Sabah A. Abdul-Wahab Editor 2011 in Public Buildings and Workplaces I had the pleasure of looking at this valuable effort by a group of international experts from 16 countries on the topic of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). Living in an arid region which has witnessed an unprecedented rates of development and changes in all aspects of everyday life, […]
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Josephine Phillip Msangi Editor 2014 The topic of water scarcity conjures the impression that it is a well trodden path,because so much has been written and many comments made on water deficits around the globe particularly in desert, arid and semi-arid landscapes and during droughts. Case Studies from Namibia
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Hua Zhang 2014 Springer Theses Mercury pollution is one of the major environmental challenges of our time. Severe mercury pollution incidents have sadly illustrated the extreme toxicity of mercury, especially in its organic form methylmercury. Fortunately, mercury pollution, including mercury contaminated sites, is now on the political agenda worldwide, and a new international convention has […]
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Gonghuan Yang • Dafang Zhuang Editors 2014 The Atlas of the Huai River Basin Water Environment: Digestive Cancer Mortality is one outcome of the “ Evaluation of the Correlation between Cancer and the Huai River Water Environment ”, a study conducted under the Eleventh Five-Year Science and Technology Support Program. The atlas is an important […]
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Mahdi Balali-Mood • Mohammad Abdollahi Editors 2014 Although there have been some books on chemistry and some on toxicology of organophosphorus compounds (OPs), no books have been published which deal with different aspects of these compounds. Consequently, this book aims to bring existing knowledge of OPs together and act as a comprehensive manual on the […]
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Kathleen M. Gilbert • Sarah J. Blossom Editors 2014 This book is designed to highlight the best-characterized aspects of trichloroethylene (TCE) toxicity. These include both cancer and non-cancer endpoints. Epidemiologic data concerning the effects of TCE on human health are presented, as well as results obtained in animal models. When available, mechanistic information was provided, and future research directions […]
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Suzanne M. Snedeker Editor 2014 Exposure and Health Risks to Consumers The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive resource on what is known and what we need to know about toxicants present in food packaging materials and household plastics. This includes identifying human exposure scenarios for consumers, summarizing relevant known and emerging health effects, and […]
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Robert J. Gatchel • Izabela Z. Schultz Editors 2014 In 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a very important and influential report, Relieving Pain in America (Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, 2011). This report highlighted the urgent need for the development of better methods for pain management because the everincreasing costs associated with current […]
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