Exposure to organic solvent vapors was investigated in 40 unit workplaces (with 189 workers) in 16 small-scale industries in north-east Japan (Tohoku District) in which synthetic urushi lacquer was applied to produce non-metal tableware (e.g. soup bowls, rice bowls), flower vases, home altars, etc. Two furniture factories were also studied. The equipment used was carbon felt dosimeters and a po...

background: in addition to the various human environmental issues, environmental hazards due to the industrial waste mismanagement are one of the country's major problems. this especially is more important in the provinces such as bakhtiari province where there have been concentration and diversity of the natural resources and a rapid growth of technology and industry in the recent years. metho...

The goal of this study was to assess the usage frequency, user satisfaction, and quality of literature searchers for a multi-application computer workstation in a university-based general medicine clinic. A computer with medical literature searching, textbook searching, and a decision-support program was deployed in the workroom of the clinic and made available for routine use. Data were collec...

Identifying the most relevant environment related indicators and how to make them available to decision-makers are current issues. Some seek to enhance their efficiency by means of methods such as aggregations or weighting. More fundamentally, in this chapter we question how industrial ecologists appropriate the notion of environment. On the basis of multidisciplinary research, we argue that, i...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Pekka Alahuhta Name of the doctoral dissertation Shared Artefacts and Virtual Worlds in Computer-Mediated Creative Collaboration Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 51/2015 Field of research Leadership, organizati...

Industrial symbiosis (IS) is a subdiscipline of Industrial Ecology that aims to bring together companies from different sectors to share resources, namely energy, materials, and water. The main goal of IS is to improve resource (materials, waste, energy) efficiency and lead to mutual environmental, financial and social benefits to participants. In this paper we present a semantic approach for I...

This paper puts health questions within the context of national development and industrial policy. It follows the idea of structuralist, Marxist and Schumpeterian approaches, in which industry and innovations form determining factors for the dynamism in capitalist economies and relative positions within the world economy. All countries that have developed and started to compete under better con...