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Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper we distinguish between three channels that determine attitudes to further immigration: labour market concerns, welfare concerns, and racial or cultural concerns. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey. A unique feature
Christian Dustmann, Christian Dustmann, David Card, Edward Glaeser, Ian P. Preston, Ian P. Preston, Timothy Hatton   +6 more
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Serum dioxin levels in former New Zealand sawmill workers twenty years after exposure to pentachlorophenol (PCP) ceased.

, 2008
From the 1950s to the late 1980s pentachlorophenol (PCP) based anti-sapstain fungicides were widely used in the New Zealand timber industry. Workers involved in treatment, or those handling freshly treated timber, experienced significant PCP exposure ...
't Mannetje, Andrea, Cheng, Soo, Dryson, Evan, Eng, Amanda, Gray, Michelle, Harawira, Joe, McLean, David, Pearce, Neil, Shoemack, Phil, Smith, Allan, Walls, Chris, Wong, Khoon Ching   +11 more
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Workplace secondhand smoke exposure in the U.S. trucking industry. [PDF]

, 2010
BackgroundAlthough the smoking rate in the United States is declining because of an increase of smoke-free laws, among blue-collar workers it remains higher than that among many other occupational groups.ObjectivesWe evaluated the factors influencing ...
Chiu, Yueh-Hsiu, Dockery, Douglas W, Garshick, Eric, Hammond, S Katharine, Hart, Jaime E, Laden, Francine, Smith, Thomas J, Spiegelman, Donna   +7 more
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881 Asbestos in the french navy: job-exposure matrix [PDF]

Indoor Air Quality, 2018
Introduction Asbestos exposure is a concern for the Navy. 94% of the compensated French soldiers belong to the Navy. While employment-exposure matrices exist for the civilian environment, none are available to the military. Our work aims at creating the first employment-exposure matrix in the French Navy, in order to optimise post-occupational medical
A Maille, N Paleiron, A Pegorie, F Grassin, E Rivière, M André, R Pougnet   +6 more
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Sensitization and chronic beryllium disease at a primary manufacturing facility, part 1: historical exposure reconstruction

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2012
OBJECTIVES: Previous epidemiologic studies of beryllium sensitization (BeS) and chronic beryllium disease (CBD) have reported inconsistent exposure–response relationships, likely due to exposure misclassification.
M Abbas Virji, Ji Young Park, Aleksandr B Stefaniak, Marcia L Stanton, Gregory A Day, Michael S Kent, Kathleen Kreiss, Christine R Schuler   +7 more
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Outperforming the S&P 500 Using Top-Down Asset Allocation [PDF]

, 2016
This paper investigates whether portfolio managers can outperform the S&P 500 index using top-down asset allocation, using historical returns, standard deviations, and correlations of different asset classes.
Lanier, Benjamin
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Validity and repeatability of a simple index derived from the short physical activity questionnaire used in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study [PDF]

, 2003
Original article can be found at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PHN Copyright The Authors.
Ainsworth, Day, Elia, James, Jantine Schuit, Jo Mitchell, Kirsten L Rennie, Nicholas E Day, Nicholas J Wareham, Rupert W Jakes, Susie Hennings   +10 more
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JEMINI (Job Exposure Matrix InterNatIonal) Initiative

Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 2019
International ...
Descatha, Alexis, Evanoff, Bradley A, Andersen, Johan H, Fadel, Marc, Ngabirano, Laure, Leclerc, Annette, Dale, Ann Marie, Roquelaure, Yves   +7 more
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Occupational exposures and exacerbations of asthma and COPD-A general population study.

PLoS ONE, 2020
PurposeRecent studies suggest that occupational inhalant exposures trigger exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but findings are conflicting.MethodsWe included 7,768 individuals with self-reported asthma (n = 3,215) and/or ...
Stinna Skaaby, Esben Meulengracht Flachs, Peter Lange, Vivi Schlünssen, Jacob Louis Marott, Charlotte Brauer, Børge G Nordestgaard, Steven Sadhra, Om Kurmi, Jens Peter Ellekilde Bonde   +9 more
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Gene-environment interaction effects on lung function- a genome-wide association study within the Framingham heart study [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Previous studies in occupational exposure and lung function have focused only on the main effect of occupational exposure or genetics on lung function.
Christiani, David C, Liao, Shu-Yi, Lin, Xihong   +2 more
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