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Judith Anderson and Dieter Scholz
During its investigations into a series of ten aircraft crashes from 1979 to 1981, US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials were presented with a hypothesis that ?several? of the crashes could have been caused by pilot impairment from bre...
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Judith Anderson
This paper describes the relative frequency of reports of oil and hydraulic fluid fumes in the ventilation supply air (?fume events?) compared to other types of fumes and smoke reported by U.S. airlines over 10 years. The author reviewed and categorized ...
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Yue Wu, Jun-Ming Gu, Yun Huang, Yan-Ying Duan, Rui-Xue Huang and Jian-An Hu
Long-term airborne lead exposure, even below official occupational limits, has been found to cause lead poisoning at higher frequencies than expected, which suggests that China?s existing occupational exposure limits should be reexamined. A retrospective...
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Mansour Ahmed Balkhyour and Mohammad Khalid Goknil
Welding is a major industrial process used for joining metals. Occupational exposure to welding fumes is a serious occupational health problem all over the world. The degree of risk to welder?s health from fumes depends on composition, concentration, and...
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Sachini Dinusha Fernando,M.M.S.C. Karunaratne
Abstract The rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae is considered the major problem in stored rice in Sri Lanka. Due to the adverse effects of pesticide usage, research on the re-evaluation and use of many ethnobotanicals as alternative storage pest control agent...
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Mikolaj Walkowiak
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This paper concerns the estimation of indirect CO2 emissions associated with the use of electric engines in Poland. The indirect production of exhaust fumes emitted by electric cars is determined by two factors: the engine?s power consumption and the vol...
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Mikolaj Walkowiak
Pág. 55 - 61
This paper concerns the estimation of indirect CO2 emissions associated with the use of electric engines in Poland. The indirect production of exhaust fumes emitted by electric cars is determined by two factors: the engine?s power consumption and the vol...
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Amir Nematollahi Sarvestani, Pierpaolo Oreste and Sandro Gennaro
Underground fires are still one of the most significant risks in mines today. In order to manage this risk, it is necessary to know the potential evolution of a fire and the effects it can have on people and other objects. Ventilation plays an essential ...
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Hyunjin Joo and Yujin Lim
Traffic congestion is a worsening problem owing to an increase in traffic volume. Traffic congestion increases the driving time and wastes fuel, generating large amounts of fumes and accelerating environmental pollution. Therefore, traffic congestion is ...
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Parag Narkhede, Rahee Walambe, Shruti Mandaokar, Pulkit Chandel, Ketan Kotecha and George Ghinea
With the rapid industrialization and technological advancements, innovative engineering technologies which are cost effective, faster and easier to implement are essential. One such area of concern is the rising number of accidents happening due to gas l...
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Nurul Shahiera Shafie, Nabilah Zaini, Noor Shawal Nasri
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A respirator is a device designed to protect the wearer from inhaling harmful substances such as dust, fumes, vapors, and/or gases. Generally, a respirator can be grouped into two categories which are air purified respirator (APR) and air supply respirat...
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Anthony E. Archibong, Aramandla Ramesh, Mohammad S. Niaz, Cynthia M. Brooks, Shannon I. Roberson and Donald D. Lunstra
The objective of this study was to evaluate the reproductive risk associated with exposure of adult male Fisher-344 (F-344) rats to inhaled benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), a ubiquitous environmental toxicant present in cigarette smoke, automobile exhaust fumes and...
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Arup Das, Taraknath Mazumder, A.K. Gupta
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Hazardous waste management (HWM) involves transportation, storage, handling, treatment and disposal of these wastes. Transportation of the wastes is the only practice in HWM which is carried out in an unregulated offsite domain. These wastes are transpor...
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