Startup of new chemical manufacturing in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Fortunak ◽  
Woldegebriel Yeibyo ◽  
Endalkachew Tadesse ◽  
Damian Njoku
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chemical Manufacturing

An Ergonomic Evaluation and Redesign of Office Workstations to Decrease Reported Musculoskeletal Discomfort Using an Internet-Based Office Erognomics Program

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (13) ◽  
pp. 1227-1231
Author(s):  
J.D. McGlothlin ◽  
R.C. Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Manufacturing Plant ◽  
Musculoskeletal Discomfort ◽  
Chemical Manufacturing ◽  
Post Assessment ◽  
Ergonomic Evaluation

An ergonomic evaluation of 100 office spaces at a Midwest chemical manufacturing plant in the United States was conducted from May through October 2001. An internet-based office ergonomics program was used to find discrepancies between the recommended and actual measurements taken of employee workstations at the time of the assessments; to make appropriate adjustments; to purchase ergonomic equipment and furniture (when simple adjustments could not be made); and to administer musculoskeletal discomfort surveys. Thirty-three employees were selected for follow-up assessments at least one week after all adjustments were made, using the same procedure as the first assessments. These workers were chosen based on severity of reported discomfort ratings, greatest need for workstation changes (i.e., actual versus recommended workstation measurements), and amount of new furniture received or equipment installed. of these 33 participants 28 were able to complete the post assessment. A comparison of the two assessments showed that more than 54% of the employees reported reduced musculoskeletal discomfort after adjustments were made and ergonomic furniture was added to their workstation.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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