Whole glove testing for a metalworking fluid (MWF) in the field was performed for the first time. Green latex gloves used in a machine shop were exposed for 20 min to MWF. The permeated amount (1.0 +/- 0.5 microg/cm(2)) was higher than the threshold (0.25 microg/cm(2)) for the ASTM F739-99a closed-loop normalized breakthrough time.

European Respiratory Society guidelines on the management of work-related asthma recommend that occupational asthma with an allergic mechanism should be diagnosed by both identifying the workplace as the cause, and confirming sensitisation to the asthmagen by specific inhalational challenge (SIC), in the absence of any available specific IgE tests [1, 2]. Used (contaminated) metalworking fluid ...

Recently, several innovative tools have found their way into mainstream use in modern development environments. However, most of these tools have focused on creating and modifying code, despite evidence that most of programmers’ time is spent understanding code as part of maintenance tasks. If new tools were designed to directly support these maintenance tasks, what types would be most helpful?...

We present a new algorithm for solving basic parametric constructible or semi-algebraic systems like C = {x ∈ C, p1(x) = 0, , ps(x) = 0, f1(x) 0, , fl(x) 0} or S = {x ∈ R, p1(x) = 0, , ps(x) = 0, f1(x)> 0, , fl(x)> 0}, where pi, fi ∈Q[U , X], U = [U1, , Ud] is the set of parameters and X = [Xd+1, , Xn] the set of unknowns. If ΠU denotes the canonical projection onto the parameter’s space, solvi...

This study aimed to test the hypothesis that impairments of temporal duration processing after frontal lobe lesions reflect deficits in executive monitoring functions rather than a domain-specific deficit in the maintenance of duration information in working memory. Patients with frontodorsal lesions, clinical controls with post-central lesions, and healthy controls performed recognition and cl...

The support vector machine (SVM) is a wellestablished and accurate supervised learning method for the classification of data in various application fields. The statistical learning task – the so-called training – can be formulated as a quadratic optimization problem. During the last years the decomposition algorithm for solving this optimization problem became the most frequently used method fo...

The paper describes an automatic document classification system called NeuroClass, developed for the Air Transportation Field of Transport Canada. NeuroClass is a working classification tool for natural language text, based on recurrent neural network technology. In laboratory tests, it outperformed prototypes developed with other neural network paradigms.