We describe a 47-year-old patient with chronic anaemia with basophilic stippling of erythrocytes, recurrent abdominal colics, discoloration of gums, sensitive polyneuropathy to the four limbs, hyperuricaemia, hepatosteatosis with raised transaminases, and a long ignored history of lead exposure in a battery recycling plant. The diagnosis of poisoning was confirmed by high lead levels in the blo...

Human life became more intensive in the ХIХ and ХХ centuries due to the development of mining, metallurgy, automobile industry, city and housing construction, military manufacturing, and construction of powerful electric stations. Despite that such a development has made the human life on the planet more comfortable, the contemporary production spheres have caused several technogenic disasters ...

B. Gajdzik, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland Before metallurgical enterprises started implementation of marketing activities they had to go through restructuring processes which included all areas of their market activities. Privatised metallurgical enterprises after economic transformation gradually implemented marketing to th...

A probabilistic approach has been developed to extract recurrent serious Occupational Accident with Movement Disturbance (OAMD) scenarios from narrative texts within a prevention framework. Relevant data extracted from 143 accounts was initially coded as logical combinations of generic accident factors. A Bayesian Network (BN)-based model was then built for OAMDs using these data and expert kno...

V. A. Andreyachshenko Faculty of Nanotechnology and Metallurgy, Karaganda state technical University, Karaganda In the paper there is studied stressed-and-strained state formed in a billet by fullering in a tool with movable elements. It is determined that compressing stresses prevail in the studied tool; they improve the quality of the processed billets. Even maximum main normal stresses have ...

B. Gajdzik, A. Wyciślik, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland The publication characterises the quantity and quality methods applied in the assessment of the environmental aspects. The method of cumulated environmental loads is particularly interesting, where the network of process connections within an enterprise and between it an...