With respect to the treatment of this complaint, I have little or nothing to advance: nor indeed is it to be expected we should have made much progress in the cure of a disease, which has hitherto hardly had a place, or a name in medical books... Opium taken at bed-time will prevent the attacks at night. I know one who set himself a task of sawing wood for half an hour every day, and was nearly...

Instituto de Tecnología de Productos Forestales, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de Recursos Naturales, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia. Chile. aguilera@ uach.cl Instituto de Acústica, Facultad de Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia. Chile. [email protected] Corresponding author: [email protected] Received: 24.05.2010. Accepted: 26.08. 2010. SOUND PRESSURE AS...

A 29-year-old healthy Thai female, working as a design and technology teacher,was referred to our clinic because of a 2-month history of recurrent hives over the forearms, face, and neck. She had not experienced symptoms in her job in the 4 years before, until a new wood material, meranti (Shorea species), was introduced to her workshop. She would develop itchy wheals minutes to hours after saw...

In rural, isolated areas, sawmills are often equipped with one or more small-capacity hand-fed band saws. Even in this situation, the productivity of saw must be viewed through factors that influence it, namely characteristics logs and optimization stages activities carried out. Therefore, time consumption, structure working recovery rate sawing into lumber provide important information for use...

Abstract Today, wire sawing of natural stone is undergoing widespread commercialization. In addition to rock extraction and processing with single wires, composed a multitude diamond-impregnated beads mounted onto steel rope, this technology increasingly used for slabbing granite blocks on multi-wire machines. Evolving sophistication equipment dictates novel tool designs formulations. For techn...