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Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Volume 8, 2011 - Issue 2
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Silica Exposure Assessment in a Mortality Study of Vermont Granite Workers

Dave K. Verma Program in Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Pamela M. Vacek Department of Medical Biostatistics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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Karen des Tombe Program in Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Murray Finkelstein Program in Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Barbara Branch Department of Medical Biostatistics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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Graham W. Gibbs Safety Health Environment International Consultants Corp., Devon, Alberta, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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William G. Graham Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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Pages 71-79 | Published online: 10 Jan 2011

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Yuan Shao, Jooyeon Hwang, Bruce H. Alexander, Jeffrey H. Mandel, Richard F. MacLehose & Gurumurthy Ramachandran. (2019) Reconstructing historical exposures to elongate mineral particles (EMPs) in the taconite mining industry for 1955–2010. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 16:12, pages 817-826.
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Kevin Gildas Dongmo Tambah, Jean-Pierre Kenné & Victor Songmene. (2022) Preventive maintenance and silica exposure limits integrated in the production planning of a granite processing unit. Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering 29:1, pages 1-26.
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Yuan Shao, Jooyeon Hwang, Richard F MacLehose, Bruce H Alexander, Jeffrey H Mandel, Peter C Raynor & Gurumurthy Ramachandran. (2022) Reconstructing Historical Exposures to Respirable Dust and Respirable Silica in the Taconite Mining Industry for 1955–2010. Annals of Work Exposures and Health 66:4, pages 459-471.
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Mohamed Nejib Saidi, Abdelhakim Djebara, Victor Songmene & Ali Bahloul. (2019) Experimental Evaluation of Three Local Exhaust Ventilation Systems Designed to Reduce Ultrafine Dust Emission During a Polishing Process. Aerosol Science and Engineering 4:1, pages 9-17.
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V. Songmene & O. A. Olufayo. (2020) Advances in Fine and Ultrafine Particles Emission and Dispersion in Machining: cases of metals and granite. Advances in Fine and Ultrafine Particles Emission and Dispersion in Machining: cases of metals and granite.
M. N. Saidi, V. Songmene, J. Kouam & A. Bahloul. (2019) Study of surface quality and dust particles emission and dispersion during dry polishing of granite. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 104:9-12, pages 4675-4684.
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Ali Bahloul, Abdelhakim Djebara, Mohamed Nejib Saidi, Victor Songmene, Fernando Villalpando & Marcelo Reggio. (2019) Computational and Experimental Analysis of Ultrafine Particle Dispersion During Granite Polishing. Aerosol Science and Engineering 3:1, pages 21-31.
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Pamela M Vacek & Peter W Callas. (2017) Lung-cancer mortality among Vermont granite workers: factors influencing exposure–response evaluation. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 74:3, pages 211-217.
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M. N. Saidi, V. Songmene, J. Kouam & A. Bahloul. (2015) Experimental investigation on fine particle emission during granite polishing process. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 81:9-12, pages 2109-2121.
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Yashodhar P. Bhandary, Shwetha K. Shetty, Amarnath S. Marudamuthu, Jian Fu, Barbara M. Pinson, Jeffrey Levin & Sreerama Shetty. (2015) Role of p53–fibrinolytic system cross-talk in the regulation of quartz-induced lung injury. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 283:2, pages 92-98.
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Iqbal Ahmad, Mohd Imran Khan, Govil Patil & L.K.S. Chauhan. (2012) Evaluation of cytotoxic, genotoxic and inflammatory responses of micro- and nano-particles of granite on human lung fibroblast cell IMR-90. Toxicology Letters 208:3, pages 300-307.
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Iqbal Ahmad, Mohd Imran Khan & Govil Patil. (2011) Nanotoxicity of Occupational Dust Generated in Granite Stone Saw Mill. Nanotoxicity of Occupational Dust Generated in Granite Stone Saw Mill.
Susan Peters, Roel Vermeulen, Lützen Portengen, Ann Olsson, Benjamin Kendzia, Raymond Vincent, Barbara Savary, Jérôme Lavoué, Domenico Cavallo, Andrea Cattaneo, Dario Mirabelli, Nils Plato, Joelle Fevotte, Beate Pesch, Thomas Brüning, Kurt Straif & Hans Kromhout. (2011) Modelling of occupational respirable crystalline silica exposure for quantitative exposure assessment in community-based case-control studies. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 13:11, pages 3262.
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