THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS OF THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SICK BUILDING SYNDROME

The significance of psychosocial factors of the working environment in the development of sick building syndrome

Introduction: Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a medical condition in which people in a certain buildings suffer from symptoms of illness or feeling unwell.The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of exposure of the employees of public institutions from the city of Osijek to harmful psychosocial factors of the working environment, to ass

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A Spatial Queuing-Based Algorithm for Multi-Robot Task Allocation

Multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is an important area of research in autonomous multi-robot systems.The main problem in MRTA is to allocate a set of tasks to a set of robots so that the tasks can be completed by the robots while ensuring that a certain metric, such as the time required to complete all tasks, or the 24" Barstool distance traveled,

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The Borax Method of Gold Extraction for Small-Scale Miners

Background.More than ten million small-scale miners (SSM) worldwide use mercury to extract gold, releasing large amounts of the toxic element into the environment.Alternatives to mercury have been suggested over the years to little avail.A group of miners in the Philippines has demonstrated that borax, when used as a flux for smelting gold out of h

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