human health Articles
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Copper in human health
Copper is an essential mineral for human health and at the same time can be toxic, depending upon the amounts ingested. Copper is associated with bone health, immune function and increased frequency of infections, cardiovascular risk and alterations in cholesterol metabolism. Its metabolism is tightly intertwined with other microminerals and its deficiency is known to impair iron mobilisation, ...
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Environment and human health
In 2010, the comprehensive European environment - State and outlook 2010 report showed that environmental policies have delivered substantial progress in improving the state of the environment in Europe. However, it also stressed that major environmental challenges remain. Water and air pollution have declined but not enough to achieve good ecological quality in all water bodies or to ensure ...
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The issue of asymmetrical growth in Specialised Biotechnology Firms in the USA and the UK
There are over 5000 Specialised Biotechnology Firms (SBFs) in the world, out of which at least 1500 are in the USA, 400 in Canada, and a similar number in the UK. Within this group of SBFs rapid growth is concentrated in some 10% of the firms. This paper compares the growth patterns of SBFs in the USA and the UK, and with the previous results for Canada. These three countries represent nearly 50% ...
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Hospital Waste Causing Havoc with Human Health
Hospital waste has become a very important source of spreading infection in the society. It is not that it was not so earlier but the population explosion has reduced the natural barrier and made the spread of infection that much easier. Moreover the generation of waste – per-capita has grown exponentially. Hospitals of today, which were always considered a seat of healing, have become seat of ...
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How Regulations’ ‘List Envy’ Impacts Manufacturers
Product Manufacturers often ask whether they should be concerned when a chemical used in the production of one or more of their products becomes the subject of enhanced regulatory review for one reason or another. This question is frequently raised in the context of California Proposition 65 listings; chemicals listed under Proposition 65 become subject to significantly greater scrutiny largely ...
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Dietary fibre and human health
Food habits of new lifestyle have contributed to the appearance of chronic diseases such as obesity or cardiovascular diseases, which are mainly due to bad eating habits. Solutions can be found in providing the consumers with functional foods and health capability. Such food is rich in dietary fibre, with specific physicochemical behaviour and healthy properties. Dietary fibre rich food products ...
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Should sustainability be the goal rather than environmental protection?
This article looks at the attention sustainability and related concepts are receiving at all levels of government in the United States and asks whether sustainability should replace the current goals of environmental programs to protect human health and the environment. While the author says he does not believe such goals should be supplanted by sustainability goals, he says such initiatives can ...
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Assessing the risk of exogenously consumed pharmaceuticals in land-applied human urine
Once separated, the use of urine as fertilizer is a particular attractive proposition and can significantly mitigate the release of nutrients and pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) to the environment. In the current study, a simple methodological framework is proposed for assessing risks that are posed by the land application of urine, which contains PhACs, in terms of 6 selected ...
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Facts and Consequences
Another view -- Jon Entine's case is compelling, and his article raises a fundamental question that has been largely lost in the bisphenol A debate. The question is how to balance the need to feed the world by maintaining a safe food supply system with the desire to be cautious in protecting human health from chemical exposures that may pose ...
By Acta Group
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Inadequate housing and health: an overview
For many years, the housing environment has been acknowledged as one of the main settings that affect human health. Living and housing conditions are the basis of many factors influencing residential health. Still, to date there is no commonly agreed upon definition of 'healthy housing', and there are still major gaps in the knowledge on how housing conditions may affect health. Epidemiological ...
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Quality factors of the residential environment in urban planning
Urban planning could improve a wide range of residential environment quality aspects. The variety of valuation in the planning process is always subjective. The best assessor of the established product is the resident himself. A scientific study completed by the authors was an attempt to find a way to determinate the efficiency of urban handling and reconstructions. A hypothesis was formed on the ...
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Public Health Ecology
The objective of this column is to offer public health ecology as a method to conceptualize the deleterious connections between land conservation and human health. A vital part of our efforts in sustainability and creating ecologically sensitive and health-supporting environments is the conservation and rehabilitation of the green infrastructure that delivers not only basic environmental needs ...
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Development of a rational housing model: the Lithuanian case
The aim of this paper is to develop a theoretical model for complex analysis of rational housing, according to variable factors of micro- and macro-levels of surroundings, describe them comprehensively by taking into consideration the experiences and knowledge gained in advanced countries and countries in transition. The main findings are: theoretical model of complex analysis of rational ...
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SeeFactor CT3 for Cervical Spine Imaging - Sylvan palmer, MD Mission Hospital – Orange County, CA - Case Study
Spine (Below) Currently, Physicians see this: ...
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bit.bio CEO features in Charles River Laboratories Disruptor series
bit.bio CEO Mark Kotter is featured as part of the Disruptor series from Charles River Laboratories (CRL). The series, created by CRL, celebrates the work of their partners, engaging in meaningful conversation about the current state of human health and future of scientific innovation and its impact. Mark discusses bit.bio's software approach to biology and how human cells that are programmed ...
By bit.bio
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Housing maintenance management: the key-factor when creating healthy environment
Reports on housing discuss lack of maintenance of dwellings especially in shared ownership. These reports rarely discuss the role of owners when housing stock and relevant services are fully privatised. The paper discusses the role of residents in creating healthy and habitable environment in the situation of massive home-ownership. Contemporary housing management and maintenance requires ...
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Derivation of Human Health‐Based Ambient Water Quality Criteria: A Consideration of Conservatism and Protectiveness Goals
Under the terms of the Clean Water Act, criteria for the protection of human health [Human Health Ambient Water Quality Criteria (HHWQC)] are traditionally derived using United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)‐recommended equations that include parameters for exposure assessment. To derive “adequately protective” HHWQC, USEPA proposes the use of default values for these ...
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EPA Strategic Plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed its Strategic Plan to serve as a blueprint for taking the Agency into the 21st century. Our Strategic Plan charts our course for protecting human health and the environment through 2005. It lays out the Agency's ten long-term goals and guides us in establishing the annual goals we will need to meet along the way. It allows us to measure how ...
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Ventilation for human health and safety in schools and offices
Providing indoor air quality to meet the safety of the occupants is a daunting task—at best. Ventilation –that is—supplying both outside air and re-circulated are at a rate that the majority of occupants of a classroom, gymnasium, office, or sports arena, would find safe and comfortable has been undertaken by such professional groups as ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, ...
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The disappearance of dedicated biotechnology firms in Canada
The present paper has the objective of understanding the disappearance of biotechnology firms. To accomplish this objective, a sample was built from 552 firms operating in Canada between 1996 and 2010. The results reveal that disappearance is not only due to filing for bankruptcy, but also due to change in firms' names, as well as mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Statistical tests further show ...
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