To document more fully the applicability of the air monitoring data used in the site profile, NIOSH will add a section to the profile to address the quality, reliability and applicability of the early Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) air sampling program to the estimation of worker doses. Further, NIOSH will discuss how these measurements were consistent with the recommendations provided in ICRP ...

Thermal–optical analysis (TOA) is a widely used technique that fractionates carbonaceous aerosol particles into organic and elemental carbon (OC and EC), or carbonate. Thermal sub-fractions of evolved OC and EC are also used for source identification and apportionment; thus, oven temperature accuracy during TOA analysis is essential. Evidence now indicates that the “actual” sample (filter) temp...

The purpose of the present study was to design and assess the efficiency of a local exhaust ventilation system used in a foundry operation to control inhalable dust and particles, microcrystal particles, and noxious gases and vapours affecting workers during the foundry process. It was designed based on recommendations from the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygiene. After desig...

Lifting modules and their various generalizations as some main concepts in module theory have been studied and investigated extensively in recent decades. Some authors tried to present some homological aspects of lifting modules and -supplemented modules. In this work, we shall present a homological approach to -supplemented modules via fully invariant submodules. Lifting modules and H-suppleme...

Ten young male participants were recruited to test their maximum symmetric and asymmetric isoinertial lifting capabilities from floor to the knuckle height in different container dimensions varied in both width and length. The results showed that the order from the highest to lowest lifting capability for the lifting modes was symmetric lifting, asymmetric lifting with leg rotation and asymmetr...

OBJECTIVES A utility-scale wind turbine blade manufacturing plant requested assistance from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in controlling worker exposures to styrene at a plant that produced 37 and 42 m long fiber-reinforced wind turbine blades. The plant requested NIOSH assistance because previous air sampling conducted by the company indicated concerns about...

We investigate lifting i e the process of taking a valid inequality for a polyhe dron and extending it to a valid inequality in a higher dimensional space Lifting is usually applied sequentially that is variables in a set are lifted one after the other This may be computationally unattractive since it involves the solution of an optimization problem to compute a lifting coe cient for each varia...