Impacts of Activities in Crushing Plant on Environment and Occupational Health of Workers Involved

Abstract With the development of societies there is a growing demand for raw materials for the construction industry, among which the crushed materials existing in the various categories, as set down the specifications of the services of competent bodies. In the long term and as a result of overuse such demands lead to exhaustion of mines and environmental degradation. These materials are produced in crushing plants, which have characteristics of development of its activities, being an aggressive environment for the people involved and, likewise, to the surrounding environment, deteriorating air, water and soil. As for the workers, since the production process, may present in the medium and long term, the emergence of so-called occupational diseases or occupational diseases, these diseases that can lead people to the inability to work and even death. It should be noted that occupational diseases relating to mineral extraction are properly characterized in the literature. In Brazil there's labor and welfare legislation they impose on public and private sectors, the zeal with health workers, and the non-compliance, characterizes the disrespect for life and health of employees, liable to punishment. Likewise, today, there is a growing concern in the world, both in public and private sectors, about the legacy of extractive activities, the need to reassess the system of production and exploitation of mineral resources used to make it sustainable and ensure the existence of future generations, compared to its current unsustainable, and especially with regard to the costs involved. The aim of this study is the importance of the process of comminution in the environment and humans. It will use a literature review, theoretical and descriptive method, as well as statistics from the Ministry of Social Security in Brazil. The reduction of environmental degradation and occupational diseases of workers require more appropriate production techniques as well as major prevention strategies. To do so, you should seek the development of new demands in the area of construction compatible with the reduced use of mineral inputs and labor. Keywords: Environment, crushing facilities, safety, occupational diseases

Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events

In 2011, one of the authors (DJB) published a report of nine experiments in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology purporting to demonstrate that an individual\u2019s cognitive and affective responses can be influenced by randomly selected stimulus events that do not occur until after his or her responses have already been made and recorded, a generalized variant of the phenomenon traditionally denoted by the term precognition. To encourage replications, all materials needed to conduct them were made available on request. We here report a meta-analysis of 90 experiments from 33 laboratories in 14 countries which yielded an overall effect greater than 6 sigma, z = 6.40, p = 1.2 7 10 with an effect size (Hedges\u2019 g) of 0.09. A Bayesian analysis yielded a Bayes Factor of 5.1 7 10 , greatly exceeding the criterion value of 100 for \u201cdecisive evidence\u201d in support of the experimental hypothesis. When DJB\u2019s original experiments are excluded, the combined effect size for replications by independent investigators is 0.06, z = 4.16, p = 1.1 7 10 , and the BF value is 3,853, again exceeding the criterion for \u201cdecisive evidence.\u201d The number of potentially unretrieved experiments required to reduce the overall effect size of the complete database to a trivial value of 0.01 is 544, and seven of eight additional statistical tests support the conclusion that the database is not significantly compromised by either selection bias or by intense \u201cp -hacking\u201d\u2014the selective suppression of findings or analyses that failed to yield statistical significance. P-curve analysis, a recently introduced statistical technique, estimates the true effect size of the experiments to be 0.20 for the complete database and 0.24 for the independent replications, virtually identical to the effect size of DJB\u2019s original experiments (0.22) and the closely related \u201cpresentiment\u201d experiments (0.21). We discuss the controversial status of precognition and other anomalous effects collectively known as psi

PUBLIC FINANCING OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES

Healthcare in Poland is mainly financed by public sector entities, among them the National Health Fund (NFZ), state budget and local government budgets. The task of the National Health Fund, as the main payer in the system, is chiefly currently financing the services. The state budget plays a complementary role in the system, and finances selected groups of services, health insurance premiums and investments in healthcare infrastructure. The basic role of the local governments is to ensure access to the services, mostly by performing ownership functions towards healthcare institutions

On the genesis of computer forensis

This thesis presents a coherent set of research contributions to the new discipline of computer forensis. It analyses emergence of computer forensis and defines challenges facing this discipline, carries forward research advances in conventional methodology, introduces novel approach to using virtual environments in forensis, and systemises the computer forensis body of knowledge leading to the establishment of tertiary curriculum. The emergence of computer forensis as a separate discipline of science was triggered by evolution and growth of computer crime. Computer technology reached a stage when a conventional, mechanistic approach to collecting and analysing data is insufficient: the existing methodology must be formalised, and embrace technologies and methods that will enable the inclusion of transient data and live systems analysis. Further work is crucial to incorporate advances in related disciplines like computer security and information systems audit, as well as developments in operating systems to make computer forensics issues inherent in their design. For example: it is proposed that some of the features offered by persistent systems could be built into conventional operating systems to make illicit activities easier to identify and analyse. The analysis of permanent data storage is fundamental to computer forensics practice. There is very little finalised, and a lot still to be discovered in the conventional computer forensics methodology. This thesis contributes to formalisation and improved integrity of forensic handling of data storage by: formalising methods for data collection and analysis in NTFS (Microsoft file system) environment: presenting safe methodology for handling data backups in order to avoid information loss where Alternate Data Streams (ADS) are present: formalising methods of hiding and extracting hidden and encrypted data. A significant contribution of this thesis is in the field of application of virtualisation, or simulation of the computer in the virtual environment created by the underlying hardware and software, to computer forensics practice. Computer systems are not easily analysed for forensic purpose, and it is demonstrated that virtualisation applied in computer forensics allows for more efficient and accurate identification and analysis of the evidence. A new method is proposed where two environments used in parallel can bring faster and verifiable results not dependent on proprietary, close source tools and may lead to gradual shift from commercial Windows software to open source software (OSS). The final contribution of this thesis is systemising the body of knowledge in computer forensics, which is a necessary condition for it to become an established discipline of science. This systemisation led to design and development of tertiary curriculum in computer forensics illustrated here with a case study of computer forensics major for Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Western Sydney. All genesis starts as an idea. A natural part of scientific research process is replacing previous assumptions, concepts, and practices with new ones which better approximate the truth. This thesis advances computer forensis body of knowledge in the areas which are crucial to further development of this discipline. Please note that the appendices to this thesis consist of separately published items which cannot be made available due to copyright restrictions. These items are listed in the PDF attachment for reference purposes

Self-Perception: An alternative interpretation of cognitive dissonance phenomena

A theory of self-perception is proposed to provide an alternative interpretation for several of the major phenomena embraced by Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance and to explicate some of the secondary patterns of data that have appeared in dissonance experiments. It is suggested that the attitude statements which comprise the major dependent variables in dissonance experiments may be regarded as interpersonal judgments in which the observer and the observed happen to be the same individual and that it is unnecessary to postulate an aversive motivational drive toward consistency to account for the attitude change phenomena observed. Supporting experiments are presented, and metatheoretical contrasts between the "radical " behavioral approach utilized and the phenomenological approach typified by dissonance theory are discussed

HvZ Website: The Re-Engineering

As part of our Software Design and Development class, we were given a customer and tasked with providing them a product that they specifically request. Our customer was the Humans vs Zombies (HvZ) student group here on campus. They are a group that periodically plays a campus-wide game of tag using their own online resources, and they requested that we provide them a new, updated website. Their problem was that they needed to both update their site and acquire a more maintable version. The current site that they own now is three years old with code that is difficult to decipher

When we do wrong: Can psychological flexibility transform transgression-specific guilt and shame into genuine self-forgiveness?

This item is only available electronically.Self-forgiveness has the potential to ameliorate distressing effects of guilt and shame elicited by transgressing personally held standards. Yet, the practice of self-forgiveness is equally associated with beneficial, harmful and self-limiting outcomes. Recent conceptualisations of selfforgiveness bear striking similarities to psychological flexibility, the central mechanism of change in the widely-used mainstream therapeutic approach that is Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT). Given the paucity of literature examining psychological flexibility and selfforgiveness concurrently, this study draws on ACT theory and literature, to test hypotheses on whether psychological flexibility may facilitate authentic self-forgiveness. A correlational design was employed. A cross-sectional sample of N=132 individuals (55.3% female), aged between 18 and 77 years (M = 34.48, SD = 13.03) was recruited from college undergraduates and the wider population. After briefly describing a specific wrongdoing, participants answered demographic and offence-specific questions in addition to completing self-report measures relating to guilt, shame, psychological flexibility and self-forgiveness. Main study variables demonstrated associations as expected. Mediation analyses conducted with two predictors, guilt and shame, and self-forgiveness as the outcome revealed psychological flexibility significantly mediated the relation between shame and shame-infused guilt on self-forgiveness. Outcomes with respect to shame-free guilt, however were non-significant. Post-hoc analyses highlight the potential importance of the values/committed action sub-process of psychological flexibility when targeting the effects of shame and guilt through self-forgiveness. Implications, limitations and future directions are discussed.Thesis (B.PsychSc(Hons)) -- University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 201