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Climate Change and Human Health
Over the ages, human societies have altered local ecosystems and modified regional climates. Today, the human influence has attained a global scale. This reflects the recent rapid increase in population size, energy consumption, intensity of land use, international trade and travel, and other human activities. These global changes have heightened awareness that the long-term good health of ...
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Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services
Decades of evolving U.S. policy have led to three sectors providing weather services—NOAA (primarily the National Weather Service [NWS]), academic institutions, and private companies. This three-sector system has produced a scope and diversity of weather services in the United States second to none. However, rapid scientific and technological change is changing the capabilities of the sectors and ...
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The Burgundy Book Form of Contract Target Cost Contracts
The intention of a target cost contract is to encourage both parties in the contract to work together to find ways of carrying out the work as efficiently as possible and to be rewarded as a result (ie pain/gain share). This brand new Form of Contract sets out a procedure for arriving at a target cost that is sufficiently detailed to be used as the basis for effective control during the contract. ...
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Design of Hydraulic Gates
This book is based on the author's 35 years of experience as engineer of hydromechanical projects and describes, in a simple and objective manner, the principal aspects of the design, manufacture, erection and operation of hydraulic gates. Specific topics are analyzed in depth such as the selection of the gate type, the limits of their use, estimating their weight, the operative forces, the ...
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Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters
This volume distills what is known about environmental health during an emergency or disaster. It draws on results from the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and on experience with sustainable development between the two Earth Summits, in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg. It is intended for practitioners, as well as for policy-makers and researchers, and thus covers both general ...
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Human Thermal Environments: The Effects of Hot, Moderate, and Cold Environments on Human Health, Comfort and Performance, Second Edition
Our responses to our thermal environment have a considerable effect on our performance and behavior, not least in the realm of work. There has been considerable scientific investigation of these responses and formal methods have been developed for environmental evaluation and design. In recent years these have been developed to the extent that detailed national and international standards of ...
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Human Thermal Environments: The Effects of Hot, Moderate, and Cold Environments on Human Health, Comfort and Performance, Second Edition
Our responses to our thermal environment have a considerable effect on our performance and behavior, not least in the realm of work. There has been considerable scientific investigation of these responses and formal methods have been developed for environmental evaluation and design. In recent years these have been developed to the extent that detailed national and international standards of ...
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Handbook of Environmental Health, Fourth Edition, Volume I: Biological, Chemical, and Physical Agents of Environmentally Related Disease
The two-volume Handbook of Environmental Health has been a standard reference for over 23 years. The fourth edition continues to provide a basis for understanding the interactions between humans and the environment and how such interactions affect the health and welfare of individuals. Focusing on factors generally associated with the internal environment, Volume I provides a significant ...
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Biomarkers of Environmentally Associated Disease: Technologies, Concepts, and Perspectives
The end of the 20th century brought with it a revolution in molecular biology that culminated in advances such as the completion of the human genome. This has brought optimism to the fields of toxicology and environmental health, and the anticipation that molecular biomarkers might soon come of age and have a major impact on human and environmental health. Biomarker research is an area of current ...
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Pleasure With Products: Beyond Usability
The last five years have seen a major paradigm shift in the role of human factors in product design. Previously this was seen as pertaining almost exclusively to product usability, but new recognition is being given to "pleasure-based" human factors. This emphasizes the holistic nature of the experience of person-product interaction. While traditional human factors approaches tended to ...
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Ecological Dynamics on Yellowstone´s Northern Range
Ecological Dynamics on Yellowstone’s Northern Range discusses the complex management challenges in Yellowstone National Park. Controversy over the National Park Service’s approach of "natural regulation" has heightened in recent years because of changes in vegetation and other ecosystem components in Yellowstone's northern range. Natural regulation minimizes human impacts, including management ...
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Cancer and the Environment: Gene-Environment Interactions
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Safety Meetings for Health Care Workers
• Training your health care staff on the subject of safety has never been easier or more economical. With this comprehensive safety program, you get the materials to run an effective safety meeting on over 40 topics. • We provide everything you need to run a complete safety meeting. • No need to research topics, gather materials, or monitor new regs surrounding safety and health care … ...
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Consumer and Healthcare Packaging Standards - Print version
AVAILABLE IN PRINT or CD-ROM! This volume contains 85 of the latest standards on consumer and healthcare packaging. Standards cover: Flammability of Aerosol Products Water Vapor Transmission of Flexible Heat-Sealed Packages for Dry Products Minimum Application Torque of Type IA Child-Resistant Closures User Applied Drug Labels in ...
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Consumer and Healthcare Packaging Standards -CD-ROM
AVAILABLE IN PRINT or CD-ROM! This volume contains 85 of the latest standards on consumer and healthcare packaging. Standards cover: Flammability of Aerosol Products Water Vapor Transmission of Flexible Heat-Sealed Packages for Dry Products Minimum Application Torque of Type IA Child-Resistant Closures User Applied Drug Labels in ...
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SafetyQuick Employee Newsletter
Is simple to create your own safety newsletter with this easy-to-use software. • The step-by-step program shows you how to set up your own newsletter and offers an impressive library of safety articles and illustrations that you can choose from. • You will be able to create--in just minutes--a professional newsletter with articles written by leading editors. • Attractively designed ...
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Health Opportunities in Development
This manual presents in detail the principles of problem-based learning for the development of professional capacities to deal with issues of an intersectoral nature. Health is a cross-cutting issue in the development activities of many other public sectors. Both health sector professionals and professionals in the other sectors require to develop skills allowing them to successfully engage in ...
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Building a Culture of Respect: Managing Bullying at Work
Bullying is an increasing problem in the workplace. It is estimated that five million workers are bullied each year in the UK, and that one in four employees is aware of colleagues being bullied. Bullying creates significant health problems for employees and, despite this, there is a conspicuous absence of published material on why these behaviors occur, how their occurrence can be reduced, and ...
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Building a Culture of Respect: Managing Bullying at Work
Bullying is an increasing problem in the workplace. It is estimated that five million workers are bullied each year in the UK, and that one in four employees is aware of colleagues being bullied. Bullying creates significant health problems for employees and, despite this, there is a conspicuous absence of published material on why these behaviors occur, how their occurrence can be reduced, and ...
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