Water based paints contain organic solvents and many additives, such as biocides, surfactants, pigments, binders, amines, and monomers. The chemical complexity may introduce new potential health hazards to house painters, in particular irritative and allergic disorders. This study was performed to compare how house painters experience work with water based paints or solvent based paints, and to...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effectiveness of protective suits and gloves by biomonitoring. METHODS Fifteen male spray painters at a ship coating factory were studied for two weeks. Workers wore no protective clothing during the first week and wore protective suits and gloves during the second week. Sampling was conducted on four consecutive working days each week. Ethyl benzene and xylene in ...

We conduct an empirical analysis of the effect on the auction price of a Canadian painting of the age of the painter at the time of creation of the painting. We consider several hundred artists, active over the entire history of Canadian art, who are pooled in the estimation of a hedonic regression in which a polynomial function in age enters as a regressor along with several other control vari...

Aim: This study investigated the correlation between respiratory symptoms and ventilatory function among car spray painters.
 Methodology: The was a cross-sectional analytical study. population comprised painters from various automobile workshops in Ibadan control subjects. group of individuals not exposed to paint or other hazards their workplaces. sample size determined using Fisher’s fo...

Painters reproduce the appearances they see, or visualize. The entire human visual system is the first part of that process, providing extensive spatial processing. Painters have used spatial techniques since the Renaissance to render HDR scenes. Silver halide photography responds to the light falling on single film pixels. Film can only mimic the retinal response of the cones at the start of t...

hahve khane painting is influenced by naghali (narration) due to the atmosphere of narrating religious and mythical narration stories. examination of sound and illustration adaptation in this type of painting, considering the influence of naghali on ghahve khane painting, is the subject of this research. ghahve khane painting is divided into three categories by content: “martial”, “religious”, ...

Mikulski, P. I., Wiglusz, Renata, Bublewska, Anna, and Uselis, J. (1972). Brit. J. industr. Med., 29, 450-453. Investigation of exposure of ships' painters to organic solvents. An analysis was carried out of the hazard to ships' painters working at different concentrations of toluene and xylene vapours in air. The authors point out that it is possible to use a joint determination of hippuric an...