... abusive husbands and elevated HIV transmission within abusive relationships This suggests that IPV functions both as a risk marker and as a risk factor for HIV among women [15] In an effort to explain ... implications of these for HIV risk, prevention and care? This paper seeks to move beyond the epidemiology and the measurement of behaviours and associations and enable us to understand these empirical ... take the risk of displaying signs of non-conformity and resistance and of bucking the patriarchal trend of passively subordinating themselves to men What are the implicationsfor prevention and care?...
... procedure forrisk assessments performed for the Oak Ridge Reservation is contained in Risk Assessment Program (1997) 2.7.3 REFERENCE SITES AND REFERENCE INFORMATION When performing a risk assessment, ... the maximum baseline risk, andecological risks will decline in the future and need not be assessed However, separate ecologicalrisk assessments should be performed if these risks could increase ... to ecologicaland health risks: contaminated media, routes of exposure, and receptors The conceptual model forecological risks must be consistent with the conceptual model for human health risks...
... useful for screening assessments, but the dissolved form is appropriate for definitive risk assessments of aquatic biota for two reasons First, the form in the exposure assessment should match the form ... useful for scoping and screening assessments but are unlikely to be acceptable for definitive assessments Two different expressions of sediment contamination are commonly used in ecologicalrisk assessments: ... total metal analyses were performed in any case for the assessment of risks from human and wildlife drinking water Speciation should be considered for both inorganic and organic chemicals that...
... REPORTING ECOLOGICAL RISKS The form in which ecological risks are reported is an often neglected aspect of the practice of ecologicalrisk assessment The EPA internal guidance forrisk characterization ... Reasonable, and Consistent Risk Characterizations For clarity: • Be brief; avoid jargon • Make language and organization understandable to risk managers and the informed layperson • Fully discuss and ... the risk manager in making a remedial decision and to promote understanding by stakeholders and the public The risk characterization should have determined, for each assessment endpoint, which risks...
... Risk to an ecological component of a site that has extraordinary local value Intermediate ecologicalrisk • Ecologicalrisk of magnitude between de minimis and de manifestis risk De minimis ecological ... 9.4) For example, if both human health andecological risks are de minimis, remediation is not necessary if the methods and results of the risk assessment are acceptable to the risk managers and ... requires a complex balancing of risks: ecological vs human health risks, baseline contaminant risks vs remedial risks, and current risks vs future, land-use-dependent risks (with potentially different...
... different role in ecologicalrisk assessments than they in human health risk assessments For human health risk assessments, remediation depends on the land-use scenario because land use determines ... based on ecologicalrisk or even what level of protection is analogous to the 10-6 riskfor human carcinogens (See Section 9.2.3 for a discussion of balancing health andecological risks.) PRGs ... exposure depends on land use, and risk- based remediation should depend on land use In ecologicalrisk assessments, three issues must be considered with respect to post-remedial land use What habitat...
... intensive, and expensive 10.2.3 ASSESSMENT PHASE The assessment phase is equivalent to the analyses of exposure and effects and the risk characterization in a conventional ecologicalrisk assessment ... as tiered assessments with increasingly rigorous analysis NRDAs might benefit from the logic of the ecologicalrisk framework and from the ability to adopt risk assessments performed for the remedial ... adjunct to risk assessment, NRDA andecologicalrisk assessment practices may converge The NRDA process is particularly problematical for federal agencies that have contaminated sites for which...
... Carlo Hum Ecol Risk Assess 2:627–1037 Callahan, C A and B D Steele 1998 Ecologicalrisk assessment guidance for Superfund sites In A de Peyster and K E Day (Eds.), EcologicalRisk Assessment: A ... andecologicalrisk assessment Risk Anal 14:477–481 Burmaster, D E and D A Hull 1997 Using lognormal distributions and lognormal probability plots in probabilistic risk assessments Hum Ecol Risk ... 58:207–213 Deis, D R and D P French 1998 The use of methods for injury determination and quantification from natural resource damage assessment in ecologicalrisk assessment Hum Ecol Risk Assess 4:887–903...
... the assessment of risk of chemicals to human health and well-being and the environment, and present the newest concepts in the evaluation of risks Format: Lectures including case studies, andrisk ... background forrisk assessment General human and eco-toxicology Tools used in risk assessments Animal studies Human studies Exposure assessment Mode of Action Standard setting Management and communication ... den Berg, Professor Institute of Risk Asssessment Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Mary E Meek, McLaughlin Center for population Health Risk Assessment, Ottowa, Canada Kerstin...
... training, and goals The effort is less useful for providing a cross-institutional framework for assessment and comparison Higher Education Funding Council for England’s environmental report and workbook ... (Roorda, 2000, 2002) The goal is for AISHE to expand across Europe and the world, resulting in certificates, awards, and other forms of official recognition for users and the instrument itself (Roorda, ... student environmental assessments and has become a basis for cross-institutional sustainability assessments Herremans and Allwright’s environmental performance survey (Canada and the USA) To assist...
... (2003), European Unilateralism-Environmental Trade Barriers and the Rising Threat to Prosperity through Trade Website 16 http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/index.html 17 http://vietnamese.vietnam.usembassy.gov/ambassador.html ... http://environment-safety.com/courses/EnvManagement/envStandards.htm 44.http://vea.gov.vn/vn/khoahoccongnghe/nhanxanh/gioithieunhansinthai/Pages 45 http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade 46.http://www.customs.gov.vn/Lists/TinHoatDong ... biết, Nxb Hà Nội Tiếng Anh 13 Adam McCarty (2001), Vietnam in ASEAN, Regional Intergration Process and Challenges, Hanoi 14 Damien J Neven (2000), Evaluating the effects of non-tariff barriers, University...
... into Efforts to Improve YRH By providing students with information and skills, sexuality education complements other efforts to provide quality reproductive health information and services and to ... youth-friendly services, and policy dialogue and advocacy School and livelihood opportunities complement and reinforce these approaches Table Effective YRH Program and Policy Actions Program and Policy Action ... nontreatment or delayed treatment; the need for early and effective treatment; the need to inform sexual partners and to treat them for STIs; and the effective methods for preventing STIs, especially correct...
... Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, andImplicationsfor the U.S Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China China’s trade and investment reforms and incentives led to a surge in FDI beginning ... includes electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles ... responsible for its economic rise, and to take a more active leadership role in maintaining that system; and (2) that further economic and trade reforms are the surest way for China to grow and modernize...
... and Doctrine Command, Army Capability Integration Center, and was conducted within RAND Arroyo Center’s Force Development and Technology Program RAND Arroyo Center, part of the RAND Corporation, ... Szayna, and Derek Eaton for substantial feedback on interim ideas and products, and Lauren Caston for input into regular meetings Critical reviews of this document by Karl Mueller (of RAND) and Douglas ... this term or its implicationsfor the United States To understand the effects that this long war will have on the U.S Army and on U.S forces in general, it is necessary to understand more precisely...
... Data for China for years 1998 and 2001 are taken from Zhang and Liang (2006); Data for Vietnam are adapted from Nguyen Thi Kim Anh and Pham Thi Hoang Oanh (2007) for 1998, 2001 and 2004, and are ... forward rate allowed and the forward rate that would equate supply and demand Currency options were first introduced by Eximbank into Vietnam’s forex market in 2003 However, trading in this form ... Institutional and Structural Problems of China's Foreign Exchange andImplicationsfor the New Exchange Rate Regime', China: an Internatinal Journal, Vol 4, No 1, p 26 30 NOTES The data for NEER and REER...
... T time slices, and N and are computed for each slice t Figure illustrates why such a modication is useful It depicts the frequency of the terms neural networks and expert system for each year ... categorization performance with TFM, using the best parameter combinations for each corpus making relatively few modications: the left side of Figure shows a rapid performance increase, particularly for SIGCHI, ... words and phrases are coined or take on new meanings (Bauer, 1994; Jeffers and Lehiste, 1979) Below we describe an application in document clustering and point toward a theoretical framework for...
... men and women, disparity reduction (political, social, and economic) is ignored For example, gender is a powerful predictor of premature cardiovascular morbidity and mortality (Kannel, Hjortland, ... call for a framework for women’s health within health education, gender itself is “a key determinant of health” (p 189); therefore, “a broader understanding of the meaning of women’s health and ... Psychological and modifiable Sociodemographic and somewhat modifiable Biological and not modifiable Figure A gender and health model that exemplifies how health education researchers and practitioners...
... Commission 32 Merging and Compilation Errors 34 VII Conclusions andImplications of the Findings for Consumers 37 A Credit scores and the information in credit reports vary ... not given useful and timely information about their credit 41 Standardized, generic explanations not provide sufficient information for consumers to address inconsistencies and contradictions, ... requirements for complete and accurate reporting of account information to credit repositories, and maintenance of consumer data by the repositories, with adequate oversight and penalties for non-compliance...
... elements and the links, the feedbacks, controls and forcings, and to realize how things are interconnected and how important it is to step back and see the big picture, the possible delayed effects and ... Science and Modeling forEcological Economics So now it is becoming warmer and the bogs are melting And the more it warms up, the more bogs melt and the more gases they pump into the atmosphere and ... What are the elements and processes in our system? How much detail about them we need and can we afford? Do we have enough information about 18 Systems Science and Modeling forEcological Economics...