Estimation of particulate mass and manganese exposure levels among welders

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-125

  Hobson, Angela ^a   Seixas, Noah ^b   Sterling, David ^c   Racette, Brad A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

exposure; manganese; welding

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC MEAN; BASE METALS; CROSS VALIDATION; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE DETERMINANTS; EXPOSURE LEVEL; HEALTH OUTCOMES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LITERATURE SEARCH; MEASUREMENT DATA; MN CONCENTRATIONS; MODEL SELECTION; MULTIVARIATE MODELS; PARTICULATE MASS; QUANTITATIVE LEVEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; WELDING FUMES; WELDING PROCESS;

ELECTRIC WELDING; ENCLOSURES; ESTIMATION; HEALTH RISKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MANGANESE;

MANGANESE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WELDING;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; MANGANESE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WELDING;

EID: 78751514634     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/meq069     Document Type: Article

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