Wood and Woodworking in Late Ottoman Damascus:

Occupational exposure to wood dust in the british woodworking industry in 1999/2000.

Exposure to inhalable wood dust and compliance with the British Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 1999 were assessed at a representative cross-section of the British woodworking industry. Median exposures ranged from 1.5 to 2.8 mg/m(3) across the selected industry groups, the lowest being in sawmilling and planing of wood. Overall, 27% of values exceeded the maximum ...

Cheating Death in Damascus

Evidential and Causal Decision Theory are the leading contenders as theories of rational action, but both face fatal counterexamples. We present some new counterexamples, including one in which the optimal action is causally dominated. We also present a novel decision theory, Functional Decision Theory (fdt), which simultaneously solves both sets of counterexamples. Instead of considering which...

S Auder Woodworking Company: a Waste Wood Electric Gener Ating Facility

The author has presented an excellent paper describing considerations that went into the development and imple­ mentation of the subject facility. The use of some pho­ tographs in the paper was particularly helpful. The photo on p. 240 shows open structural members around the bottom of the key air pollution control elements. For very little additional capital cost, these areas can be en­ closed...

Dust Creation in Cnc Woodworking

From Plurality to Unity: Codification and Jurisprudence in the Late Ottoman Empire