purpose: to report the outcomes of manual lamellar keratoplasty (lkp) in patients with delayed-onset mustard gas keratitis (mgk) and compare visual outcomes between subgroups with simultaneous or sequential klal and lkp. methods: in this retrospective, interventional study, 52 eyes of 37 male survivors of chemical warfare with mgk who underwent lkp were included. the results were evaluated with...

background: the nature of work in the construction industry is closely associated with many human factor hazards. manual construction workers are exposed to hand-arm vibration, repetitive movements, holding of heavy loads and tools, and frequent manual materials handling hazards in their daily tasks. work related musculoskeletal disorders are major problems faced by construction workers, which ...

Automation in various forms constitutes the backbone of most major industries. An increase in production volume, product variety and manufacturing process complexity necessitates automation to ensure consistency and profitable production. Automated material handling becomes a crucial aspect of factory automation because it frees up manual labor, streamlines the flow of material, allows for comp...

2 Manufacturing companies have historically had an on-off relation with technology. Most have aggressively adopted traditional technologies such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). However, they have been slow in adopting recent digital technologies such as big data analytics, real-time order confirmation, Web-EDI among others. Moreover, most have adopted technologies to varying extent creat...

Prior research has shown the load moment exposure to be one of the strongest predictors of low back disorder risk in manufacturing jobs. However, to extend these finding to the manual lifting and handling of materials in distribution centers, where the layout of the lifting task changes from one lift to the next and the lifts are highly dynamic, would be very challenging without an automated me...

The general objective was to investigate how maternal childhood and adulthood social class contribute to social inequalities in low birth weight, neonatal mortality and postneonatal mortality, particularly the combined influence of childhood and adult class and a comparison of influence on outcomes with regard to time distance from birth. Analyses were performed on a large sample of Swedish bir...

This paper presents firm-level evidence on the dynamics of the relative demand for non-manual workers in Italian manufacturing during the 1990s. The analysis provides a number of interesting results. First, within-firm skill upgrading is the main determinant of the increase in the non-manual wage bill share. By contrast, demand changes associated to trade have shifted employment away from skill...

1 Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology, 137 Trafton Science Center South, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN 56001, e-mail: [email protected] Abstract The Integrated Circuit manufacturing no longer belongs to industry, but is a flourishing area in academics. The complicated process of integrated circuit fabrication requires many steps w...

Casting has various processes like Pre casting Processes, pattern making, core making, molding and mold assembly making, Casting Processes, furnace charging, melting, holding and pouring, and Post casting Processes, shakeout, inspection and dispatch etc. In India there are many foundry have followed conventional and manual operations. Today’s competitive environment has, lower manufacturing cos...