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...

A future development site of a housing estate, an abandoned-brick yard with clayey slopes was studied in details to assess slope stability and to calculate the factor of safety. The Oligocene clay, the former raw material, is divided into two different geotechnical units in the clay pit. The lower one consists of grey impermeable clays while the upper unit is characterised by yellowish weathere...

We consider an urban fiber-optic microcellular system in which a cigar-shaped cell consists of several microzones with their own antenna sites connected to a central station through optical fibers. To increase the efficiency of radio resources and reduce unnecessary handoffs between microzones, we propose a movable safety zone scheme. A safety zone is a virtually guarded area that does not perm...

Proper traffic control is critical in highway work zone safety. Traffic control devices such as signs, barricades, cones, and safety barrels are used. Automated safety devices could improve work zone design and housekeeping and therefore increase safety. This thesis presents a mobile safety barrel robot. The robotic safety barrels can self-deploy and self-retrieve — removing workers from this d...

The preceding critical points have motivated a lot of interest in developing applications with DSRC technology to improve safety and mobility of traffic on U.S. highways (3–11). Recently, a remote collision avoidance system using DSRC-based V2V communication was verified (8). Similarly, a DSRC-based secure communication protocol for a vehicle ad hoc network has been proposed by exchanging warni...

background: factor vii concentrates are used in patients with congenital or acquired factor vii deficiency or treatment of hemophilia patients with inhibitors. in this research, immunoaffinity chromatography was used to purify factor vii from prothrombin complex (prothrombin-proconvertin-stuart factor-antihemophilic factor b or ppsb) which contains coagulation factors ii, vii, ix and x. the aim...

Limit-equilibrium method (LEM) and finite element method (FEM) with strength reduction method (SRM) techniques are the most widely used analysis tools in slope stability assessment. Recently, researchers have reported that both factor of safety (FOS) values and failure surfaces obtained from LEM and FEM are generally in good agreement, except in some particular cases. In this paper, the FOS and...