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• Safety climate
  However, in recent years an increasing body of evidence suggests that more attention should be focussed on ‘leading indicators’ ...in the kind and number of issues assessed. Furthermore there is a lack of evidence to demonstrate that current measurement tools employed by the safety profes
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• Cancer
  ...title=Tobacco smoking and cancer: a brief review of recent epidemiological evidence |journal=Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |volume=45 Suppl 2 |issue= |p ...n proposed as a cause of cancer, but there is currently little established evidence of such a link.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Feychting M, Ahlbom A, Kheifets
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• Workplace stress
  ...]), and cognitive impairment (e.g., concentration and memory problems). In turn, these conditions may lead to poor work performance or even [[injury]]. Job ...te of workers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Survey Research Associates.</ref> Evidence also suggests that stress is the major cause of [[Turnover (employment)|tur
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• Implications of nanotechnology
  ...which were previously inaccessible due to physical restrictions, which in turn may reduce labor, land, or maintenance requirements placed on humans. ...ured machinery will tempt the use of very small products, which can easily turn into nano-litter that will be hard to clean up and may cause health problem
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• Work–life balance (United States)
  During the turn of the twentieth century, the push for an eight-hour workday was geared pri ...ked outside the home. Even if the hours worked were slightly higher at the turn of the century, most households were supported by one paycheck. “In 1900
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• Beryllium
  ...increased [[solar wind]] during periods of high solar magnetic activity in turn decreases the flux of [[galactic cosmic ray]]s that reach the Earth. ...n its chemistry beryllium exhibits the +2 [[oxidation state]] and the only evidence of lower valence of beryllium is in the solubility of the metal in [[beryll
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• Lead poisoning
  Kidney damage occurs with exposure to high levels of lead, and evidence suggests that lower levels can damage kidneys as well.<ref name="Grant09-78 ...disease]], [[heart rate variability]], and death from [[stroke]], but this evidence is more limited.<ref name="Navas-Acien06">{{Cite pmid|17431501 }}</ref> Pe
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• Lead
  ...Among the halides, the iodide is less soluble than the bromide, which, in turn, is less soluble than the chloride.<ref name="brady_holum">{{cite book| aut ...Patterson|Patterson, Clair C.]]; Boutron, Claude F. (1994): "Greenland Ice Evidence of Hemispheric Lead Pollution Two Millennia Ago by Greek and Roman Civiliza
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• List of foods named after people
  ...I of France|Napoleon]], and he also bought the [[Elba]] house of exile to turn into a museum. He was a patron of artists, and a ''bon vivant''. There are ...can cake took its name from [[Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate]], which in turn took its name from [[Sam German]] who developed the sweet baking chocolate
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• List of fictional diseases
  ...), [[Chancellor Palpatine]] secretly chooses not to completely destroy all evidence or research of the virus, but rather opts to hold onto it as a back-up plan |A skin disease that causes the hands and feet of the body to turn a sickly green color. This can usually only be cured by a series of painful
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• Phosphate homeostasis
  There is evidence for a hormone/enzyme/extracellular matrix protein cascade involving [[fibro ...|pages=1943–7 |pmid=17311862 |doi=10.1210/jc.2006-1825 }}</ref> which in turn affects FGF23<ref name=Kato/>.
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• Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency
  ...d blood vessels caused increased deposition of iron in the brain, which in turn triggers [[autoimmunity]] and degeneration of the nerve's [[Myelin|myelin s *high-resolution B-mode ultrasound evidence of stenosis of the internal jugular vein,
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• Cannabis (drug)
  ...[[South Asia]].<ref>"Marijuana and the Cannabinoids", ElSohly (p.8)</ref> Evidence of the [[inhalation]] of cannabis [[smoke]] can be found in the [[3rd mille ...ef>{{cite book|title=Understanding marijuana: a new look at the scientific evidence|author=Mitchell Earlywine|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=
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• Buprenorphine
  ...tions to users, which reduces the amount of opiates sold illicitly and, in turn, the number of users of other drugs who encounter and begin using the opiat ...to be associated with a more severe and prolonged withdrawal. However, no evidence thus far exists that sustaining abstinence post-buprenorphine maintenance i
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• Methadone
  ...nown for its use in treating narcotic addiction. A great deal of anecdotal evidence was available "on the street" that methadone might prove effective in treat Aegis Medical Systems ''Tapering Off of Methadone Maintenance: Evidence-Based Guidelines''
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• Xenon
  ...|hexagonal close packed]] (hcp) crystal phase under pressure and begins to turn metallic at about 140&nbsp;GPa, with no noticeable volume change in the hcp |title=Evidence of nonspecific surface interactions between laser-polarized xenon and myogl
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• Anniston, Alabama
  ...s fighting the continuing destruction of local facilities. Croxton's only evidence against Lloyd was that the shooting took place near Lloyd's farm.<ref>''''C ...more pedestrian friendly. The old four lane thoroughfare was gutted, and turn-of-the-20th-century trolley tracks were removed to help resurface the stree
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• Los Angeles Times bombing
  ...d]] not guilty. McManigal, who had [[turn state's evidence|turned state's evidence]], was not charged at that time.<ref name="Foner" /> ...neral|U.S. Attorney General]] [[George W. Wickersham]] had obtained enough evidence on his own to secure, with [[President of the United States|President]] [[W
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• George Metesky
  ...endangering life, and carrying concealed weapons in violation of New York State's [[Sullivan Act|Sullivan Law]]. ...disputed by Consolidated Edison, the accident led to [[pneumonia]] that in turn developed into [[tuberculosis]]. A claim for [[workers' compensation]] was
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• Rosewood massacre
  ...after Reconstruction era (United States)|disfranchised]] blacks since the turn of the century, both Sumner and Rosewood were part of a single voting preci ...ons, or attacks on entire communities. Lynchings reached a peak around the turn of the century and continued to be used as punishment throughout the South.
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