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Nadezda Stevulova, Adriana Estokova, Marian Holub, Eva Singovszka and Kornel Csach
This paper focuses on the characterization of demolition construction waste containing asbestos fibers and the monitoring of fibrous dust released from asbestos?cement products (ACPs) during their removal from a three-story industrial building. Asbestos-...
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Flavia Adorno Landim,Claudia de Oliveira D'Arêde,Luiz Roberto Santos Moraes
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Ao se estudar e analisar resíduos sólidos, nota-se a relação entre os aspectos ocupacionais, ambientais e de saúde. Os resíduos sólidos provenientes de materiais contendo amianto são comprovadamente nocivos, causando o adoecimento dos trabalhadores e cul...
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Maurizio Pollino, Sergio Cappucci, Ludovica Giordano, Domenico Iantosca, Luigi De Cecco, Danilo Bersan, Vittorio Rosato and Flavio Borfecchia
Earthquake-induced rubble in urbanized areas must be mapped and characterized. Location, volume, weight and constituents are key information in order to support emergency activities and optimize rubble management. A procedure to work out the geometric ch...
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Maurizio Tommasini, Alessandro Bacciottini and Monica Gherardelli
Exposure to asbestos fibers implies a long-term risk for human health; therefore, the development of information systems that are able to detect the extent and status of asbestos over a certain territory has become a priority. This work presents a tool (...
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David Vernez, Olivier Duperrex, Horacio Herrera, Vincent Perret, Isabelle Rossi, Frederic Regamey and Michel Guillemin
The measurement of an airborne concentration in Amosite fibers above 5035 F/m3 in a school prompted a retrospective quantitative health risk assessment. Dose estimates were built using air measurements, laboratory experiments, previous exposure data, and...
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Caterina Rinaudo and Alessandro Croce
Featured Application: Micro-Raman spectroscopy has been proved to be a quick technique for the study of minerals showing asbestiform morphology, in particular for identification of those ascribing to the phases defined by Law ?asbestos?. Moreover, inform...
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Serpentinites are characterized by highly variable mineralogical, physical, and mechanical properties. Serpentinites from Moeche (North Western Spain) have been studied to establish their mineralogical, petrographic, and textural characteristics, as well...
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Matthew Soeberg, Deborah A. Vallance, Victoria Keena, Ken Takahashi and James Leigh
The most effective way of reducing the global burden of asbestos-related diseases is through the implementation of asbestos bans and minimising occupational and non-occupational exposure to respirable asbestos fibres. Australia?s asbestos consumption pea...
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Andrea Bloise and Domenico Miriello
An innovative and, as yet, untested approach is to analyze serpentinite and metabasite rocks containing asbestos using a portable multi-analytical device, which combines portable digital microscopy (p-DM), portable X-ray Fluorescence (p-XRF) and portable...
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Maria Carmela Dichicco, Salvatore Laurita, Rosa Sinisi, Raimondo Battiloro and Giovanna Rizzo
Worldwide studies have been done about the toxicity and carcinogenicity of asbestos minerals occurring in ophiolitic rocks. Inhalation of asbestos due to environmental exposure could cause malignant mesothelioma and lung cancers. In particular, the ophio...
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