Seasonal variations in work-related health effects in swine farm workers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The aim of the project was to investigate whether there were diminished health effects in swine farm workers during summer compared with winter, as seasonal differences in concentrations of bioaerosols have been reported. Twenty-four workers were visited once during each season. Before and after a work shift, they underwent lung function testing and blood sampling. During work, they wore personal air sampling equipment. The mean endotoxin exposure of the workers was highest during winter (25,690 vs. 6,553 EU/m(3); p = 0.004). Although exposures to endotoxin and CO(2) varied between the seasons, no differences in lung function were found between them. White blood cell concentration increased over the work shift from 5.74-6.82 in winter (p < 0.0001) and from 5.80-6.38 in summer (p = 0.014). These increases differed between the two seasons (p = 0.032). Plasma tumour necrosis factor concentrations fell over the work shift only during winter (1.34-1.24 pg/ml (p = 0.03) (p = 0.014 for the difference between seasons). Plasma interleukin-6 increased over the work shift independently of season (p = 0.0006). The study supported our hypothesis of adverse effects on lung function and immune system, but less so during summer than during winter among Quebec swine farm workers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".