... for operating the system and maintaining its relevance for the Member States. The Regional Office is coordinating the technical activities and facilitating the establishment ofEHIS and its use ... benefits.Within the European environmentand health process, the establishment of a well-coordinated mecha-nism for health andenvironment monitoring and reporting has increasingly become a priority. The Fourth ... supporting policy-making in Europe) sets up and starts the operation of a comprehensive information and knowledge systemfocusing on children’s health andthe environment. The indicators and underlying...
... 50% in economicgrowth inthe 1980s and its overall conse-quences, along with other factors, con-tributed to the enormous changes in the CCEE and NIS at the end of the 1980s and the beginning ... both the elimin-ation of the most urgent environmental prob-lems andthe integration of environmentalconcerns into economic decision-making in the Region [12]. Box 1.1 summarizes the main messages ... important that they were fully jus-tified in making the attempt.Limitations and Constraints The investment that is being, and will be,committed to environmental management in the interests of...
... found in homes and other indoor environments due to the widespread past uses of lead in gasoline, paint, plumbing and building products and other consumer goods. Indoor lead sources include ... presented inthe country reports and in the following pages. Each country had a “country lead” who took on the task of coordinating the development of and, in some cases, writing the bulk of, the ... report this initial set in 2004 and periodically thereafter. In compiling the indicators for the fi rst report, the Steering Group made several minor adjustments to improve the relevance and consistency...
... regulating the rates at which rainfall isabsorbed and released. Intact forest cover allows rainfall to reachAGRICULTURE ANDTHEENVIRONMENTINTHE HUMID TROPICS 32 Sustainable Agriculture and the ... researchers, planners, and policymakers in industrialized countries andin developing countries.PREFACE viii 1Agriculture andtheEnvironmentin the Humid Tropics The wide belt of land and water that ... Agriculture and theEnvironmentin the Committee on Sustainable Agriculture andtheEnvironmentin the Humid TropicsBoard on Agriculture and Board on Science and Technology for International DevelopmentNational...
... (CS), and mycotoxicosis.1) In Japan, these issueswere addressed by establishing guideline values forindoor formaldehyde concentration in 20002) and the Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport∗To ... junctions, gaps inthe floor, small pores in hollow-block walls, and sumps and drain.128)Radon-induced lung cancers are mainly caused bylow and moderate rather than indoor radon in homesat such ... oc-curring in its early history in people living in houses.SBSistherefore here described as SHS. A pilotstudy revealed that VOCs and carbonyl compounds in Chinese indoor environments were in uenced...
... written extensively on education and alumni culturein Japan, including the Korean Institute of Japanology prize-winning book on Japanese elite high schools (in Japanese). She also haspublished ... years inthe 1980s. He has had a long researchinterest in sport inthe People’s Republic of China and has travelled extensively in the country, meeting sports leaders, visiting sports institutions ... of Japanese Mountaineering: Culture, Ideology and Sports in Modern Mountain Climbing (2000). In 2002, he co-edited with John Horne the first collection on football inthe East Asian region Japan, ...
... Eng-land and France throughout the century. The British ‘definedthemselves as Protestants struggling for survival against . . . the THE CRISIS OFLITERATURE INTHE 1790sPrint Cultureandthe ... of their mix of promise and threat, anticipation and dread,resound inthe writings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain – a time and a place when the newly disturbing ... inthe print industry.22 In Letters on Education (1790), Catherine Macaulay argued that the ‘advantages of printing, by rendering easy the communication ofideas, giving an universality to their...
... pipingwithin the house. In such properties the acidic water could have dissolved lead from the pipes, leading toincreased concentrations inthe water inthe domestic system.3.18 Flushing of the ... conflicting information about the state of the tank at the time of the incident. An employee of SWWA at the time of the incident is reported as stating that the bottom of the tank was filled to the ... markedly thereafter. The proportion of iron samples exceeding the relevant 1984 WHO Guideline Value rose inthe month after the incident and remained high to the end of1990. On the basis of the...
... tried, including varying the threshold and performing regression analysis on various covariates (including the size of the spill in barrels, the x coordinate of plot (c)), but none succeeded in explaining ... threshold 5. The main point here is that,although there are reasons for treating the largest two observations as outliers, theyare not in fact very far from the straight line — in other words, the data ... interesting and exciting research area in a single conference volume. The most important omission may be the extensive use of extreme value theory in reliability theory. This includes modelling...
... relying on the information involved inthe statistics. 2.2.3. The role the innovation of management accounting Nowadays, modern corporations manage and maintain their prosperity inthe intensive ... of this reason, the research focuses on understanding the value of the corporate culture, in particular, understanding the relationship between the corporate cultureandthe innovation of management ... and maintain attachment within the organization to keep in close touch with employees, and affirm their role inthe organization. Secondly, the use of language supports corporate culture in...
... such as accounting, financial reporting and financial statement analysis andthe other the civil law, labor act and company act of Albania). On the other hand, the procedures and criteria to ... the professions of accounting and auditing in Albania and next we present some of the most emerging challenges they are facing in their work due to internal and external factors. Recently the ... whistleblowers, the impact of the ICT and the unstable reporting environment, that seem to present the major hindrances for the today’s professionals in Albania. The introduction of the new NAS in 2006 and...
... gestures,” diminish intricate details inthe name of value engineering. The building and future occupants are stripped of vital design 82 Lighting in Engineering, Architecture andthe Environment ... vertical and horizontal louvers, and is far more interesting and aesthetically intriguing than conventional louver types (see Figures 8 and 9). 66 Lighting in Engineering, Architecture andthe Environment ... spaces in graphs, and theorizes them in terms of their potential to embody or transmit social ideas, and then turns them into measures and representations of spatial structure by linking them...
... longitudinal research study wouldallow the temporal stability of the HADS to be examined.Finally, the construct overlap between the HADS and the other assessment instruments was not examined. The HADS ... shortages, the scoring system of the HADS should adhere to the original instructions by Zig-mond and Snaith [1]; the HADS-A and HADS-D subscalesshould each be comprised of the original seven items. The confirmatory ... Further studies on the response bias of the Japanese version of the HADS are needed. In addition, item 10 needs to be more closely examined in order to determine the consistency with the other...
... contamination to people andthe environment depend on the nature of the radioactive contaminant, the level of contamination, and the extent of the spread of contamination. The remaining chapters of thisbook ... discussed in Section 1.6, including their use and their health risks.Since the history of radionuclides is immediately connected with our under-standing of matter, and thus with the study of atoms and ... motion, the determinationof Avogadro’s number, andthe “counting” of atoms [1]. In 1897 the theory of“indivisible” atoms was put to rest with the discovery of the electron, the first of the subatomic...
... particles, includingα particles and neutrons. Their effects inthe upper atmosphere lead to nuclearinteractions with nitrogen and oxygen atoms and molecules resulting in the production of 14C and ... Concentrations in Food andthe Environment Most of the radionuclides to which we are currently exposed in our foods and theenvironment come primarily from the naturally occurring primordial,secondary, and ... and rocks that make up the Earth’s geosphere and atmosphere can betransferred into the biosphere by many organisms and bioaccumulated inthe foodchain. Indeed, the well-known uptake by living...