure severely limits the flexibility of industrial buildings and is a major contributor to their costs, carbon footprint and waste.
J. Reisinger+3 more
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Mechanomorphosis: Science, Management, and “Human Machinery” in Industrial Canada, 1900–45 [PDF]
By the early 20th century, the changes taking place in western industrial capitalist nations prompted an adaptive shift in the socioeconomic delineation of human bodies, and in scientific theories about how they worked and how they could be put to work ...
Comacchio, Cynthia
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OBJECTIVES: Benzene is a natural constituent of crude oil and natural gas (0.1–3.0% by volume). Materials that are refined from crude oil and natural gas contain some residual benzene.
Thomas E Widner+9 more
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History of “health risk” and its place in the development of preventive medicine
The main stages of the introduction and development of preventive medicine and the term HEALTH RISK are described. The “risk” definition is related to the works by Max Fasmer and Frank Knight. The development of preventive medicine was also influenced by
Е.Е. Shigan
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Background Aim: Implementing guidelines in the practice of occupational health is a high-priority need, since their use can reduce the variability in practice and increase professional efficiency, resulting in higher quality of health care services.
Evangelia Nena+4 more
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Industrial Hygiene and Medicine
A text-book on this subject has been long overdue and the authors are to be congratulated on the production of such an interesting and readable volume which contains much important work hitherto accessible to the student only in scattered writings.
E. Hope, W. W. Hanna, C. Stallybrass
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