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Trends in Hearing, 2019 High levels of occupational noise exposure increase the risk of hearing difficulties and tinnitus. However, differences in demographic, health, and lifestyle factors could also contribute to high levels of hearing difficulties and tinnitus in some ...
Samuel Couth +4 more
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Evaluation of Noise Exposure From Equipment and Ventilation in a Clinical Laboratory [PDF]
An employer representative from a state government laboratory requested a health hazard evaluation concerning employee noise exposure. The noise came from instruments and equipment in the newborn screening and microbiology laboratories and from the ...
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Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Affirmative Action in Local Elite Colleges and Subject Choice
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Women are largely underrepresented in STEM careers associated with higher labor market returns. This gender gap is even more stark in a context where societal biases are prevalent and female role models are lacking. This paper investigates the impact of an affirmative action (AA) policy implemented in an elite educational institution in India ...
Ritika Gupta
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بهداشت کار و ارتقای سلامت, 2019 Introduction: Noise is considered as a risk factor for a wide range of industrial environments, including construction industry. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between job stress due to noise exposure with sleep disturbance ...
Ehsan Asivandzadeh +4 more
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An Assessment of the Effects of Increased Regulatory Enforcement on Occupational Hearing Loss Workers' Compensation gon 1984-1998 [PDF]
Hearing loss from occupational exposures has been found to be a common and serious problem affecting workers. This paper examines the effect that increasing legislative enforcement of existing regulations has on improving worker safety.
Irwin B. Horwitz, Brian McCall
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Evaluation of systems for measuring employee exposure to ultrasonic sound at Company XYZ [PDF]
, 2008 Includes bibliographical ...
Knaup, Kaprice J.
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Income Mobility, Automation, and Occupational Licensing
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Technological change has long been tied with distributional concerns due to displacement against certain skills on labor markets. Short‐run dislocations could create scarring in the long run. For example, shifts against less skilled workers with children could limit their ability to improve the inter‐generational income mobility of their ...
Vincent Geloso +2 more
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ASSESSMENT OF HEARING LOSS RISK DUE TO OCCUPATIONAL AND NON-OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO NOISE
Research in Education and RehabilitationLoud noise in the workplace is a common occurrence in the labor market. Prolonged exposure to excessive noise can lead to hearing loss and the development of occupational disease.
Ozren Jović +2 more
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Zhiye weisheng yu yingji jiuyuanObjective To assess the relationship among occupational noise exposure, hematological inflammation markers, and blood pressure of noise-exposed workers.
QIN Huilin
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Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study evaluated the water quality of artesian wells and effluents generated in cassava processing in a rural area of Bragança, Pará, with emphasis on physicochemical parameters, multielement composition, and cyanogenic compounds. The well water presented specific nonconformities, highlighting pH values below the recommended level and high
Alana Coêlho Maciel +13 more
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