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Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 78-50 (A, B, & C)-517: Colorado-Ute Electric Association: Hayden, Nucla, and Montrose (Colorado)
No full textEnvironmental and medical surveys were conducted from March 21 to 23, 1978, to evaluate potential exposures to coal dust during the operation and maintenance of power facilities of the Colorado Ute Electric Association (SIC-4911) in Hayden, Nucla, and Montrose, Colorado. The evaluation was requested by a representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 111, on behalf of approximately 80 affected employees. At the Hayden facility, excessive concentrations of crystalline silica (14808607), ranging from 0.0 to 0.06 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3) exceeded the OSHA standard of 10 milligrams per meter divided by the percentage of respirable quartz plus 2. Total coal dust concentrations also exceeded the 2.0mg/m3 OSHA standard at the Hayden facility. Concentrations of crystalline silica total coal dust, and fly ash, at the Nucla facility exceeded OSHA standards (fly ash standard was 15mg/m3). At the Montrose facility, concentrations of crystalline silica and respirable and total coal dust exceeded OSHA standards. The author concludes that a health hazard did exist at the three facilities, although the workers at the Hayden facility were adequately protected by respirators. The author recommends that respirators and a respirator program be initiated at the Nucla and Montrose facilities, that periodic coal dust monitoring be performed at all facilities, and that workers receiving dust exposures be periodically examined and X-rayed. [Description provided by NIOSH
Prison or palace? Haven or hell? : an architectural and social study of the development of public lunatic asylums in Scotland, 1781-1930
No full textIn 1897 John Sibbald, Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland, stated that ‘the
construction of an asylum is a more interesting subject of study for the general reader
than might be supposed.’ This thesis traces the development of the public asylum in
Scotland from 1781 to 1930.
By placing the institution in its wider social context it provides more than a historical
account, exploring how the buildings functioned as well as giving an architectural
analysis based on date, plan and style. Here the architecture represents more, and
provides a physical expression of successive stages of public philanthropy and legislative
changes during what was arguably one of the most rapidly evolving stages of history. At
a time when few medical treatments were available, public asylum buildings created truly
therapeutic environments, which allowed the mentally ill to live in relative peace and
security. The thesis explores how public asylums in Scotland introduced the segregation
or ‘classification’ of patients into separate needs-based groups under a system known as
Moral Treatment. It focuses particularly on the evolving plan forms of these institutions
from the earliest radial, prison-like structures to their development into self-sustaining
village-style colonies and shows how the plan reflects new attitudes to treatment.
While many have disappeared, the surviving Victorian and Edwardian mega-structures lie
as haunting reminders of a largely forgotten era in Scottish psychiatry. Only a few of the
original buildings are still in use today as specialist units, out-patient centres, and
administrative offices for Scotland’s Health Boards. Others have been redeveloped as
universities or luxury housing schemes, making use of the good-quality buildings and
landscaping. Whatever their current use, public asylums stand today as an outward sign
of the awakening of the Scottish people to the plight of the mentally ill in the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries
(The) man, his body, and his society: masculinity and the male experience in English and Scottish medicine c.1640-c.1780.
No full textThis thesis examines the relationship(s) between medicine, the body and societal codes of masculinity in England and Scotland between c.1640 and c.1780. It responds to the way in which the men in histories of post-1660 masculinity are often disembodied, and to the comparative absence of men’s gendered experiences from the history of medicine. Its findings show that in both centuries the experience of being a man with a body that was the site of health and sickness was an open, candid, and often communal, one, inside and outside of the formal medical encounter. Thus, and on both sides of 1700, ill men had full freedom in the pursuit and acceptance of medical, familial and social assistance, while their physical suffering, and associated emotional distress, was met with sympathy. With their sick bodies the sites of honest self-examination and open discussion, it was in part this very public nature of their sicknesses that allowed men, as a gender and as individuals, independence and agency in their non-commercial health care. Indeed, later-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century men suffered no constraints in their ability to respond to the vulnerabilities of their bodies, even where this involved behaviours or attributes allegedly associated with women and femininity, or inconsistent with ideals of active, independent, masculinity.
These findings indicate, therefore, great continuity across the period 1640-1780, and not only in masculine ideals of and involving the male corporeality. There seems to have been significant consistency across time in men’s social and medical experiences of both sickness and their pre-emptive preparation for it, and in an apparent collective self-confidence concerning their corporeal masculinity, their sex, and, possibly, even their sexual potential. Indeed, these sources suggest that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century men had a resilient sense of self-identity (and personal masculinity), conceptually separable from the corporeal body and its known fragilities
Dietary Interventions to Prevent High Fructose Diet-associated Worsening of Colitis and Colitis-associated Tumorigenesis in Mice
No full text博士(医学) 乙第3135号(主論文の要旨、要約、審査結果の要旨、本文)，著者名:Ryohei NISHIGUCHI, Srijani BASU, Hannah A STAAB, Naotake ITO, Xi Kathy ZHOU, Hanhan WANG, Taehoon HA, Melanie JOHNCILLA, Rhonda K YANTISS, David C MONTROSE, Andrew J DANNENBERG，タイトル:Dietary interventions to prevent high-fructose diet-associated worsening of colitis and colitis-associated tumorigenesis in mice，掲載誌:Carcinogenesis(0143-3334)，巻・頁・年:42巻6号 p.842～852(2021)，著作権関連情報:© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected].，DOI:10.1093/carcin/bgab00
Mechanical dissection in an introductory engineering design module
No full textThe introductory design module for first year students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde uses mechanical dissection as a focus for learning activities that seek to integrate engineering science with the prior knowledge of the students. First year groups select and remove components from a scrap motor car, and produce a technical description of the system including consideration of function, mechanics, materials and manufacturing processes. Personal and professions skills and interpersonal skills are developed through enquiry based learning. This encourages the students to identify problems and engage in analysis requiring estimation and uncertainty; sourcing information in a critical manner to integrate in their description of the chosen component. Group and communication skills are developed through peer discussion and the presentation of their research in the form of a poster and formal seminar. Student feedback indicates a high level of enjoyment of, and engagement in many of the learning activities. However, focus group interviews and questionnaire responses indicate that the key area of metallurgy has proved to be difficult for many students, probably due to a lack of relevant background knowledge. Further development of the learning activities in metallurgy is planned, including pre-reading and peer instruction to prepare the students for the staff-led materials examination sessions. Continuing evaluation of the learning experiences of the students will be undertaken to assess the effectiveness of these developments
Aspects of social imperative: The sustainable historic environment in the developing world.
No full textHeritage in post-apartheid South Africa, as with many post-colonial territories is highly politicised and contested (Coombes 2003, Tomaselli & Mpofu 1997, De Jong 2008). It tends, on occasion to the irrational, and endeavours at times to celebrate the non-existent in order to reinforce political agendas. In addition, the diversity of cultures, ethnic groups, religions and languages make objective and inclusive heritage identification and its management complex. Colonial heritages particularly, are seriously at risk: whilst this is to be expected, mitigation to minimalise risk is vital in order to retain authenticity and contextual integrity. It is thus that perhaps the most fundamental aspect of heritage and culture in developing nations is social sustainability, since this supports corrupt or inept legislative initiatives from below. This paper will address the story of heritage preservation in two “townships†in which colonial era buildings form the core of the urban fabric in the precinct. One, in Georgetown, Edendale, failed and one at Montrose House, Mpophomeni, succeeded. For the author, the key to the success was not the able intervention of mid-level policies, implementation of legislation and able authorities, but people-driven, grassroots projects with a similar goal, and operating heritage using a development approach in order to achieve goals.</p
PR4047.L39 1870 - Lays of the Scottish cavaliers and other poems
No full text"Appendix. Examination of the statements in Mr. Macaulay's History of England, regarding John Grahame of Claverhouse, viscount of Dundee" p. [249]-268 ; Lays of the Scottish cavaliers: Edinburgh after Flodden --The execution of Montrose -- The heart of the Bruce -- The burial march of Dundee -- The widow of Glencoe -- The island of the Scots -- Charles Edward at Versailles -- The old Scottish cavalier -- Miscellaneous poems: Blind old Milton -- Herotimus -- Œnone -- The buried flower -- The old camp -- Danube and the euxine -- The Schiek of Sinai -- Epitaph of Constantine Kanaris -- The refusal of Charon ; Bookplate: Presented by Mrs. H.R. Mallinson in memory of her father John W. Elliott '09 - Accession 108208 ; Bookplate: Ex Libris William Armstrong Let Us...Do...Good...While We...Have Time." Booksellers notice pasted inside front cover ; Letter by author adhered to half-title page ; Spec Coll copy has 3 bookplates (2 visible ; 1 covered)25.3cm x 20cm x 3.3cm ; contemporary full brown cloth binding ; blind and gold stamped cover boards with beveled board edges ; round, smooth spine with gold stamped titling ; machine-made, wove paper textblock with gilt edges ; machine-made, wove endpapers, no endbandsContemporary;full; brown; clothblind stamped; gold stamped;beveled edgesround; smooth; gold stamped titlingmachine-made paper; wove papermachine-made paper; wove paper; gilt edge
Aspects of social imperative: The sustainable historic environment in the developing world.
No full textHeritage in post-apartheid South Africa, as with many post-colonial territories is highly politicised and contested (Coombes 2003, Tomaselli & Mpofu 1997, De Jong 2008). It tends, on occasion to the irrational, and endeavours at times to celebrate the non-existent in order to reinforce political agendas. In addition, the diversity of cultures, ethnic groups, religions and languages make objective and inclusive heritage identification and its management complex. Colonial heritages particularly, are seriously at risk: whilst this is to be expected, mitigation to minimalise risk is vital in order to retain authenticity and contextual integrity. It is thus that perhaps the most fundamental aspect of heritage and culture in developing nations is social sustainability, since this supports corrupt or inept legislative initiatives from below. This paper will address the story of heritage preservation in two “townships†in which colonial era buildings form the core of the urban fabric in the precinct. One, in Georgetown, Edendale, failed and one at Montrose House, Mpophomeni, succeeded. For the author, the key to the success was not the able intervention of mid-level policies, implementation of legislation and able authorities, but people-driven, grassroots projects with a similar goal, and operating heritage using a development approach in order to achieve goals.</p
