ABSTRACT Crystalline quartz, the most common crystalline silica polymorph, is widely found in industrial products. It is of high regulatory relevance, because its fine fraction, a form of respirable crystalline silica, is classified as an occupational carcinogen, with product‐content thresholds (e.g., 0.1% (w/w) in the European Union) and stringent ...
Giacomo Siviero +3 more
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Associations of Occupational Noise Exposure with Hearing-Related Functional Difficulty and Menstrual Abnormalities Among Female Workers - Selected Regions, China, 2024-2025. [PDF]
Zhou P +5 more
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Abstract Efficiency is a pervasive yet insufficiently challenged managerial principle and an integral part of business school academia. However, while there is compelling evidence that efficiency gains can have severe undesirable social and ecological consequences that reduce overall welfare both in terms of well‐being and natural resources, business ...
Stephan M. Schaefer, Christopher Wickert
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Differences in hepatocyte-related indicators within occupational hazardous factor exposure between genders. [PDF]
Wen K +6 more
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Abstract The role of business schools in exacerbating social and environmental issues has become increasingly apparent. However, substantive change is often stymied at both individual and institutional levels by a ubiquitous pressure on faculty members to conform to a specific embodiment of the ‘successful academic’.
Simon Oldham, Helen Wadham
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Propensity Score Matching Analysis on Interaction Between Noise Exposure and Gestational Hypertension for Preterm Birth Among Female Workers - 4 PLADs, China, 2024-2025. [PDF]
Li A +9 more
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti +2 more
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The overlooked burden: associations between high-noise environments and scrub nurse wellbeing and performance. [PDF]
Ma Y, Ni T, Pang L, Luo Y.
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ABSTRACT Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care ...
Steven Roberts +3 more
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Risks and Awareness of NIHL Among Dental Students: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Ntlhakana L, Molete MM.
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