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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Occupational Lung Disease"”.
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Prevalence and factors associated with acute occupational lung disease among Cotton Ginnery workers in Katete District
… ginnery workers. A survey questionnaire and lung function tests were conducted by a trained technician using a spirobank G spirometer. At the time of the study, the workers were employed in five departments and just about half n= 77 (51.1%) were involved in carding with 48.1% involved in …
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Development and Implementation of a Standard Methodology for Respirable Coal Mine Dust Characterization with Thermogravimetric Analysis
… of overexposure leading to the development occupational lung disease. Recent trends of increased incidence of occupational lung disease in miners, such as silicosis and Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis, has shown there is a need for a greater understanding of the respirable fraction of dust in …
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Applications of Thermal and Laser-Based Methods for Monitoring Airborne Particulates in Coal Mines
… has been a geographic "hotspot" for the rise in occupational lung disease amongst underground coal miners, which began in 1990's after decades of steady decline. This has led researchers to propose there could be something unique about the respirable dust composition in Appalachia coal mines, …
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Development and Demonstration of a Standard Methodology for Respirable Coal Mine Dust Characterization Using SEM-EDX
… of interest due to its ability to cause occupational lung disease when miners are overexposed to airborne concentrations. A detailed standard methodology to characterize respirable mine dust is carefully investigated with the use of scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive …
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Visualising Lung Disease in Modern China: Body, Nation, and Environment from the Nanjing Decade to the Cultural Revolution
… pathologies were major causes of death and disease in twentieth-century China. This thesis analyses lung disease in public health images from the advent of national public health services in the Republic of China in the 1920s, to the official recognition of the People’s Republic of China in …
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The Association between Adult Self-reported Asthma & Potential Exposures to Asthma Triggers in Virginia Workplaces: An Ecological Study
… asthma (WRA) is thought to be the most common occupational lung disease in the U.S., but there is no standard case definition of WRA. Most states, including Virginia, do not require WRA diagnoses to be reported to health departments. At present, there is too little epidemiological data on WRA …
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Exploration of Respirable Dust Particles Sourced From Rock Strata in an Underground Coal Mine
… and dust controls led to a steady decline of occupational lung disease among US coal miners between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s. Since that time, there has been an alarming resurgence of disease especially in central Appalachia—with little hard data to pinpoint the causative factors in …