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• Exploring Virtual Mental Practice in Maintenance Task Training
  7/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article contributing to the general understanding of mental practice by investigating the utility of and participant reaction to a virtual reality maintenance training among underground coal mine first responders.
• Evaluating the Use of Stretchers in Two Mobile Refuge Alternatives
  7/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article by NIOSH discusses a study that evaluated the time required to move three types of stretchers into two commercially available refuge alternatives.
• Proximity Detection Zones: Designs to Prevent Fatalities Around Continuous Mining Machines
  6/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing the intelligent proximity detection system that uses zones to keep mine workers safe around continuous mining machines.
• Identification of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Mining
  6/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article examining the MSHA accident/injury/illness data from 2009 to 2013 to determine the most frequently reported work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the U.S. mining sector.
• New Improvements to MFIRE to Enhance Fire Modeling Capabilities
  6/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing NIOSH's mine fire simulation program, MFIRE, which is used as a standard for assessing and predicting the impact of a fire on the mine ventilation system and the spread of fire contaminants in coal and metal/nonmetal mines.
• Vertical Load Capacities of Roof Truss Cross Members
  5/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing laboratory tests that were conducted to determine the vertical load capacity and deflection of three different types of cross members used in the trusses of coal mine roof support.
• Modeling and Measurement of Radio Propagation in Tunnel Environments
  5/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article by NIOSH discusses a new, simple radio frequency RF testing system that can be conveniently built and used for measuring radio propagation in tunnels.
• Analysis of Physical Demands During Bulk Bag Closing and Sealing
  5/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article by NIOSH describing a study evaluating the physical demands involved with two bag closing methods and several sealing tools in order to provide recommendations to reduce exposure to risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders.
• Modeling Carbon Monoxide Spread in Underground Mine Fires
  5/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study that describes the computer modeling of how carbon monoxide moves through an underground mine ventilation network during a fire event.
• A Portable Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Instrument for Rapid Sampling and Analysis of Silicon-Containing Aerosols
  5/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article on a new portable instrument describes laboratory testing that demonstrated the instrument’s plausibility for identifying hazardous levels of silicon-containing compounds.