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X2012

Please find below presentations from the X2012 Conference.  X2012 took place from the 2 - 5 July 2012 in Edinburgh,UK.   Presentations are only available if the author has given their permission.
 

Date Session Title 

2/7/12
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1a  
 

 
    

 

 

 SYN-JEM: Exposure modelling and elaboration of a quantitative job-exposure matrix for five lung carcinogens
Susan Peters
 

 Assigning levels of exposure to occupational carcinogens in CAREX Canada
Cheryl E. Peters
 

 A job exposure matrix to assess occupational exposure in a population-based study in northern Europe studying new-onset of asthma.
 Linnae Lillienberg 

 A total approach generic job exposure matrix in Spain: MatEmESp Project
Ana M Garcia
 

1b
 
 
 
 
 

 New measurement indices for the dustiness nanopowders to better assess and control exposure
Garry Burdet
 

 Assessment of the dustiness of Carbon Nanotubes using the Shaker-Method.
Volker Bachmann
 

 Task Based Exposure Assessment of Nanoparticle in the Workplace
 Chungsik Yoon 

 Exposure modelling of engineered nanoparticles.
 Laura MacCalman 

1c
 
 
 

 Application of Global Positioning System (GPS) for Better Classification of Time Location in Exposure Assessment exposure scenarios.
 Kiyoung Lee 

 Spatiotemporal Profiles of Particulate Matter Exposure Among Asthmatic Children.
 John Volckens 

 Development of a GIS-based platform to map and analyze environmental health inequalities in the exposome concept context.
 Julien Caudeville 

 Geographic Information Systems in pesticides exposures prediction: validation by dust sample.
 Remi Beranger 

2a
 
 
 
 

 Tools of the Trade for Planning of Exposure Assessment by Biological Monitoring Following a Chemical Incident.
 Paul T J Scheepers 

 Use of PBTK modeling for reconstruction of chemical exposure from disasters.
Ad Ragas
 

 Environmental health aspects of disaster management: The Flemish approach.
Roel Smolders
 
 

 Post-disaster management of the environmental and health impacts of technological accidents in France.
Yvon Motreff
 
 

  Development of an Infectious Risk Assessment Model for Outbreak Prediction.
Yuli Huang
 
 

2b
 
 
 
 

  Work-related Stressors and Their Effects on Salivary Cortisol During Firefighting.
Tracy Kirkham
 
 

 Development and validation of an autoquestionnaire for Sick Building Syndrome.
Tom Geens
 

 Measuring the psychological and physiological effects of acoustical environments on nurses in British Columbia healthcare facilities.
George Astrakianakis
 

  Estimation of Total Urban Noise Exposures and Hearing Loss in New York City.
Richard Neitzel
 
 

  New developments in Video exposure monitoring of non-chemical exposure.
Petra Beurkens-Comuth
 
 

2c
 
 
 
 
 

  A structured approach for tiered aggregate exposure assessment.
Sally Spankie
 
 

  BDE-209 case study: demonstrating the TAGS tiered approach to aggregate exposure.
Christa Cornelis
 
 

  The Tiered Aggregate Exposure Assessment (TAGS) platform: the case of population exposure to PBA.
Dimosthenis Sarigiannis
 
 

  How to aggregate exposure to consumer products?
Martine Bakker
 
 

  A tiered approach to modeling aggregate consumer exposure: case study on decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5).
Tatsiana Dudzina
 
 

  Aggregate exposure of the German population with Diethylhexyl Phthalate (DEHP).
Astrid Heiland
 
 

3/7/12
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

3a
 
 
 
 

 Gender differences in occupational exposures assessed by experts in a community based case-control study of lung cancer.
 Aude Lacourt 

  Identifying gender differences in tasks within the same job using job- and industry-specific modules within case-control studies.
Sarah J Locke
 
 

  Aggregation of exposure level and probability into a single metric in job-exposure matrices creates bias.
Igor Burstyn
 
 

 Differences in coverage between two US OSHA exposure databases: The case of lead and cadmium.
Melissa Freisen
 
 

  Impact of aggregating exposure information from cases and control when building a population-specific job-exposure matrix from past expert evaluations.
Jerome Lavoue
 
 

3b
 
 
 
 

 Evaluation of a mechanistic model (SprayExpo) for predicting aerosol exposure during spray application.
Martin Tischer
 
 

 How accurate are exposure assessment methods for REACH.
 Jody Schinkel 

  Comparison between measurements and quantitative exposure assessments using Stoffenmanager and ART for multiple user.
Lennart Andersson
 
 

  The effect of personal protective equipment use on transfer efficiencies in inadvertent ingestion exposure.
Malanie Gorman Ng
 
 

3c
 
 
 
 

  Separating Uncertainty and Physiological Variability in Human PBPK modelling.
Dan Huizer
 
 

  A model for simulating the level of chemicals in blood and urine of human males, females, children, normal or obese, at different. exposure scenarios.
Frans Jongeneelen
 
 

  Pesticide exposure and urinary DAP metabolites among Thai farmers and their families.
Chalalai Hanchenlaksh
 
 

  Physico-Kinetic (PK) modelling for prediction of urinary levels after exposure to pesticides and estimation of external exposures for given urinary levels.
Laura MacCalman
 
 

  Exposure assessment of phthalates in French pregnant women using reverse dosimetry and biomonitoring data from the Elfe pilot study.
Florence Zeman
 
 

4a
 
 
 

 Lung cancer risks of welding in a pooled analysis of case-control studies.
Beate Pesch
 
 

 Maternal Agricultural Pesticide Exposures and Neonatal Neurobehavioral Impacts in Thailand.
Susan Woskie
 
 

  Exposure modeling of quartz in Swedish iron foundries for dose response analysis of cancer morbidity - external and internal comparison.
Lena Anderson
 
 

  Exposure to workplace acid mists alters the lung functions of the goldsmiths working in unorganized sectors of India.
Subhabrata Moitra
 
 

4b
 
 
 

  A novel exposure assessment method using molecular biology techniques to identify potential causes of cancer in meat slaughterhouse workers.
David McLean
 
 

  Environmental PM10, endotoxin and some marker organism levels associated with animal confinement buildings density.
Dick Heederik
 
 

  Characterization of particles generated from fungal cultures.
Anani K J Afanou
 
 

4c
 
 
 
 

 Respirable silica dust exposure at a Swedish porcelain factory 1971-2006.
Pernilla Wiebert
 
 

  Determinants of respirable crystalline silica (RCS) exposures among stonemasons involved in stone restoration work.
Catherine Healy
 
 

  Occupational exposure to respirable dust and crystalline silica; a baseline exposure assessment in the construction industry.
Erik van Deurssen
 
 

 Quantitative assessment of historical silica dust exposure among a cohort of Chinese pottery workers, tungsten miners and tin miners.
Yi Sun
 
 

  Linear and logistic regression defining determinants of quartz exposure during farming.
Andrew Swanepoel
 
 

5a     
 
 

  The ‘take home’ burden of workplace sensitisers: flour exposure in bakers’ families.
Nara Tagiyeva
 
 

 Assessment of deposited surface of airborne ultrafine particles from welding processes.Joao Gomes  

  Use of comprehensive measurement strategies to influence behaviour change.
Chris Keen
 
 

5b
 
 

  Modelling vs. measuring drinking contaminants for causal inference: potential bias from use of biomarkers in studies of perfluorinated compounds.
Tony Fletcher
 
 

  Study of the impact of environmental exposures to endocrine disruptors on the risk of breast cancer: study of dioxin exposure of women in the E3N cohort.
Jeffrey Blain
 
 

  Health effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the home: a comparison of two exposure metrics.
Karen Galea
 
 

5c
 
 

 Accuracy of Priors in Bayesian Exposure Assessment.
Gurumurthy Ramachandran
 

  Bayesian updating for exposure assessment: a case study in industrial printing.
Frederic Clerc
 
 

  Quantifying the error associated with assigning the mean of a similar exposed group to a single individual within that group. An exploration using an asbestos exposure database.
John Oudyk
 
 

6a
 
 

  NanoNextNL: Measuring exposure to MNO at different workplaces across the life cycle in the Netherlands.
Wouter Fransman
 
 

 Development and evaluation of a personal sampler for nanoparticle exposure assessment. 

John Volckens 

6b
 
 
 

  Routes of Exposure to Metal Working Fluids Caused by Use of Compressed Airlines.
Helena Senior
 
 

  Characterization and evaluation of variability in current exposure levels in the US trucking industry.
Jennifer Cavallari
 
 

  Development of a Cadmium Exposure Database from U.S. NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Reports.
Yu-Cheng Chen
 
 

  Variation within and between workers and within days at real time monitoring of wood dust.
Katja Hagstrom
 
 

6c
  
 
 
 

 Intera computational platform: a web-based tool for mechanistic exposure and risk assessment in indoor.
Dimosthenis Sarigiannis
 
 

  Mechanistic risk assessment of indoor pollutants: exposure to phthalates.
Katleen de Brouwere
 
 

  Integrated Exposure for Risk Assessment in Indoor Environments : Exposure to DMF.
Araceli Sanchez Jimanez
 
 

  Mechanistic risk assessment of indoor air pollutants - BTEX Europe-wide assessment.
Dimosthenis Sarigiannis
 
 

  Polybromodiphenyl ethers (PBDEs) exposure in French offices.
Celine Boudet
 
 

4/7/12
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

7a     
 
 
 
 

  Toenail metals as a biomarker for cumulative PM metal exposures in welders.
Jennifer Cavallari
 
 

 The Occupational Exposome approach. Dominique Bicout 

  Addressing the exposome by an integrative approach.
Dimosthenis Sarigaiannis
 
 

  Mycotoxins biomarkers: Do we have these exposure tools to better inform epidemiology?
Paul Turner
 
 

7b
 
 
 
 

  Developing a probabilistic exposure model for health impact assessment of interventions on isocyanate exposure.
Tim Meijster
 
 

  Impact of uncertainty in exposure data to silica in a health impact assessment among Dutch builders.
Rinke Klein Entink
 
 

  Retrospective assessment of inhalation exposure to benzene and VOC due to use of the solvent-based cleaning agent PX-10 in the Dutch Navy.
Martie van Tongeren
 
 

  Modelling inhalation exposure to concentration peaks of chemicals and healh risk assessment.
Renaud Persoons
 
 

  The implications of between-worker exposure variance when adjudicating compensation claims for occupational diseases.
John Oudyk
 
 

7c     
 
 
 
 

  Probabilistic methods for aggregate and cumulative exposure to pesticides.
Marc Kennedy
 
 

  Collection of farm survey data to inform risk assessment of non-dietary cumulative exposure to plant protection products.
Richard Glass
 
 

  Developing a new operator exposure model for plant protection products within the EU BROWSE project.
Henk Goede
 
 

  Novel Air Sampling Methods for Organophosphorus Pesticides in a Community-Based Project in Yakima Valley, Washington.
Jenna Armstrong
 
 

  Minimizing Dermal Exposure to Pesticide Applicators: Regulatory and Educational Approaches.
Richard Fenske
 
 

8a     
 
 
 
 

  A tiered approach for the assessment of exposure to airborne engineered nanomaterials.
Dirk Dahmann
 
 

  Stoffenmanager Nano: how (well) does it work?
Koen Verbist
 
 

  Evaluation of the nanoparticle exposure assessment algorithm in NanoSafer using rotating drum dustiness data and workplace measurements.
Keld Alstrup Jensen
 
 

  NanoBadge, a Tool for Engineered Nanoparticles Exposure Assessment.
Simon Clavaguera
 
 

  Risk Assessment And Risk Management Of Manufactured Nanomaterials, Control Banding Nanotool.
Paul Swuste
 
 

8b
 
 
 

  TUA: tool for integrated exposure scenarios management.
Alexandre Zenie
 
 

 ECETOC TRA version3 : Capturing and Consolidating Experiences of REACH.
Chris Money
 
 

  Generic Exposure Scenarios (GES): A practical approach to exposure assessment for regulatory risk assessment under REACH.
Alison Margary
 
 

  European Solvents Industry Group Consumer Generic Exposure Scenario Tool.
Michael Zelenka
 
 

8c
 
 
 
 

  Uncertainty and variability in probablistic exposure assessment evaluated with a 2D-Monte Carlo Method: PBDE as a model case.
Natalie von Goetz
 
 

 Principal Component Analysis as a tool to characterize sources of PCB exposures. Robert Herrick 

 Analyses of Real-Time Particle Surface Area and Number Concentration for Tasks Associated with the Production of Ultrafine Titanium Dioxide.
M Abbas Virji
 

9a
 
 
 

  The missing link: the role of biology in teaching occupational/environmental epidemiology.
David Kriebel
 
 

  Goldilocks and the three hypotheses: teaching exposure assessment in epidemiology.
Thomas J Smith
 
 

 Teaching exposure assessment for research and practice. 

Margaret Quinn 

9b
 
 

  A new modular computational tool for estimating concentrations, exposure and risks levels due to a source of local pollution.
Celine Boudet
 
 

  Actual data on the internal exposure of the general population to hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and p,p’-dichlorodiphenyl-dichloroethylene (DDE) in Germany.
Thomas Schettgen
 
 

  Indoor Air Pollutants (PM2.5, PM10 & NO2) Exposures and The Level of Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Among Primary Schoolchildren In Klang Valley, Malaysia.
Sharifah Nazariah Syed Noh
 
 

9c
 
 

 An aerosol sampler to estimate regional deposition within the human respiratory tract.
John Volckens
 
 

 Validation of a new device to measure second-hand smoke concentrations in homes.
Sean Semple
 
 

  Validation of a wearable real-time monitor of exposure to polycyclic aromatic compounds.
Susan Proctor
 
 

10a
 
 
 
 
 

  Using expert assessment in a national phone survey of exposure prevalence.
Lin Fritschi
 
 

 Advances in the retrospective assessment of occupational exposures: results from the multicentre European case-control study EPILYMPH. Pierluigi Cocco 

 Expert elicitation methods for reconstructing historical pesticide usage patterns.
Maartje Brouwer
 
 

  Validity of expert-based assessment based on questionnaire reponses to estimate exposure within the electroplating industry.
Yu-Cheng Chen
 
 

  Expert Judgments of Occupational Exposures to ELF Magnetic Fields.
Laurel Kincl
 
 

10b
 
 
 
 

 A side-by-side comparison of glove, rinse and wipe dermal sampling methods.
Melanie Gorman Ng
 
 

  Assessment of potential dermal exposure to PAH during creosote impregnation of wood.
Thomas Goeen
 
 

  Dermal Absorption Assessment of Metal Working Fuid Formulations.
Ronald Baynes
 
 

  Can be the skin an absorption way for the antimony trioxide?
Giovanni Maina
 
 

  Contributions of Inhalation and Dermal Exposure to Chlorpyrifos Dose in Egyptian Cotton Field Workers.
Richard Fenke
 
 

10c
 
 
 
 

  Quantitative assessment of exposure to stray static magnetic fields from MRI devices in clinical and research environments.
Kristel Schaap
 
 

  Human Exposures and Field Interactions in MRI.
Donald McRobbie
 
 

  A generic model for estimating exposure to MRI-related static magnetic fields and its use in reconstructing historical occupational exposure.
Yvette Christopher
 
 

  Engineering for safety assurance in MRI: analytical, numerical and experimental dosimetry.
Valentina Hartwig
 
 

  Symptoms, acute and chronic health effects of exposure to MRI-related electro magnetic fields.
Hans Kromhout
 
 

5/7/12
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

11a
 
 
 
 
 

  The GuLF Study (Gulf Long-Term Follow-Up Study) of Oil Spill Clean-Up Workers: Overview of the Exposure Assessment Methodology.
Patricia Stewart
 
 

  Gulf Long-Term Follow-Up Study (Gulf STUDY) for Oil Spill Clean-Up Workers: Exposure Assessment Issues and Considerations.
Mark Stenzel
 
 

  A strategy for assessing inhalation exposures in the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences study of adverse health effects among clean-up workers from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Gurumurthy Ramachandran
 
 

 Bias and error in several methods for estimating arithmetic means of heavily left-censored data and their application to data from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences GuLF Study.
Gurumurthy Ramachandran
 
 

  Development of the DREAM model for dermal exposure assessment of oil clean-up workers in the GuLF Study.
Melanie Gorman Ng
 
 

  Calibration of the DREAM model for the dermal exposure assessment of workers in the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences GuLF Study.
John Cherrie
 
 

11b
 
 
 
 

  Biomarkers for a cumulative exposure assessment of inhabitants exposed to PCB.
Thomas Goeen
 
 

  Human biomonitoring of parquet recliner after occupational exposure to aromatic diisocyanates.
Stephan Koslitz
 
 

 Hair as a biomarker for welder’s exposure to manganese.
Boris Reiss
 
 

  Manganese in blood as an exposure biomarker among newly exposed welders.
Marrisa Baker
 
 

  Human biomonitoring of PCB-exposures in blood of employees of a transformer-recycling company, their family members and employees of surrounding companies - the Dortmund PCB case.
Thomas Schettgen
 
 

11c
 
 
 
 
 

 

  Exposure of seaman to solar UV radiation – background, objective and measurements under real working conditions.
Gabriele Meyer
 
 

  Solar UV radiation exposure of seamen and measurements, calibration and model calculations of erythemal irradiance along ship routes
Uwe Feister
 
 

 How to reduce the burden of skin cancer? Protective clothing, sunscreens, shading, avoiding sunbed use. 

Mathieu Boniol 

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