Procurement and Assignment—The Industrial Hygiene Problem

Industrial Hygiene and Medicine

A text-book on this subject has been long overdue and the authors are to be congratulated on the production of such an interesting and readable volume which contains much important work hitherto accessible to the student only in scattered writings. The book includes admirable descriptions of modern industrial processes, viz., mining, iron and steel working, textile industries, potteries and gla...

[A new problem in industrial hygiene; glucinium or beryllium poisoning].

Industrial Procurement Auctions

As illustrated in the previous chapters, combinatorial auctions have successfully been applied to various application domains, such as the allocation of airspace system resources (Chapter 20), truckload transportation (Chapter 21) and bus routes (Chapter 22). Industrial procurement is potentially a huge application domain for combinatorial auctions, and it has turned into a topic of interest fo...

Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene

Occupational Health Research at NIOSH The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the U.S. federal agency that conducts research and makes recommendations for preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths.1 The work by NIOSH protects the safety and health of the nation’s 155 million workers.2 NIOSH provides the only dedicated federal investment for research ne...

Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene