background: carpet weaving is an occupation that requires sufficient and appropriate lighting. the lighting in carpet weaving workshops affects the productivity and the physical and mental health of workers. therefore, the evaluation of the illumination and the identification of work stations requiring lighting modifications will be helpful in promotion of the health and safety of workers in ca...

A set of growth arrest-specific (gas) genes negatively regulated by serum has been identified. We report the analysis of the expression of one of them (gas-i) in transformed cells. We found a down regulation of gas-I expression in NIH 3T3 cells transfected in vitro with an activated Ha-ras oncogene. In five chemically-induced mouse tumours grown in vivo the amounts of gas-I mRNA were largely di...

3 Paragraph 4, lines 3 and 4, p. 2911: For the following sentence citing reference [60], units should be in μg/(m h); not in mg/(m h). On an area basis, caulking has the highest emission rate, 310 μg m h, among materials tested, followed by carpet pads (installed underneath carpets), 2.1 to 9.9 μg m h. Emission rates fell below 1 μg m h for other materials tested, which included solid and engin...

We consider a class of fractal subsets of Rd formed in a manner analogous to the construction of the Sierpinski carpet. We prove a uniform Harnack inequality for positive harmonic functions; study the heat equation, and obtain upper and lower bounds on the heat kernel which are, up to constants, the best possible; construct a locally isotropic diffusion X and determine its basic properties; and...

Indoor residential pesticide applications present the potential for human exposures, particularly for small children. Personal contact with target and nontarget surfaces can result in transfer of pesticides to the skin, but the magnitude of such transfer is uncertain. This research compared surface sampling techniques [wipe and polyurethane foam (PUF) roller] with the removal ability of human s...

The analysis of four different biodiesel blends, as well as homemade biodiesel prepared from vegetable oil, has been performed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The identification of methyl esters within the biodiesel along with any background components is made possible by recognizing their mass spectral fragmentation patterns. These fuels were subjected to typical fire scene environ...

Purpose: To determine the relationship between refractive errors and ocular components values in carpet weavers Methods: Refractive errors and ocular components values were investigated in carpet weavers at Mashhad city in Iran. After selection of samples, the individuals who had ophthalmic and systemic disease effective on the refractive errors were excluded from the study. Refractive errors a...

As part of the National Human Exposure Assessment Survey (NHEXAS) in Maryland, we collected indoor air, carpet dust, exterior soil, and duplicate diet samples from a stratified random sample of 80 individuals to evaluate aggregate daily exposure, contributions of specific pathways of exposure, and temporal variation in exposure to chlorpyrifos. We collected samples from each participant in up t...

We introduce a class of conformal versions of the previously introduced quasi-conformal carpet cloak, and show how to construct such conformal cloaks for different cloak shapes. Our method provides exact refractive-index profiles in closed mathematical form for the usual carpet cloak as well as for other shapes. By analyzing their asymptotic behavior, we find that the performance of finite-size...