Purpose: Using appropriate indicators to evaluate the efficiency of economic performance and its ability achieve basic planned goals, make optimal use productive capacities, available human resources, in order profits. Theoretical framework: The cement industry Iraq is considered one important industries for role development process, Therefore, those charge that should strive find adequate meth...

The aim of the current study is to determine effect Kirkuk cement factory dust on renal function tests among residents villages and farms surrounding those who are constantly exposed dust, which include: urea, uric acid, creatinine total serum protein for period from January 2021 April 2021. samples were randomly collected (60) different distances as group, divided according distance into six c...

About 673 small-scale asbestos mining and milling facilities and 33 large - scale asbestos manufacturing plants, (17 asbestos-cement product manufacturing plants and 16 other than asbestos-cement product plants) are situated in India. The present study reveals the exposure of commercial asbestos (chrysotile) in the occupational as well as ambient air environment of the asbestos-cement (AC) shee...

The association of malignant mesothelioma (MM) and nonoccupational asbestos exposure is currently debated. Our study investigates environmental and domestic asbestos exposure in the city where the largest Italian asbestos cement (AC) factory was located. This population-based case-control study included pleural MM (histologically diagnosed) incidents in the area in 1987-1993, matched by age and...

the objective of this study was to simulate carbon monoxide (co) dispersion exited from the stacks of a cement industry in doroud, iran by gaussian model (gm). four sampling period was conducted for the measurement of co from the factory's three-stack flow during a period of one year. the input parameters were the rate of co emission, meteorological data,  factors related to the stack, and...

A historical prospective cohort study comprised all persons employed from 1950 to 1981 for at least three years in the oldest asbestos cement factory in the world. From 2816 persons eligible for the study, record based estimates and measurements of dust and fibres and histories of smoking based on interviews were used to calculate individual exposures over time. After observation of 51,218 pers...