BACKGROUND The nail gun is a commonly utilized tool in carpentry and construction. When used properly with appropriate safety precautions, it can facilitate production and boost efficiency; however, this powerful tool also has the potential to cause serious injury. The most common site of nail-gun injuries in both industrial and nonoccupational settings is the hand. MATERIALS AND METHODS We r...

Wood dust exposed during furniture manufacturing processes causes a variety of health problems. The aim this study is to determine the respirable and inhalable exposure employees in small-scale workshops located Ağrı Organised Industrial Zone. For purpose, amount working environment was measured results were compared with limit values national international legislation. Five carpentry Zone empl...

The environmental challenges in the context of climate change require design a sustainable organic agriculture. To achieve such challenge, use fertilizers is highly recommended. Among these fertilizers, compost paramount importance as it widely recommended and used agricultural world. However, quality depends on matter used. search for several sources necessary order to offer choices producers,...

A comprehensive understanding of how resources are utilized is required to support a circular bioeconomy. This article presents the first systematic assessment forest biomass flows and stocks in Portugal analyzes circularity resource efficiency through set indicators, while providing recommendations for their use improvement different contexts. Material Flow Analysis was developed 2015, includi...

Traumatic workplace-related injuries (WRIs) carry a substantial negative impact on the public health worldwide. We aimed to study the incidence and outcomes of WRIs in Qatar. We conducted occupational injury surveillance for all WRI patients between 2010 and 2012. A total of 5152 patients were admitted to the level 1 trauma unit in Qatar, of which 1496 (29%) sustained WRI with a mean age of 34....

OBJECTIVES To estimate proportions of injuries that are attributable to the work environment (excess fractions) among economically active men and to identify industries associated with an elevated injury risk. METHODS A follow-up study was conducted among all economically active men in Denmark aged 20-59 yr 1 January 1999 (N=1,315,772) for first hospital contacts in the period 1999-2003 due t...

We report how a four-group risk communication intervention targeted to individuals in the carpentry trade affected their perceived causes (i.e., attributions) for increased colorectal cancer (CRC) risk. The intervention varied the amount of information presented on CRC risk factors and whether participants received tailored feedback on their risk factors. In baseline and 3-month follow-up telep...

The European Neolithization ~6000-4000 BC represents a pivotal change in human history when farming spread and the mobile style of life of the hunter-foragers was superseded by the agrarian culture. Permanent settlement structures and agricultural production systems required fundamental innovations in technology, subsistence, and resource utilization. Motivation, course, and timing of this tran...

In its present incarnation, OSCAR is a fully implemented programmable architecture for a rational agent. This architecture is described in detail in a forthcoming book entitled Cognitive Carpentry. It is an important characteristic of OSCAR that most practical reasoning is reduced to epistemic reasoning, through a process I call "doxastification’. In particular, most (but not quite all) of the ...