We report a case of bilateral pulmonary infiltrates and haemoptysis following low-voltage electricity exposure in an agricultural worker. A 58-year-old man standing in water reached for an electric watering machine and sustained an exposure to 220 V circuit for an uncertain duration. The electricity was turned off by another worker, and the patient was asymptomatic for the next 10 h until he de...

This paper estimates the effect of capital imports on the wages of a large, representative sample of Hungarian machine operators. Using linked employer-employee data and detailed productand firm-level import data, we match the precise occupation description of each worker to the equipment imported by their employers. We find that machine operators working on imported machines earn 16 percent mo...

A major source of oppression in industrial and post-industrial society is the restrictive and highly authoritarian nature of the workplace. One response is to democratize the workplace by increasing the participation of workers in making decisions and in choosing and evaluating managers as well as sharing in the ownership of the firm. These are not new ideas, and there are many examples of orga...

background: millions of workers are the victims of different kinds of accidents every year throughout the world. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between safety attitude and occurrence of the occupational accidents. methods: this investigation was a cross-sectional study performed in a gas refinery in south of iran in 2008. sample size of this study was 176 people....

We’ll continue our discussion of the data plane this lecture, but focus on the queueing subsystem within a router’s data plane. But first, what is the source of queues within a router’s data plane? Queues arise because multiple input ports on a router might want to send packets to the same output port. A number of scenarios can result in this type of multiple-input-single-output (also known as ...