TY - GEN
T1 - Zinc-protoporphyrin metabolite level affected by work environment stresses
AU - Hashemi, Ray R.
AU - Bahar, Mahmood
AU - Bahrami, Azita
AU - Tyler, Nicholas R.
AU - Antonelli, Matthew
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The presence of Zinc-protoporphyrin (ZPP) in a patient's blood sample suggests: Iron depletion, unacceptable rate of iron delivery to bone marrow, and/or led toxicity in the patient. Therefore, existing of traceable amount of ZPP in a patient's blood causes gradual catastrophic health problems for the patient. Do the stresses in a work environment contribute to the presence of ZPP in workers' blood? In this paper, we investigate the answer to the proposed question in reference to the blue color workers of an aluminum factory. The workers are exposed to a spectrum of the stresses. The "bad body posture" is in one end of the spectrum and "exposure to magnetic field" is at the other end and a variety of stresses such as exposure to noise, gas, fume, extreme heat/cold, vibration, radiation, and allergens are in between. The goal of this investigation is two-fold: (a) introduction and utilization of the Soft Semantic Association Degrees (SSADs) approach for analysis of the relationship between work environment stresses and ZPP behavior and (b) identification of the conditions under which the workers can be relatively safe.
AB - The presence of Zinc-protoporphyrin (ZPP) in a patient's blood sample suggests: Iron depletion, unacceptable rate of iron delivery to bone marrow, and/or led toxicity in the patient. Therefore, existing of traceable amount of ZPP in a patient's blood causes gradual catastrophic health problems for the patient. Do the stresses in a work environment contribute to the presence of ZPP in workers' blood? In this paper, we investigate the answer to the proposed question in reference to the blue color workers of an aluminum factory. The workers are exposed to a spectrum of the stresses. The "bad body posture" is in one end of the spectrum and "exposure to magnetic field" is at the other end and a variety of stresses such as exposure to noise, gas, fume, extreme heat/cold, vibration, radiation, and allergens are in between. The goal of this investigation is two-fold: (a) introduction and utilization of the Soft Semantic Association Degrees (SSADs) approach for analysis of the relationship between work environment stresses and ZPP behavior and (b) identification of the conditions under which the workers can be relatively safe.
KW - Environmental Stress
KW - Safe Environment
KW - Soft Semantic Association Degrees
KW - Work Environment Stress
KW - Workers' Health
KW - ZPP Metabolite
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886687039&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ITNG.2013.74
DO - 10.1109/ITNG.2013.74
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84886687039
SN - 9780769549675
T3 - Proceedings of the 2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, ITNG 2013
SP - 584
EP - 589
BT - Proceedings of the 2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology
T2 - 2013 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, ITNG 2013
Y2 - 15 April 2013 through 17 April 2013
ER -