Jayjock and Lewis’ study “Implication of Hormesisfor Industrial Hygiene” represents a challenge for thescientific community to consider hormesis as a possibleworking hypothesis for redefining risk assessmentstrategy for low-dose exposures in the realm of IndustrialHygiene. This invited commentary aims at examiningsome aspects of the study for which no proven andconcl...

1 Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London, United Kingdom. 2 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. 3 National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands. 4 School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene,...

In response to a recent court decision, the Annals of Occupational Hygiene is reviewing our procedures to ensure transparency in authorship and direct and indirect conflicts of interest. These improvements are intended to help protect the integrity of the science presented in the journal.

1 Institute of Preventive Medicine Environmental and Occupational Health, Athens, Greece 2 Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece 3 Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece 4 Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 5 Department of P...

We report here 2 cases of occupational contact dermatitis aggrevated by contact allergy to sodium cocoamphopropionate, a surfactant present in the disinfectant soap used at the workplace. The patients worked in fast-food restaurants of multinational chains, where hygiene routines require very frequent hand washing. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first cases of contact allergy to so...

Department of Physics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan, R.O.C. Graduate Institute of Science Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan, R.O.C. Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, R.O.C. Department of Occupational Safety and Hygiene, Tajen University, Pingtung 907, Taiwan, R.O.C. (Received Novembe...

Tests are described comparing the sensitivity of the Erickson dipole feeds with the new strut-straddling Modified J-Pole (MJP) feeds using the new VLA Lowband receivers in the 54-86 MHz window. These tests show that the sensitivity of the MJP feeds for the “B” mounting position is comparable to the Erickson dipoles. For the “C” mounting position the MJP sensitivity is a factor of two worse than...