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Risk Analysis of a Fuel Storage Terminal Using HAZOP and FTA
2017
[EN] The size and complexity of industrial chemical plants, together with the nature of the products handled, means that an analysis and control of the risks involved is required. This paper presents a methodology for risk analysis in chemical and allied industries that is based on a combination of HAZard and OPerability analysis (HAZOP) and a quantitative analysis of the most relevant risks through the development of fault trees, fault tree analysis (FTA). Results from FTA allow prioritizing the preventive and corrective measures to minimize the probability of failure. An analysis of a case study is performed; it consists in the terminal for unloading chemical and petroleum products, and t…
The Impact of the Direct Participation of Workers on the Rates of Absenteeism in the Spanish Labor Environment.
2020
The aim of this research was to study the relationship between the different levels of direct participation of workers (passive, consultative or active-delegated) in risk prevention management with the levels of absenteeism in Spain. To this end, a transversal study was carried out using microdata from the Second European Survey of Companies on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER-2-Spain, 2014) with a master population of 3162 work centres. A multinomial logistic regression model was carried out, with the dependent variable being the levels of absenteeism and the independent variables, the participation indicators and preventive management, calculating the adjusted odds ratio (aOR) between all t…
[Recommendations for end-of-life care in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].
2009
Over the last 20 years, advances in the treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have improved survival even among patients in the most advanced stages of the disease, such as those requiring domiciliary oxygen therapy.1,2 This improvement—in principle a positive development—has given rise to considerable clinical problems associated with the establishment of a therapeutic ceiling and the difficulty of determining prognosis in some of these patients. In this situation, the clinician should consider introducing palliative care, that is, care aimed at improving symptom control, communication, physical activity, and emotional support, in order to achieve the best…
Asthma Visits to Emergency Rooms and Soybean Unloading in the Harbors of Valencia and A Coruna, Spain
1999
Soybean unloading in the harbor of Barcelona, Spain, has been associated with large increases in the numbers of asthma patients treated in emergency departments between 1981 and 1987. in this study, the association between asthma and soybean unloading in two other Spanish cities, Valencia and A Coruna, was assessed, Asthma admissions were retrospectively identified for the period 1993-1995, and harbor activities were investigated in each location. Two approaches were used to assess the association between asthma and soybean unloading: One used unusual asthma days (days with an unusually high number of emergency room asthma visits) as an effect measure, and the other estimated the relative i…
Ecological Analysis of the Helminth Community of Microtus lusitanicus (Gerbe, 1879) (Rodentia) in Asturias (NW Spain)
2021
Simple Summary The Lusitanian pine vole is an endemic rodent of the Iberian Peninsula, which has a burrowing behaviour and prefers to live underground. It feeds on bark and roots causing severe damage to trees. In Asturias (NW Spain), this species is considered a pest causing economic losses in apple orchards, damaging the tree, and sometimes even causing its death. With the aim to shed light on the helminth community of this rodent pest species and to elucidate which intrinsic and extrinsic factors affect its helminth species, a faunistic-ecological study was carried out. For this purpose, our own collection of 710 voles from several orchards of various locations in Asturias was used. The …
Security rights and insolvency law in the Roman legal system
2017
This chapter contains an analysis in depth of the Roman law system on security rights in rem (Spain, Italy, France).
536. Internal and international mobility of Romanian immigrants during the crisis
2016
Para paliar los efectos de la crisis económico-laboral, iniciada en 2007, los inmigrantes han desplegado diversas estrategias, entre las que destaca la movilidad geográfica. El artículo indaga en las migraciones que en los últimos años realizan los rumanos en España y desde España, para lo que se utilizan dos fuentes de información complementarias: la estadística y los testimonios de los inmigrantes. Los resultados de la investigación muestran el notable aumento de la circulación interior de trabajadores durante los primeros años y el progresivo aumento de las salidas, ya sea para retornar al lugar de origen, emigrar a otros países o desplazarse entre diferentes lugares. En general, estos d…
Fra Palermo e Napoli. Attività musicali presso la Reale Cappella Palatina di Palermo
2015
Nel panorama palermitano di Cinque e Seicento appare indiscusso il ruolo musicale della Real Cappella di San Pietro, comunemente nota come Cappella Palatina. Il prestigio dell’istituzione fu tale da spingere Ottavio Tiby, musicologo palermitano, ad occuparsene per primo in un saggio del 1952, 'La musica nella Real Cappella Palatina', per molti anni unico esempio di analisi delle attività musicali nelle istituzioni ecclesiastiche cittadine. Recenti indagini condotte presso l’Archivio di Stato di Palermo hanno tuttavia integrato le informazioni in nostro possesso, dimostrando come le ricerche di Tiby avessero tralasciato una parte della documentazione, offrendo un quadro sostanzialmente incom…
Le cappelle musicali a Palermo tra Cinque e Seicento: nuovi documenti sulla Palatina
2017
Individuare le cappelle musicali operanti a Palermo fra Rinascimento e Barocco non è certo un compito facile. Se guardiamo al contesto della produzione musicale, non possiamo non riconoscere il ruolo vitale svolto dagli ordini religiosi nel promuovere e diffondere attivamente la musica in tutti gli strati sociali. Difatti, tali comunità erano coinvolte in modo più o meno continuativo nella promozione delle attività musicali, spesso attraverso il contributo delle cappelle di musica. Eppure, nella Palermo di Cinque e Seicento, gli organici musicali operanti nelle istituzioni ecclesiastiche assumevano forme fluide e non codificate. Nonostante ciò, numerose fonti alludono alla presenza di corpi…
Fossil micromammals of the early Pliocene locality of Almenara MB: biostratigraphical and palaeoecological implications
2020
In this work, we have studied the fossil rodent, insectivore and chiropteran faunas, of a new locality from the AlmenaraCasablanca karstic complex, named ACB MB (Castellón, east Spain). We consider an early Ruscinian age for this site, close to the Miocene/Pliocene boundary, and infer warm and relatively humid conditions from the analysis of the micromammal assemblage. We remark the presence of two species of Eliomys in ACB MB, rare in localities of this age, and the lack of any gerbil remains, fossil markers of faunal interchanges between Africa and Europe in the context of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, recorded in the nearby late Miocene site of ACB M