224 results for “General Electric”, page 8 of 12
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · September 13, 2021 · in the opinion
Vanni v. Honeywell International, Inc. (2021)
…Dr. Horn could not give the likelihood of someone in the general population just developing pericardial mesothelioma without exposure to asbestos. He estimates it would be some fraction of the eight. After listening to the testimony…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · July 15, 2020 · in the opinion
Coates v. Ford Motor Company (2020)
…of a summary judgment motion, as well as foregoing the ruling on such a motion either temporarily until later in the proceedings or for resolution by trial of the general issue, involves not only pure legal…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · February 25, 2010 · in the opinion
Smith v. Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Inc. (2010)
…cases of asbestosis and asbestos exposure, such that asbestos exposure in any amount other than general background levels would appear to be causative of mesothelioma,\[4\] we cannot read Borg-Warner, and the test announced therein…
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Court case · Utah Court of Appeals · April 4, 2013 · in the opinion
Riggs v. Asbestos Corp. Ltd. (2013)
…P.2d 629, 634 (Utah 1995) ("The general rule regarding statutes of limitations is that the limitation period begins to run [\67] when the last event necessary to complete the cause of action occurs."). In other…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Prevention of Asbestos Exposure in Latin America within a Global Public Health Perspective
…Supreme Court decision backing an asbestos ban. In parallel, continuous efforts should be made to stimulate the growth of competent and ethical researchers to convey adequate information to the scientific community and to the general public.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Chrysotile effects on the expression of anti-oncogene P53 and P16 and oncogene C-jun and C-fos in Wistar rats' lung tissues
…qRT-PCR. Our results found that chrysotile exposure leads the body weight to grow slowly and lung viscera coefficients to increase in a dose-dependent manner. General sample showed white nodules, punctiform asbestos spots, and irregular…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Long fibre asbestos in a chrysotile textile worker
…worker and a less pronounced but probably significant shift for the tremolite group. They noted general agreement that long fibres are associated with disease. On that basis they concluded that their findings offered an explanation for…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Bringing together evolution on serpentine and polyploidy: spatiotemporal history of the diploid-tetraploid complex of Knautia arvensis (Dipsacaceae)
…via independent polyplodization and hybridization. The complex eco-geographical pattern together with the incidence of both primary and secondary diploid-tetraploid contact zones makes K. arvensis a unique system for addressing general questions of polyploid research.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Cape Asbestos, Barking, health and environment: 1928-1946
…Barking, and that its exhaust ventilation was quite up to the general standard and constantly being improved. Reports on the factory environment and information on the health of Cape's workforce that are available for the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Work-related mesothelioma in Québec, 1967-1990
…year-exposure and 62% > or = 25 year-exposure). Analyses of the yearly incidence of new cases in each group documented the general incremental trend in all groups, with the sharpest rises in group 3…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Occurrence of heavy metal-resistance in microflora from serpentine soil of Andaman
…isolates were compared for Ni, Co and Cr resistance. Serpentine microflora was in general, highly resistant than non-serpentine ones and showed a metal-resistance profile of Cr > Ni > Co. Amongst the serpentine isolates…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Effects of asbestos on the random migration of rabbit alveolar macrophages
…indicates that fibers can be toxic for AM through extracellular membrane contact. In general the results from the viability studies paralleled the migration inhibition observations. None of the asbestos preparations induced a burst in the hexose…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Metaphase and anaphase analysis of V79 cells exposed to erionite, UICC chrysotile and UICC crocidolite
…for chrysotile and crocidolite than erionite. These results correlate with the higher tumorigenic potency of erionite. In general, fewer cells treated with erionite entered anaphase than those treated with the other two minerals. As a result…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
An exposure study of bystanders and workers during the installation and removal of asbestos gaskets and packing
…In most cases, the concentrations were not distinguishable from ambient levels of asbestos in the ships or the general environment. These results are not surprising given that asbestos fibers in gasket materials are encapsulated within a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Environmental contamination of chrysotile asbestos and its toxic effects on antioxidative system of Lemna gibba
…in the glutathione and ascorbate level might be considered as a biomarker of exposure to an unsafe environment because these are essential compounds of the general antioxidative strategy to overcome oxidative stress due to environmental constraints…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Osteopontin modulates inflammation, mucin production, and gene expression signatures after inhalation of asbestos in a murine model of fibrosis
…and cell cycle regulation. Although it is unclear whether the present findings are specific to chrysotile asbestos or would be observed after inhalation of other fibers in general, these results highlight new potential mechanisms and therapeutic…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
The combination of effects on lung cancer of cigarette smoking and exposure in quebec chrysotile miners and millers
…equivalent to exposure amounting to 700 million particles per cubic foot x years. The refutation of the multiplicative hypothesis in these data reinforces its inapplicability in general; but the additive hypothesis is not generally applicable either…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Adsorption of bovine serum albumin onto synthetic Fe-doped geomimetic chrysotile
…pyrolysis-gas chromatography), changed when the BSA was adsorbed on the nanofibres. In general, results suggested that minute amount (less than 1 wt%) of Fe doping in chrysotile affected the protein-nanofibre interactions, supporting the role…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 21, 2014 · in the opinion
Izell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2014)
…which may be as little as three months." Though acknowledging a "general inference that Crocidolite \[asbestos\] is more liable to produce mesothelioma," the report cautioned that "\[e\]xoneration of \[Union Carbide's\] Chrysotile \[asbestos\] has not…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 13, 1993 · in the opinion
Kurrack v. American Dist. Telegraph Co. (1993)
…asbestos paper was, in fact, the relevant product. Furthermore, as plaintiff correctly notes, interrogatories are properly given when they can serve as a check on the general verdict. (Saldana v. Wirtz Cartage Co. (1977), 55 Ill…