• Safety and Health at Work
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.105-121
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• 2011

Objectives: This paper presents the framework and protocol design for a construction industry risk management toolbox. The construction industry needs a comprehensive, systematic approach to assess and control occupational risks. These risks span several professional health and safety disciplines, emphasized by multiple international occupational research agenda projects including: falls, electrocution, noise, silica, welding fumes, and musculoskeletal disorders. Yet, the International Social Security Association says, "whereas progress has been made in safety and health, the construction industry is still a high risk sector." Methods: Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) employ about 80% of the world's construction workers. In recent years a strategy for qualitative occupational risk management, known as Control Banding (CB) has gained international attention as a simplified approach for reducing work-related risks. CB groups hazards into stratified risk 'bands', identifying commensurate controls to reduce the level of risk and promote worker health and safety. We review these qualitative solutions-based approaches and identify strengths and weaknesses toward designing a simplified CB 'toolbox' approach for use by SMEs in construction trades. Results: This toolbox design proposal includes international input on multidisciplinary approaches for performing a qualitative risk assessment determining a risk 'band' for a given project. Risk bands are used to identify the appropriate level of training to oversee construction work, leading to commensurate and appropriate control methods to perform the work safely. Conclusion: The Construction Toolbox presents a review-generated format to harness multiple solutions-based national programs and publications for controlling construction-related risks with simplified approaches across the occupational safety, health and hygiene professions.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.315-320
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• 2016

Porcine beta-defensin-1 (PBD-1) gene plays an important role in the innate immunity of pigs. The peptide encoded by this gene is an antimicrobial peptide that has direct activity against a wide range of microbes. This peptide is involved in the co-creation of an antimicrobial barrier in the oral cavity of pigs. The objective of the present study was to detect polymorphisms, if any, in exon-1 and exon-2 regions of PBD-1 gene in Large White Yorkshire (LWY) and native Ankamali pigs of Kerala, India. Blood samples were collected from 100 pigs and genomic DNA was isolated using phenol chloroform method. The quantity of DNA was assessed in a spectrophotometer and quality by gel electrophoresis. Exon-1 and exon-2 regions of PBD-1 gene were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the products were subjected to single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis. Subsequent silver staining of the polyacrylamide gels revealed three unique SSCP banding patterns in each of the two exons. The presence of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was confirmed by nucleotide sequencing of the PCR products. A novel SNP was found in the 5'-UTR region of exon-1 and a SNP was detected in the mature peptide coding region of exon-2. In exon-1, the pooled population frequencies of GG, GT, and TT genotypes were 0.67, 0.30, and 0.03, respectively. GG genotype was predominant in both the breeds whereas TT genotype was not detected in LWY breed. Similarly, in exon-2, the pooled population frequencies of AA, AG, and GG genotypes were 0.50, 0.27, and 0.23, respectively. AA genotype was predominant in LWY pigs whereas GG genotype was predominant in native pigs. These results suggest that there exists a considerable genetic variation at PBD-1 locus and further association studies may help in development of a PCR based genotyping test to select pigs with better immunity.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.78 no.3
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• pp.287-301
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• 1989

A tree of Ailanthus altissima Swingle was fastened with a plastic band, 19mm wide, around the stem 180cm above ground level and was left to grow under this condition for one year, By removal of this band the tumorous tissue gradually developed and the tree bearing distinct tumorous tissue, an overgrowth surrounding the stem, was harvested two years after the band removal. For the investigation of this tumorous part and its comparison with adjacent normal parts in the anatomical features of individual elements, the tumorous part and parts directly and 40cm above and below the tumorous part were obtained from the tree. The tumor wood having remarkably wider growth increment occurred in the 3rd growth ring the first year after removal of the fastened band, and the barrier zone which delimited the discolored wood from the normal-colored wood inwards appeared u1 the intra-2nd growth ring produced during the fastened period in the tumorous part and the false ring-like zones equivalent to barrier Zone were shown in the normal-colored 2nd growth rings of the parts directly and 40cm above and below the tumorous part, as well. The tumor wood, the 3rd growth ring, and proportion of the 2nd growth ring formed after barrier zone in the tumorous part shared common characteristics in the irregular growth ring boundary, misshapen and shorter individual fibers and vessel elements, and large ray widths and heights. The springwood pores were smaller in diameter in the tumor wood, and the larger radial and smaller tangential diameters of summerwood solitary pores and individual pores consisting of pore multiples in proportion of the 2nd growth ring formed after the barrier zone were transformed into near-isodiametric in the tumor wood, the 3rd growth ring, in the tumorous part. Only in proportion of the 2nd growth ring formed after the barrier zone were transformed into near-isodiametric in the tumor wood, the 3rd growth ring, in the tumorous part, ray densities greatly increased. And the massive tumor wood was caused not by cell size but by cell number because the radial and tangential diameters of fibers in the tumor wood, the 3rd growth ring, in the tumorous part were not sufficiently different from those in the same aged growth rings of the directly and 40cm above and below the tumorous part.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.1-25
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• 1989

가죽나무 (Alianthus altissima Swingle) 수간(樹幹)의 지항고(地上高) 180cm 부위(部位)에 19mm 너비의 플라스틱 밴드를 결체(結締)하여 1년간(年間) 방치(放置)한 후 이 밴드를 결체(結締)하여 주므로써 수가(樹幹)을 둘러싸는 원반형태(圓盤形態)의 과대(過大)한 비대생장(肥大生長) 조직(組織)인 종양상조직(腫瘍狀組織)(tumorous tissue)이 형성(形成)되고 이러한 종양상(腫瘍狀) 조직(組織)의 원반(圓盤)과 상하(上下)에 위치(位置)한 정상형태(正常形態)의 원반(圓盤)을 채취(採取)하여 해부학적(解剖學的) 차이(差異)를 조직학적(組織學的) 특성(特性)면에서 조사(調査) 비교(比較)하였다. 종양상(腫瘍狀) 부위(部位)에서는 이상적(異常的)으로 넓은 연륜폭(年輪幅)을 지니는 중양재(腫瘍材)(tumor wood)가 밴드 해체(解締) 다음 해인 제(第)3연륜(年輪)에서 형성(形成)되었으며 밴드 결체기간(結締期間)중에 생장(生長)한 제(第)2연륜내(年輪內)에서는 내부(內部)로 발달(發達)된 변색재(變色材)(discolored wood)와 외부(外部)로 발달(發達)한 정상재색(正常材色)을 구분하는 방어대(防禦帶)(barrier zone)가 형성(形成)되어 있었으며 이 종양상(腫瘍狀) 부위(部位)의 상하(上下)에 위치(位置)한 정상형태(正常形態)의 부위(部位)에서는 정상재색(正常材色)을 나타내는 제(第)2연륜내(年輪內)에 방어대(防禦帶)에 해당하는 위연륜상대(僞年輪狀帶)(false ring-like zones)가 형성(形成)되어 있었는데 이러한 방어대(防禦帶)와 위연륜상대(僞年輪狀帶)는 비정상적(非正常的)으로 과다한 이상형태(異常形態)의 유세포(柔細胞)와 상해(傷害)검구(溝) 및 검강(腔)으로 구성되어 있는 특징(特徵)을 나타내고 있다. 종양상(腫瘍狀) 부위(部位)에 있어서 종양재((腫瘍材)인 제(第)3연륜(年輪)과 방어대(防禦帶)후에 발달(發達)한 제(第)2연륜부분(年輪部分)은 불규칙(不規則)한 연륜계(年輪界), 매우 불규칙적(不規則的)인 구조(構造)를 지니는 이상조직(異常組織), 비정상적(非正常的)인 형태(形態)를 나타내는 목섬유(木纖維) 및 도관요소(導管要素), 비정상적(非正常的)인 형태(形態)를 지니는 방사조직(放射組織)을 가지며 추재부(秋材部)에 고립관공(孤立管孔) 및 복합관공(複台管孔)이 발달(發達)하며 스트랜드유세포(柔細胞)와 방사유세포(放射柔細胞)에 결정(結晶)이 존재(存在)한다는 면에서 서로 유사(類似)하였다. 그리고 제(第)3연륜(年輪)인 종양재(腫瘍材)의 춘재부(春材部) 관공(管孔)의 수(數)는 정상재(正常材)보다 작은 것으로 나타났다.