Workplace Safety & Health Essentials: Prevention to Ergonomics
Understanding Risk Prevention & Cycles
Risk prevention is a profession and set of activities aimed at preventing and avoiding accidents and occupational diseases. It primarily involves two major disciplines: industrial hygiene and industrial safety.
Defining Industrial Hygiene
Industrial hygiene focuses on identifying, evaluating, and controlling environmental factors or stresses arising in or from the workplace that may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort
Read MoreInnovations in Biological Engineering: Microbes, Design, and Health
Biomining: Harnessing Microbes for Mineral Extraction
One of the smallest representatives of life forms, bacteria, can be seen as a mixed blessing. They cause diseases in plants and animals, even human beings, such as tuberculosis and leprosy on one side, and they also convert milk into curd. In the last couple of decades, we have identified bacteria as miners. These diminutive diggers have become assets to the mining industry, eliminating traditional offensive methods which use explosives, toxic
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence Fundamentals: Concepts, Agents, and Algorithms
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the field of computer science dedicated to creating intelligent agents, which are systems that can reason, learn, and act autonomously. Essentially, it is about making computers think and behave like humans.
Key Features of Artificial Intelligence
- Learning: The ability to acquire information and rules for using the information. This includes memorizing specific instances and discovering new rules through experience.
- Reasoning: The capacity
Key Concepts in Environmental Health
The Water Cycle
Most of Earth’s water is in the oceans. The sun drives the water cycle by heating water, causing it to evaporate into the air. Ice and snow can also sublimate directly into water vapor. As air rises, it cools and condenses into clouds. Air currents move these clouds globally. Within clouds, tiny water particles collide, grow, and eventually fall as precipitation (rain, snow, etc.). Snow can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers, storing water for thousands of years. In warmer climates,
Read MoreUnderstanding Knowledge Representation and Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Representation in AI
Knowledge representation enables AI mechanisms to find efficient solutions. Key questions include: How to choose a formalism for simple translation from the real world? What representation allows for efficient usage?
Information vs. Knowledge
Information refers to basic, uninterpreted data used as input, such as blood test figures or chemical plant sensor data.
Knowledge is structured data modeling experience in a domain or interpretations of basic data. For example, interpreting
Read MoreCommon Health Conditions: Symptoms, Management, and Care
Asthma: Understanding Symptoms and Management
Definition of Asthma
Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition where airways narrow, swell, and produce excess mucus.
Classification of Asthma
- Seasonal Asthma: Some individuals cannot tolerate even minor changes in season (cold, hot, rain). Seasonal variations can trigger allergic reactions, leading to complications if not treated early.
- Allergic Asthma: Triggered by allergens such as pollen, animal dander, or dust.
- Occupational Asthma: Caused by exposure