... and M iz umoto, Y. (2006)Estimation of Intake Level of Di (2-ethylhecyl) ph-thalate (DEHP) of Japanese pregnant woman basedon measurement of concentrations of three urinarymetabolites. Jpn. ... Pollution and Health Problems fromthe Viewpoint of Environmental Hygiene: Focusing on theStudies of Indoor Air Environment in Japan Compared toThose of Foreign CountriesKoichi Harada,∗ , aAsako ... 860–8555,Japan,cDepartment of Prevention and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, K umamoto University, 1–1–1 Honjo, Ku-mamoto 860–8556, Japan,dDepartment of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medi cal...
... type of pollutants. Effective accumu- lators of pollutants are mollusks, often applied as bioin- dicators of water pollution with heavy metals [55,56]. The properties of some populations of ... determination of theforms, properties of semipermeable membranes, physio- air concentration of SO (Figure 4) based on the Hawk-logical condition of the organism, physical characteristics of the environment, ... are used more and more often to determine the level of environmental pollution. Being components of ecosystems, they can provide valuable information on the degree of environmental degradation...
... care of sexuallyabused females are in line with the findings of theUnited Nations panel reporting unmet needs of victims of sexual violence, particularly in remote areas [7]. Thelack of material ... 5:2http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/5/1/2Page 5 of 5SHOR T REPOR T Open AccessFacing medical care problemsof victims of sexualviolence in Goma/Eastern Democratic Republic of the CongoInipavudu Baelani1*, ... of sexual violence in Goma, the capital city of the North Kivu province.Results: Of twenty-three acute care hospitals registered in the area of Goma, four (17%) regularly cared for victimsof...
... state of environmental quality in Da Lat city is collected at the Management environment monitoring and environmental monitoring under the Department of Natural Resources and Environmentof Lam ... database environment status in the resort city of Da Lat§Construction of the map for good management of environmental quality in tourist areas including the city of Da Lat:§Distribution map of ... city of Da Lat.§The map of environmentla air quality tourist areas city of Da Lat.§A map of the surface water environmental quality in tourist areas in Da Lat.§Subject to the four groups of...
... principles of the methods for monitoring biodegradability of environmental polymers are also used for the evaluation of the degradation behavior of biomedical polymers. A number of different ... therefore a measure of the degree of biodegradation. Several test methods are based on measurement of the BOD, often expressed as a percent-age of the theoretical oxygen demand ( TOD ) of the compound. ... is usually not of interest by itself. It is often just one aspect of health and environmental safety issues or integrated waste management concepts. It is fairly obvious but often neglected...
... question of motivation is always of crucial importance so we’ve decided to try to increase the level of motivation of the Citibus’ drivers. We consider the measures of increasing the level of motivation ... considers the symptoms listed above to be symptoms of three problems: a)shortage of buses (symptoms 1, 3, 8, 10); the main underlying cause of this problem istrivial and prosy enough – this ... be mentioned is the wrong schedule of the bus routes (whichdoesn’t take a proper account of the interests of the passengers); and finally, its thefaults of PR Department (the schedule is difficult...
... office, medical, military, and communications equipment. This expanding use of digital circuits is the result of the development of inexpensive integrated circuits and the application of ... point (c) is z(not not A). Aequals A according to the laws of Boolean SCHUM’S OUTLINE OF THEORY AND PROBLEMS OF DIGITAL PRINCIPLES Third Edition ROGER L. TOKHEIM, M.S. ... has a weight of 8, and the least significant bit has a weight of only 1. This code is more precisely known as the 8421 BCD code. The 8421 part of the name gives the weighting of each place...
... shape of the mouth are caused by different positions of the tongue and of the lips. The quality of vowels is determined by the particular configuration of the vocal tract. Different parts of ... over the whole of the central surface of the tongue with friction occurring between the blade/front region of the tongue and the alveolar/front palatal section of the roof of the mouth. During ... results of our study, although small but the results were fairly impressive in terms of the coverage of sounds mispronounced as well as the seriousness of errors. Given the pronunciation problems, ...
... age,andtheir state of health,10,76% of European women in the B schemes havetheirmobility limitedtotheirroom, as opposedto1,53% of their male counterparts,1,47% of African women and 2,94% of the ... programme of visits, the frrst step was to seek out the old agevisitors (the Social Welfare Office in the area) to discuss questions of policyandthe administration of services forthe aged. These officers ... to Tout's (1989)study of the Vilcabamba Valley situated in Loja Province of Ecuador: 39,3% saidthey never suffered from illness, 34,2% complained of rheumatic problems, 8,9%suffered from...
... 0.5–1% of the popu-lation and causes progressive joint destruction thatleads to the restriction of activities of daily living anddeterioration of quality of life. Although the patho-genesis of ... 0.5–1% of the population. RA causes progressive joint destructionthat leads to the restriction of activities of daily living and deterioration of quality of life. Although the pathogenesis of RA ... factors are responsible for 50–60% of the risk of devel-oping RA. Thus, environmental factors may explain the remaining risk of developing RA. A large variety of environmental factors such as infectiousagents,...
... of the problem, the objectives of the study, thedefinition of the event and unit of observation, characterization of the system,sources of data, selection of controls, and characteristics of ... understanding of thetoxic properties or mechanisms of the chemicals in question, of the physiology of the animal species tested and of humans, and of the potential for humanexposures.Three main types of ... dynamics of fish and other wildlife species can be monitored toobtain measures of effects of environmental pollution. It is necessary to havesome knowledge of the natural history of a species...
... measured in terms of number of employees and sales, respectively. Finally, the relevance of environmental impacts of any kind of pollution and a person explicitly responsible for environmental ... analysis directed to the determinants of the use of specific types of abatement measures - principally because of the paucity of available data. On the basis of a unique facility-level data set ... little empirical analysis directed at the diffusion of spe-cific types of environmental technologies, principally because of the paucity of available data (BRUNNERMEIER and COHEN, 2003; JAFFE...