We have recently found that selected thio-disaccharides possess bactericidal effects against Mycobacterium tuberculosis but not against Escherichia coli or Staphylococcus aureus. Here, we selected spontaneous mutants displaying resistance against the...
The continuous research and development regarding firefighters’ personal protective equipment (PPE) has led to significant improvements in recent decades. Despite the evolution of firefighters’ PPE, every year an undesirable number of fir...
PE/PPE proteins secreted by the ESX-5 type VII secretion system constitute a major protein repertoire in pathogenic mycobacteria and are essential for bacterial survival, pathogenicity, and host–pathogen interaction; however, little is known ab...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a global health emergency that triggered an acute shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), putting essential healthcare workers at risk. Starting March 2020, given the skyrocketing prices of PPE in the open market...
Starting from the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, billions of personal protective equipment (PPE), mainly face masks (FMs), are reported to be worn and thrown away every month worldwide. Most of the waste winds up in landfills and undergoes an incin...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) possesses a unique, lipid-rich cell envelope that is critical for virulence, drug resistance, and persistence. Here, we identify the PPE family protein PPE57 as a key regulator of mycolic acid transport and host lip...
Accidents occur in the construction industry as a result of non-compliance with personal protective equipment (PPE). As a result of diverse environments, it is difficult to detect PPE automatically. Traditional image detection models like convolution...
The rapid growth of personal protective equipment (PPE) consumption has generated unprecedented volumes of polymer-based waste, posing a major challenge to the transition from a linear to a circular economic model. The challenges associated with PPE...
Safety on construction sites is an essential yet challenging issue due to the inherently hazardous nature of these sites. Workers are expected to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), such as helmets, vests, and safety glasses, to prevent or mini...
It is estimated that we spend one-third of our lives at work. It is therefore vital to adapt traditional equipment and systems used in the working environment to the new technological paradigm so that the industry is connected and, at the same time,...
6 June 2023
Firefighters are at an increased risk of cancer due to their occupational exposure to combustion byproducts, especially when those compounds penetrate the firefighter personal protective equipment (PPE) ensemble. This has led to questions about the i...
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1851 document provides guidelines for firefighters on the care and maintenance of their PPE, including decontamination practices. Firefighters are exposed to various toxic chemicals during fire suppress...
Background/Objectives: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of tuberculosis and the leading cause of death from a single infection with the microorganism. Tuberculosis remains globally one of the major diseases leading to high mortality...
In manufacturing environments, the proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is essential to prevent workplace accidents. Despite this need, existing PPE monitoring methods remain largely manual and suffer from limited coverage, significant e...
An evaluation of the ameliorative effect of pomegranate peel extract (PPE) in counteracting the toxicity of iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe2O3-NPs) that cause hepatic tissue damage is focused on herein. Forty male albino mice were haphazardly grouped in...
Heat stress on workers wearing PPE (Personal protective equipment) in hot outdoor environments is of rising concern, especially in cases when rest breaks and clothing changes are impractical. Mist fan evaporative cooling could provide low-energy cont...
Working with a chainsaw is a risk for arborists. When handling a chainsaw, serious injuries can occur, particularly to the arms. For this reason, arborists must wear personal protective equipment (PPE) against chainsaws. This protective equipment cor...
Adverse imaging conditions such as fog, rain, and low light degrade the reliability of vision-based Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) detection systems on construction sites, yet most existing models are trained under clear-weather assumptions. Thi...
Aiming at the challenges of detecting personal protective equipment (PPE) and tools in power-construction scenes, including missed small objects, confusion between similar objects, inaccurate localization of pose-related objects, reduced robustness i...
To address the challenges of limited visual information of PPE and complex background interference that constrains detection performance in substation operation scenarios, an efficient detection model, SDC-YOLOv10n, is proposed based on YOLOv10n. The...
Personal protective equipment (PPE) detection requires architectures balancing accuracy and computational efficiency for real-time safety monitoring. This study presents the first comprehensive benchmarking and systematic comparative evaluation of YO...
Despite advances in YOLO-based PPE detection, existing approaches primarily focus on architectural modifications. However, these approaches overlook second-order optimization methods for navigating complex loss landscapes in object detection. This st...
The Italian government on the 8th of march in response to the increased global prevalenceof severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) stated a national quarantine. In this period the absence of rapid and sure screening tests for CO...
(1) Background: Progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) leads to irreversible lung damage and inflammatory responses; however, biomarker discovery for monitoring of COPD progression remains challenging. (2) Methods: This study eva...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic increase in the use of PPE by the general public as well as health professionals. Scientists and health organizations have developed measures to protect people and minimize the catastrophic outcomes of COVI...
Vision-based monitoring of personal protective equipment (PPE) is central to construction safety, yet robust detectors remain limited by scarce, privacy-constrained site imagery. Digital twin simulation can generate labeled synthetic data at scale, b...
There is an ever-growing need in several industries to disinfect or sanitise products (i.e., to reduce or eliminate pathogenic microorganisms from their surfaces). Gaseous ozone has been widely applied for this purpose, particularly during the era of...
Since the emergence of COVID-19, the aviation sector has been one of the numerous industries which have been affected the most. In this present paper, the thought of death among aviation workers as an indicator of anxiety at a time when the availabil...
Corporate management and their auditors are required to evaluate whether there is a risk that the company’s ability to continue as a going concern is impaired. For fixed asset-intensive firms, however, regulatory inspections consistently identi...
The aim of this study was to model and evaluate the Specific Energy Absorption Rate (SAR) values in humans in proximity to fixed multi-antenna I-RFID readers of passive tags under various scenarios mimicking exposure when they are incorporated in Rea...
A method was developed for the rapid and quantitative analysis of 30 veterinary drugs belonging to 17 classes (amphenicols (1), anthelmintics (1), cephalosporins (4), coccidiostats (1), lincosamides (1), macrolide (1), nitroimidazole (1), penicillins...
The purpose of this study was to quantify the degree to which personal protective equipment (PPE) affects the core–skin temperature gradient in nine recruit firefighters attending fire academy. Participants wore a chest monitor and ingested a p...
22 October 2025
Selfies of nurses and healthcare workers (HCWs) with painful personal protective equipment (PPE) injuries posted to social media provided early warning of the global PPE shortage impact during the COVID-19 pandemic. We aim to describe contextual fact...
31 January 2023
During the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) necessitated unprecedented and non-validated approaches to conserve PPE at healthcare facilities, especially in high income countries where single-use disposa...
The use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for virus handling has the side effect of heat stress, which requires intervention to improve. This study aimed to evaluate the comfort of a newly designed PPE ensemble for virus handling. Three types of...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE; e.g., face mask) has increased. Mandating subjects to wear PPE during vigorous exercise might affect the fatigue outcomes of transcranial direct current stimulation...
21 February 2022
There have been widespread issues with the supply and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) globally throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, raising considerable public concern. We aimed to understand the experiences of healthcare workers usi...
The period from 2019 to 2022 has been defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in an unprecedented demand for and use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). However, the disposal of PPE without considering its environmental impact and proper wast...
26 July 2021
Considering the importance of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for preventing COVID-19 transmission, the aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the use of PPE from the perspective of the nurses caring for COVID-19 p...
The Phasmatodea Population Evolution (PPE) algorithm, inspired by the evolution of the phasmatodea population, is a recently proposed meta-heuristic algorithm that has been applied to solve problems in engineering. Chaos theory has been increasingly...
It is mandatory that healthcare workers wear personal protective equipment (PPE) while caring for COVID-19 patients. Studies have shown that wearing PPE for a prolonged time may lead to symptoms of physical discomfort including headache. The aim of t...
Background: Diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) is a common chronic functional gastrointestinal disorder that causes diarrheal and intestinal barrier disruptions. Although pomegranate peel extract (PPE) has been reported for the tre...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an age-related neurological disorder with increasing incidence and modifiable risk factors. People exposed to pesticides have up to a 2-fold higher risk of developing PD. Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) when usi...
Personal protective equipment (PPE) can increase the safety of the worker for sure by reducing the probability and severity of injury or fatal incidents at construction, chemical, and hazardous sites. PPE is widely required to offer a satisfiable saf...
23 February 2024
Introduction: Acute pesticide poisoning (APP) continues to affect farm workers, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The dose–response relationship between exposure and APP is well-researched, but pesticide exposure assessment...
Occupational sectors are perennially challenged by the potential for workplace accidents, particularly in roles involving tools and machinery. A notable cause of such accidents is the inadequate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), essential i...
The risk of both fatal accidents and non-fatal injuries in the construction industry is significantly high in most countries. To reduce this construction safety risk, the proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is one of the major measures...
Two different blend ratios of polyamide 66 (PA66) and poly (2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene ether) (PPE) (60/40 and 40/60 w/w) were produced via melt mixing. A styrene–maleic anhydride copolymer (SMA) was utilized at various contents from 2.5–...
The examination of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to assure the complete integrity of health personnel in contact with infected patients is one of the most necessary tasks when treating patients affected by infectious diseases, such as Ebola. Th...
Personal health and safety are significant concerns across agricultural education, specifically agricultural mechanics. While hearing safety has been discussed for numerous years as a shortcoming in overall safety actions, it has been identified that...
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