What's the difference between sawbill and sawmill?
Sawbill
Definition:
(n.) The merganser.
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Sawmill
Definition:
(n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.
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(1) This paper describes the validity and reliability of a method to retrospectively assess exposure to antisapstain agents used in sawmills (chlorophenates).
(2) Wood-trimmers' disease, generally called extrinsic allergic alveolitis, which affects workers in sawmills, is thought to be caused by fungal diaspores.
(3) It is concluded that the dust exposure in sawmills is associated mainly with restrictive type of pulmonary impairment in the exposed workers.
(4) The mortality of a cohort of 1290 sawmill workers was also studied in order to have a socially, geographically, and occupationally similar group without the exposures typical of the pulp and paper industry for comparison.
(5) Workers in five coastal sawmills were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire about symptoms considered potentially related and unrelated to fungicide exposure, and about injuries commonly reported in sawmills.
(6) Four workers from a cedar sawmill who developed red cedar asthma are described.
(7) Exposure to a new wood preservative agent (Sinesto B), whose active ingredient is 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHA), was determined by urinalysis of the parent chemical and its metabolites in workers employed in four Finnish sawmills.
(8) In a cross-sectional survey of 652 workers in a western red-cedar sawmill, we obtained data on symptoms, pulmonary function, immediate skin reactivity to common allergens, nonspecific bronchial responsiveness, total IgE level, and sensitization to plicatic acid conjugated with human serum albumin as measured by RAST.
(9) This was due to the excess of deaths from ischaemic heart disease found among the men at the sulphite, sulphate, and paper mills, maintenance department, and power plant, but not at the sawmill.
(10) Epidemiologic surveys were carried out on 1,138 white men employed in sawmills and grain elevator terminals in British Columbia.
(11) Patterson’s vision is something grander: Tchula as a manufacturing hub attracting factories providing stable if not particularly well-paid work, likethe clothing firm and sawmill used to do.
(12) Exposure to chlorophenols occurs in the vicinity of the lumber treatment area in sawmills and in subsequent work phases where treated lumber is handled.
(13) Oxygen intake for a given work load was similar in both groups, but cardiac frequency was elevated in the sawmill group.
(14) Local geology, ground water streams, and chemical analyses incriminated a local sawmill as the only plausible source of exposure.
(15) A group of 71 chlorophenate-exposed sawmill workers were identified as part of a group undergoing an extensive health and environmental evaluation in a pulp mill.
(16) A gas chromatographic (GC) method was developed for the determination of 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHA), initially in the urine of animals, but subsequently in samples of urine from sawmill workers in order to evaluate their exposure to 2-EHA which is used as a wood preservative.
(17) Antibody levels to R. microsporus and P. variotii were higher in wood trimmers than in other sawmill workers whose jobs had an assumed lower exposure to mould spores.
(18) Within a few days it would be full to its 300-tonne capacity and would ply its way back upriver into Peru, just like a dozen other barges loading up at sawmills on this bend in the river.
(19) The concentration of urinary chlorophenol was assayed for 230 sawmill workers.
(20) The police know this and the wood passes through,” admits Felipe Portocarrero, a powerfully built timber merchant sitting shirtless on a deckchair at a sawmill on the Yavari river, which marks the border between Peru and Brazil.