The aim of this study is to assess the number of workers potentially at risk of bladder cancer in Italy. A detailed list of codes of economic activities entailing bladder cancer risk was developed on the basis of the excess risk resulting from two different pooled analysis (separately for men and women) in Europe. Firms and the number of blue-collars potentially at risk were selected from the I...

In this paper, we obtain analogues of Jørgensen’s inequality for non-elementary groups of isometries of quaternionic hyperbolic n-space generated by two elements, one of which is loxodromic. Our result gives some improvement over earlier results of Kim [10] and Markham [15]. These results also apply to complex hyperbolic space and give improvements on results of Jiang, Kamiya and Parker [7]. As...

A review of the literature was conducted to find publications relating to neck collars / rolls and prevention of sports injury, particularly burners and other cervical spine injuries, as well as in preventing excessive motion of the cervical spine. MEDLINE (1970-2005), Cinahl (1982-2005), Alt Health Watch (1990-2005), AMED (1995-2005), and the Index to Chiropractic Literature (1985-2005) databa...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a zoonosis found worldwide. Its incidence has increased in Brazil in recent years, representing a serious public and animal health problem. The strategies applied in Brazil are questionable and are not sufficient to control the disease. Thus, we have compared the efficacy of some of the currently available strategies focused on dogs to prevent and control zoonotic...

HUA LI. Countermeasures against Scour at Bridge Abutments (Under the direction of Dr. BRIAN D. BARKDOLL) Scour at bridge abutments can cause damage or failure of bridges and result in excessive repairs, loss of accessibility, or even death. To mitigate abutment scour, both clear-water and live-bed laboratory experiments in a compound channel were performed using parallel walls and spur dikes as...

We present a new meshing algorithm to mesh an arbitrary piecewise-linear complex in three dimensions. The algorithm achieves an O(n log ∆ + m) runtime where n, m, and ∆ are the input size, the output size, and spread respectively. This runtime represents the first non-trivial runtime guarantee for this class of input. The new algorithm extends prior work on runtime-efficient meshing by allowing...

The problem statement and boundary conditions for calculation of axial thermoelastic stresses in backups with collars the unit combined continuous casting deformation are provided production three steel billets. scheme calculations determination known temperature field was stated using ANSYS software. results shaped dies were performed four sections a backup collars. In each section, given typi...

In their commentary, Sargisson and McLean (2021) object to our conclusion that the use of e-collars are unnecessary in dog training (China et al 2020). Their criticisms make 4 broad claims: firstly approaches were not most effective means with e-collars; secondly paper focussed on measures efficacy did present data welfare; thirdly study include long term efficacy; fourthly statistical appropri...