STUDY OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine whether the high mortality in lower salaried men in Norway was related to an inflow into this group of unskilled workers with high mortality. DESIGN Individual information on occupation was derived from the 1970 and the 1980 censuses and linked to mortality data for the period 1980-5 by the official, individual identification numbers. PARTICIPANTS...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate mortality due to lung cancer, silicosis, renal cancer, renal disease and other causes among German porcelain production workers potentially exposed to crystalline silica. METHODS Seventeen thousand six hundred forty-four medical surveillance participants (1985-1987) were followed through 2005 for mortality. Cause-specific Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR) and 95% conf...

Digital data is projected to double every two years creating the need for cost effective and performant storage media [4]. Hard disk drives (HDDs) are a cost effective storage media that sit between speedy yet costly flashbased storage, and cheap but slower media such as tape drives. However, virtually all HDDs today use a technology called perpendicular magnetic recording, and the density achi...

This paper describes the main objectives, technical content, and status of H2020 project entitled “High-performance advanced methods experimental investigations for safety evaluation generic Small Modular Reactors (McSAFER)”. The pillars this are combination safety-relevant thermal hydraulic experiments numerical simulations different approaches evaluations light water-cooled (SMR). It goals, c...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated mortality among workers at a talc mining and milling facility. METHODS Subjects were white men actively employed between 1948 and 1989 and known to have been alive in or after 1950. Analyses assessed cancer mortality during the period 1950-89 (809 subjects) and non-cancer mortality during 1960-89 (782 subjects). RESULTS Comparisons with regional general popul...

The Smr family of multidrug transporters consists of small membrane proteins that extrude various drugs in exchange with protons rendering cells resistant to these drugs. Smr proteins identified to date have been found only in Eubacteria. In this work we present the cloning and characterization of an Smr protein from the archaeon Halobacterium salinarum, the first Smr in the archaeal kingdom. T...

While working underground, miners are exposed to a number of risk factors that have a negative impact on their health and may be a cause of an increased mortality in miners. The aim of the study was to compare total and specific mortality in black coal miners with acknowledged coal-workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) and without CWP, and the mortality of the general male population in the Czech Repub...

Modulation of sensorimotor rhythms (SMR) was suggested as a control signal for brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Yet, there is a population of users estimated between 10 to 50% not able to achieve reliable control and only about 20% of users achieve high (80-100%) performance. Predicting performance prior to BCI use would facilitate selection of the most feasible system for an individual, thus c...

OBJECTIVES The ratio of observed to expected mortality (standardized mortality ratio, SMR), is a key indicator of quality of care. We use PreControl Charts to investigate SMR behavior over time of an existing tree-model for predicting mortality in intensive care units (ICUs) and its implications for hospital ranking. We compare the results to those of a logistic regression model. METHODS We c...

5 The utility of static and adaptive mesh refinement (SMR and AMR, respectively) are ex6 amined for idealized tropical cyclone (TC) simulations in a spectral element f -plane shallow 7 water model. The SMR simulations have varying sizes of the statically refined meshes 8 (geometry-based) while the AMR simulations use a potential vorticity (PV) threshold to 9 adaptively refine the mesh to the ev...