Sentence examples for underground exposure from inspiring English sources

In a study of these miners followed up from 1941 to 1986, the SMR for lung cancer shows a consistent relationship with duration of underground exposure, increasing from 0.83 for surface workers to 4.47 for workers with >30 years underground exposure (Hodgson and Jones, 1990).

12 Haematite mining (underground) with exposure to radon: Mining hematite, an underground source of iron, workers are simultaneously exposed to radon – a radioactive carcinogen, which can cause a large increase in the risk of lung cancer.

The myth that has grown around MMM dictates that it was a contract-fulfilling two-fingers directed at Reed's record company and a giant raspberry to his mainstream fans, but Reed's musical apprenticeship before and during the Velvet Underground included exposure to avant-garde composer La Monte Young, the high priest of minimalist atonality.

The strength of our study is its size and homogeneity, which allowed the verification of current knowledge on lung cancer risk from underground occupational exposure to radon and its progeny based on an independent data set.

In comparison to the trucking industry, the duration of underground mine exposure was relatively short (a mean of 8 years compared with a mean of 21.6 years in the present study) but more intense, with mean EC exposures of 128 µg/m compared with the historical trucking industry's lower cross-shift estimates noted previously.

Because subway commuters and workers spend the majority of their day outside of the subway system, it is important to consider the contribution of underground subway exposures to a total daily exposure.

"The fact that pipelines run largely underground reduces their exposure to external threats," said a study concerning infrastructure safety conducted by the Congressional Research Service in 2002.

With more diesel-powered equipment used in underground mines, miners' exposure to DPM has become an increasing concern.

It seems to us that it would be more plausible to assume that surface dieselization and the resulting exposures followed the same trend as underground dieselization and exposures.

The magazine also gave exposure to underground and outside-the-mainstream groups like Lou Reed, Roxy Music and the New York Dolls before the mainstream press did.

AZ, who gained instant exposure and underground credibility due to his appearance on "Life's a Bitch", became a frequent collaborator of Nas, who appeared on his debut album Doe or Die (1995).