BACKGROUND Construction industry is one of the stable growing industries in India. People working in construction industries are at a risk of various occupational diseases. Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) is the single largest cause of work-related illness, accounting for over 33% of all newly reported occupational illnesses in the general population and approximately 77% in construction workers...

Background: In brick kiln and construction industry the exposure to carbon monoxide and silica dust is the most common occupational hazard to the workers in these industries. A study on occupational health hazards of working women in these two unorganized sectors was undertaken by Lokmanya Medical Research Centre. Objectives: To study the effect of work site environment on the health of the wom...

Epoxy resins, widely used as adhesives or coatings in construction, boat and aeroplane building, plastic and other industries and trades (1–3), are a frequent cause of occupational allergic contact dermatitis (1–6). Epoxy resin based on diglycidylether of bisphenol A is the main allergen responsible but sensitization can also develop to other components, including the hardeners and reactive dil...

Financial theory suggests residual volatility should not be related to expected returns due to diversification. A robust portfolio construction process reduces volatility by investing in a large number of assets that span different geographies and industries. Firm-specific volatility largely washes out. What is left is systematic volatility related to common sources of return variation. Wes Cri...

Since the 1970s, there has been a swift and sizeable uptake of business ownership amongst women in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau 2002; Lowrey 2005). Women now own around 40 percent of all non-agricultural businesses – amounting to an increase of more than 25-fold since records began in 1972 (Center for Women’s Business Research 2008). Moreover, the fastest recent growth in women-owned f...

The purpose of this study was to establish the validity and reliability of a hydrostatic weighing method using total lung capacity (measuring vital capacity with a respirometer at the time of weighing) the prone position, and a small oblong tank. The validity of the method was established by comparing the TLC prone (tank) method against three hydrostatic weighing methods administered in a pool....

The process of integrating building information modeling (BIM) and Internet Things (IoT)-based data sources is a recent development. As generalization, BIM IoT provide complementary perspectives on the project that complement each other’s constraints. Applying concept BIM-IoT in construction industries which has been termed to have high-risk factor could offer an improvement overall performance...