What's the difference between firemen and foremen?
Firemen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Fireman
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of these studies were compared with those obtained in a sample of nonfiremen residing in the Los Angeles area who were matched by computer with the firemen for anthropomorphic characteristics and smoking status.
(2) Many of the variables deteriorated in both firemen and controls, but the rate of deterioration was greater in the controls than the firemen for vital capacity, ratio of residual volume to total lung capacity, FEV1, FVC, peak expiratory flow (PEF), flow at 50% and 25% remaining vital capacity (V50 and V25 respectively), and airways resistance (Raw).
(3) Non-smoking firemen had the highest mean value of AME, decreasing through ex-smokers, controls, and smokers.
(4) The toxic hazard from cyanide produced in fires was assessed in casualties and in firemen exposed to the fire atmosphere.
(5) Protective vaccination against hepatitis B was carried out on 91 professional firemen employed in the emergency service of the municipal fire brigade, as part of the medical care offered to the public service bodies and provided for by Federal German legislation.
(6) As for the BAEPs, both click threshold and latencies showed that the impairment was most severe in the groups of maintenance workers and firemen.
(7) Among high risk subjects in the Rome area, Hantaan antibody was found in mammalogists (10%) and dialysis patients (6%), while none of the trappers, oarsmen, river policemen and firemen studied tested positive for antibodies to hantaviruses.
(8) It was a pure accident of networking that so many of them turned out to be firemen, but she is thrilled with the situation.
(9) They may also be applicable by untrained public service personnel (police and firemen), individuals in geographically inaccessible areas (aircraft), or emergency medical technicians in rural areas where skill retention is a significant problem.
(10) I’d say that’s my biggest transformation in 10 years: understanding the power of commerce to make or break lives, and that it cannot be given into as the dominating force in our lives.” Bono, who describes himself as a “natural social democrat”, said Ireland had benefited from “more hospitals and firemen and teachers because of [our tax] policies”.
(11) He was resuscitated at home by the firemen before admission in hospital, where he presented coma, convulsions and a massive distension of the abdomen.
(12) The results indicated a better adaptation of the professional compared to the volunteer firemen to work in the heat, although the degree of heat acclimatization was considered to be equally minimal in both groups.
(13) The Chernobyl accident (USSR) in 1986 resulted in extensive contamination of the environment, with non-negligible doses to the population around the plant and large collective doses in the northern hemisphere; in addition, the Chernobyl accident caused the deaths of 31 workers and firemen who intervened to bring the installation back under control.
(14) The great procession on shore comprised a number of French societies, but was composed mainly of troops, of army veterans, firemen from New York and many other American cities, sailors, schoolboys, and policemen.
(15) In a model study, 115 firemen and ambulance emergency personnel were trained in a 12-hour course to use conventional defibrillators prior to the arrival of an emergency care physician for treating patients with ventricular fibrillation.
(16) Although firemen did not differ significantly from controls, casualities showed significant elevation of blood-cyanide, and in a small proportion of fatalities blood-cyanide reached toxic levels.
(17) In a four year study of symptoms in a group of 96 firemen (31 non-smokers, 40 smokers, and 25 ex-smokers) of which 89 remained in the study for its full duration a volunteer control group of 69 male non-smokers from a variety of occupations was also followed up.
(18) The frequency of respiratory symptoms, the results of spirometric and plethysmographic studies, and the single-breath nitrogen washout were similar in the firemen, compared with the matched sample, whereas closing volume was higher in the matched controls.
(19) "They [the board] were fighting a fire and they needed to be sure the firemen weren't going to leave," said Myners.
(20) It is a city in the process of ceasing to be a city, its services run down, its ambulances limping forlornly forth from ageing hospitals, its police and firemen barely able to cope.
Foremen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Foreman
Example Sentences:
(1) Reliability of mine foremen influences greatly the group microclimate, productivity and safety of work in mines.
(2) In the duodenal ulcer group there was an undue incidence of bleeding among foremen and skilled workers and among those who were unmarried or widowed.Both the clinical history and the results of any previous barium meal examinations were unreliable guides to the source of the current haemorrhage.
(3) Degradation of proteoglycan and collagen of rabbit annulus was observed when there was narrowing of the neural foremen and the degradation process was accelerated by vibration.
(4) Criteria are worked out to score the most informative psychophysiologic functions in mine foremen during the preliminary and regular check-ups of such personnel.
(5) The figures were released a week after more than 30 Bangladeshi workers suffered shotgun wounds on a strawberry farm in southern Greece during a dispute with foremen over back pay.
(6) Mean menarcheal ages for girls from different occupational groups range from 12.82 to 13.30 years and form the following sequence, in increasing order: managers--police--non-technical professionals--engineers, technicians and foremen--skilled industrial workers and small businessmen--unskilled workers--coal-miners.
(7) Examples of groups at significant excess risk of IHD are those self-employed in the textile industry, self-employed hairdressers, foremen in the construction industry, bakers, medical and industrial laboratory technicians, telephone assistants and unskilled tube and sheet workers in shipyards.
(8) Smiths, mechanics, foremen, and shop owners of engineering works and workshops all have an excess risk of laryngeal cancer, SIR = 1.63.
(9) The article describes procedures for training counselors and successful and unsuccessful efforts to reach foremen.
(10) Newspaper cartoons depicted foremen threatening to fine workmen who found anything Roman.
(11) As such, three patients required a decompressing operation entailing resection of the posterior arch of the atlas, widening of the foremen magnum, or both.
(12) In connection with the accident, or after the investigation at the accident site, 73 victims, 65 coworkers, and 71 foremen were interviewed.
(13) The odds ratio for the association of "foremen and others" with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was 3.2 (CI95 = 1.47-7.2) based on 11 cases.
(14) The results support our assumption, as the victims tended to use external attributions, whereas the foremen and coworkers attributed the accidents to internal factors.
(15) Only one positive case was found among the workers of the other foremen.
(16) Based on the defensive attribution hypothesis, we assume that the victims of serious occupational accidents tend to attribute their accidents to external factors, while their coworkers and foremen tend to attribute the accidents to the victims' own action.
(17) During the follow-up examination the limitation of the field of vision was found in 64% of face foremen and in 13.6% of off-face miners.
(18) Two groups were manual workers (54 bricklayers and 55 rock blasters); the third group consisted of 98 foremen.
(19) Management and foremen of contractors using these materials need to ensure that their workers comply with safe procedures and wear the specified protective clothing.
(20) Those white foremen or rural poor who cracked their whips theoretically became known as "crackers".