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Environmental Health, 2022 Background The Italian mesothelioma registry (ReNaM) estimates mesothelioma incidence and addresses its etiology by assessing cases’ exposures but cannot provide relative risk estimates.
Enrica Migliore +13 more
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Biological Risk and Occupational Health
Industrial Health, 2012 Many work activities include hazards to workers, and among these biological risk is particularly important, mostly because of different types of exposure, contact with highly dangerous agents, lack of limit values able to compare all exposures, presence of workers with defective immune systems and therefore more susceptible to the risk. Bioaerosols and
CORRAO, Carmela Romana Natalina +3 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2014 More than 400 serotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) have been implicated in outbreaks and sporadic human diseases. In recent years STEC strains belonging to serogroup O178 have been commonly isolated from cattle and food of bovine ...
Angelika eMiko +5 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Background This study aimed to investigate the association between exposure to diverse indoor microbial aerosols and lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) among children aged 1 to 59 months in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Adekunle Gregory Fakunle +3 more
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Safety and Health at Work, 2016 Background: This study examined the relationship between interhandle distances and upper limb exertion during simply pushing and pulling of a cart with four swivel wheels, defined by a roll box pallet (RBP) in a Japanese industrial standard. Methods: Six
Akihiro Ohnishi +2 more
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Toxins, 2016 Amatoxins and phallotoxins are toxic cyclopeptides found in the genus Amanita and are among the predominant causes of fatal food poisoning in China.
Shuo Zhang +7 more
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Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, 2023 Background: Health risk assessment based on epidemiological data for perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are evidenced. Whereas information about health-based guidance values (HBGVs) and health risk for Chinese population ...
Yun-Ting Zhang +13 more
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Liquidity, Risk, and Occupational Choices [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 We explore which financial constraints matter the most in the choice of becoming an entrepreneur. We consider a randomly assigned welfare program in rural Mexico and show that cash transfers signi cantly increase entry into entrepreneurship. We then exploit the cross-household variation in the timing of these transfers and find that current ...
Bianchi, Milo, Bobba, Matteo
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Non-chemical Risk Assessment for Lifting and Low Back Pain Based on Bayesian Threshold Models
Safety and Health at Work, 2017 Background: Self-reported low back pain (LBP) has been evaluated in relation to material handling lifting tasks, but little research has focused on relating quantifiable stressors to LBP at the individual level.
Sudha P. Pandalai +2 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021 Background Although several studies have focused on the associations between particle size and constituents and blood pressure, results have been inconsistent.
Peng‐Yue Guo +12 more
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