The incidence of alcoholism and the incidence of other neuropsychiatric diagnoses were compared between the 767 house painters and the 1212 house carpenters, born in 1925 or later, who were members of the Stockholm branches of their respective trade unions in 1965 and who had been members for at least 10 years before 1970. Four different outcome registers were used: (1) the alcohol crime regist...

To assess the potential respiratory effects of exposure to paint products, the pulmonary function of 118 construction painters was compared to construction workers unexposed to paints (314 sheet metal workers). When compared to sheet metal workers, painters reported significant excess symptoms of cough (p less than 0.05), wheezing (p less than 0.001), and dyspnea (p less than 0.0001). Nonsmokin...

OBJECTIVES To study mortality patterns in the largest existing cohort of painters. METHODS 15 years of follow up were added to a study of 42,170 painters and 14,316 non-painters based on union records. There were 23,458 deaths, compared with 5313 in the earlier follow up. RESULTS Comparisons with the United States population showed significantly increased rates in painters for lung cancer (...

Human vision is extremely sensitive to equidistance of spatial intervals in the frontal plane. Thresholds for spatial equidistance have been extensively measured in bisecting tasks. Despite the vast number of studies, the informational basis for equidistance perception is unknown. There are three possible sources of information for spatial equidistance in pictures, namely, distances in the pict...

the paintings of the illustrated shahnama manuscripts can pave the way to reach at the approach of the addressees of shahnama during all the times. shahnama is the book which has been a focus of much concentration and attention by the painters but this type of pictography has been exposed to variations concerning atmospheric conditions. so if raises the question here about the type of the impac...

The 1916 painters and the 1948 electricians who resided in the Canton of Geneva at the time of the 1970 census were identified and followed up to 1984. During the study period 121 disability pensions were awarded to painters and 59 to electricians. Age standardised incidence of disability per 1000 man-years at risk was higher among painters than among electricians for all neuropsychiatric cause...