Occupational challenges in extreme environment

Grand Challenges in Extreme Microbiology

As the microbiological exploration of our home planet intensifies, we discover that an ever-growing range of extreme environments harbors novel types of microorganisms. Wherever we look, previously unknown bacteria, archaea, and protists appear into view. Scientific perceptions of the microbial world and its “extreme” fringes have changed with increasing pace and with unforeseen consequences – ...

Analysis of Occupational Health Challenges among Farmers

Background & Aims of the Study: Farmers and agricultural workers are vulnerable because of exposed to a wide range of occupational hazards and Facing with problems and obstacles in their work, so the main purpose of this study was analysis of occupational health challenges among farmers Materials & Methods: The tool of the research was a questionnaire that designed to analysis of occupation...

Microplastics Pollution in the Aquatic Environment: Problems and Challenges

Occupational asthma in maritime environment.

In the maritime environment, characterized by a great biodiversity, employees can be during their work exposed to chemical and above all biological substances. Some of them are the cause of occupational asthma. This is the case for some fished products such as crustaceans and mollusks and also for some products carried as cargo like cereals or chemicals used in the maintenance of ships. This ar...

Software Challenges in Extreme Scale Systems

Computer systems anticipated in the 2015 – 2020 timeframe are referred to as Extreme Scale because they will be built using massive multi-core processors with 100’s of cores per chip. The largest capability Extreme Scale system is expected to deliver Exascale performance of the order of 10 operations per second. These systems pose new critical challenges for software in the areas of concurrency...