It is well known that the occupational exposure to contaminants and carcinogens leads to the development of cancer in exposed workers. In the 18th century, Percivall Pott was the first to hypothesize that chronic exposure to dust in the London chimney sweeps was associated with an increased risk of developing cancer. Subsequently a growing body of evidence indicated that other physical factors ...

We show that the number of non-isotopic commutative semifields odd order p n p^{n} </mm...

Parameters of respirable mineral dust responsible for respiratory toxicity in humans have been investigated extensively. When the coal industry was flourishing, the major concern was with silicosis resulting from exposure to silica and silicate dusts. Epidemiological studies on asbestos workers in the 1960s brought to light the fibrogenic and carcinogenic properties of fibrous particles. Then i...

A streamlined life-cycle assessment (SLCA) is typically performed at the scale of the completed product. One could also, however, perform SLCAs on components or subsystems (moving down in scale) or on all a corporation’s products (moving up in scale). By analogy with biological ecology, it seems likely that analyses at different scales would ask different questions and reveal different insights...

To investigate the mechanisms by which slender oat (Avena barbata Pott ex Link) enhances phenanthrene biodegradation, we analyzed the impacts of root exudates and root debris on phenanthrene biodegradation and degrader community dynamics. Accelerated phenanthrene biodegradation rates occurred in soils amended with slender oat root exudates as well as combined root debris + root exudate as compa...

Les formes latentes de tuberculose chez la femme enceinte sont associées à un risque élevé de passage à une forme active qui augmente le risque de transmission de la mère infectée à l'enfant dans les 3 premières semaines de vie. Nous rapportons un cas de Gibbosité vertébrale congénitale évoquant un mal de Pott chez un nourrisson de mère tuberculeuse, observé à Lubumbashi, en République Démocrat...