Living in a technological society with large energy requirements involves a number of related actities with attendant health risks, both to the working and to the general public. Therefore, the formulation of some general principles for risk acceptance is...
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Living in a technological society with large energy requirements involves a number of related actities with attendant health risks, both to the working and to the general public. Therefore, the formulation of some general principles for risk acceptance is necessary. In addition to maximizing benefits and minimizing risk, relevant considerations must be ...
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Since its founding in 1872, the American Public Health Association (APHA) has devoted its energies to influencing the US's federal, state, and local governments to support public health. But within a few years of its establishment, the APHA expanded its interests beyond US borders; Canada joined the organization in 1884, and Mexico and ...
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... Cycloheximide. Other Microbiological Methods Information. American Public Health Association (APHA): APHA. American Type Culture Collection. ...
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... thermal energy recovery testing was also ... of the acceptance test procedure, the ... RECOVERY, *ACCEPTANCE TESTS, VOLUME, ENVIRONMENTS ...
DTIC Science & Technology
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) will be participating at the American Public Health Association�s (APHA) 138th Annual Meeting from November 6-10 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colo.
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Highlights News Advocacy APHA launches public health news website News from the Sept. 2011 Am Jrl of Public Health APHA Supports EPA Rule to Protect Americans from Harmful ...
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... apha or higher, etc. is maximized. Our basic mathematical tools are majorization and Schur functions. These results may be ...
An ideal energy policy would limit consumption in a manner acceptable to voters. Acceptance of a particular mechanism to restrict consumption, however, needs to be preceded by acceptance of the necessity to conserve. Acceptance of this necessity, and a wi...
... This parameter is used to calculate the energy spread acceptance, emittance acceptance and other e-beam quality parameters. ...
... Another accepted method of determining the energy gap involves choosing a range of photon energies corresponding to a range in a thus ...
... Accession Number : ADA141839. Title : Procedures for Acceptance Testing of Solar Energy Systems. Descriptive Note : Final rept.,. ...
... Accession Number : ADA101654. Title : Development of an Acceptance Test for Solar Energy Systems. Descriptive Note : Final rept.,. ...
The distribution of the aphA6 gene, encoding a 3'-aminoglycoside phosphotransferase type VI, was studied by dot blot hybridization with 115 amikacin-resistant Acinetobacter strains from various geographical areas. Nucleotide sequences related to aphA6 were found in 109 strains belonging to seven species. As inferred from results of Southern hybridization, ...
PubMed Central
... Analysis System according to standard methods (APHA 1998). Measurement of denitrification Denitrification was assessed using 3 metrics: unamended denitrification rate (DEN), denitrification enzyme activ...
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AphA is a magnesium-dependent, bacterial class B acid phosphatase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a variety of phosphoester substrates and belongs to the DDDD superfamily of phosphohydrolases. The recently reported crystal structure of AphA from Escherichia coli has revealed the quaternary structure of the enzyme together with hints about its catalytic ...
... for I hr using Standard Methods (American Pub- lic Health Association (APHA ... Isolation of PAH-Degrading Microorganisms from Ninth Avenue Soil ...
department visits for children under 15 years of age. American Public Health Association (APHA), 2004 [PPT - 106 KB] Using National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey...
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Cultural identity is an important factor in how well Aboriginal people respond to HIV/AIDS prevention or, once diagnosed with HIV or AIDS, how it affects their health care. This study explores the cultural skills among service providers who see Aboriginal people living with HIV/AIDS (APHAs) and the perspectives of APHAs. The purpose is to better understand ...
GIS Mapping, Global Health Surveillance and Public Policy. Title: Use of MODIS Terra imagery to estimate surface water quality standards, using Lake ...
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... (Author). Descriptors : *ARMY FACILITIES, *ENERGY CONSERVATION, ACCEPTANCE TESTS, CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION, SPECIFICATIONS ...
... Descriptors : *CRANES, *BARGES, *GANTRIES, VELOCITY, ACCEPTANCE TESTS, POSITION(LOCATION), VIBRATION, FIELD TESTS, ENERGY ...
Content analyses of the official printed programs for the 1973 and 1983 annual meetings of the American Public Health Association were used to compare the proportion of men and women serving as officers of the Association, members of the Executive Board, section representatives to the APHA Governing Council, and officers of section councils. The findings suggest substantial ...
The American Public Health Association (APHA) Task Force on Public Health and Managed Care organized a 2-day conference in September 2000-jointly funded by APHA and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-that engaged public health practitio...
In a policy statement adopted by its Governing Council on 16 November 1983, the American Public Health Association (APHA) proposes measures for the implementation of a public health approach to compensation for, and prevention of, occupational diseases. The statement also outlines specific actions the APHA plans to take in marshalling professional, ...
Bacteria cycle between periods when they perform individual behaviors and periods when they perform group behaviors. These transitions are controlled by a cell�cell communication process called quorum sensing, in which extracellular signal molecules, called autoinducers (AIs), are released, accumulate, and are synchronously detected by a group of bacteria. AI detection results in community-wide ...
at Murdoch University according to the methods of APHA (1989). 2.3.3. Biofilm (Periphyton) Biofilm and inorganic components of the biofilm to be determined (as per APHA 1989). 2.3.4. Biochemical Oxygen Demand using pipe suction. In all instances, a minimum of 3 samples were taken from each position, combined
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Nymphal Ixodes scapularis ticks were collected from several sites in Rhode Island. Polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing were used to determine the presence and prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum human agent (AP-ha) and a genetic variant not associated with human disease (AP-variant 1). The remaining ticks from each cohort were allowed to feed to repletion on ...
Environmental Development Plans (EDPs) are prepared by the Department of Energy to help fulfill the Department's responsibility for the development of environmentally acceptable energy technologies. The EDP provides a common basis for planning, managing, ...
energy technologies, as most of the buildings energy needs are supplied by renewable energy sources. #12;Need for Renewable Energy Professionals Today the increasing importance of renewable energy sources, the Programme emphasises mainly the development of solutions based on renewable ...
Vibrio cholerae is the agent of the severe diarrheal disease cholera, and it perpetuates in aquatic reservoirs when not in the host. Within the host's intestines, the bacteria execute a complex regulatory pathway culminating with the production of virulence factors that allow colonization and cause disease. The ability of V. cholerae to form biofilms is thought to aid its persistence in the ...
Thermal efficiencies are the quality indicators of the performance of any energy system. Most energy systems use accepted terminology which allows comparative evaluations. However, there is no widely accepted standard terminology in use for Stirling engin...
Networking in High Energy Physics covers communications inside the experiment and internationally. Inside the experiment the need for agreed 'codes of practice' is now accepted. Within Europe it is accepted that a common infrastructure based on the use of...
Waste acceptance criteria were developed as part of an overall effort to establish general criteria for the shallow land burial of Department of Energy low-level radioactive waste. Other areas of criteria development include site selection, design, operat...
The document contains the list of Member States which, by 1 May 1987 had accepted the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The list is followed by the texts of reservations to the Agreement made by some of ...
... are nominally endothermic. This led kineticists to question the accepted dissociation energy of the C02-0" bond. We therefore ...
... the energy released during an earthquake is concentrated at ... is acceptable for small earthquakes, it would ... be valid for major earth- quakes in which ...
to as "habits of the heart": the acceptance of civil attitudes and behavior. In this fashion therefore, energy technologies constitute "political things". They cannot be viewed...
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If the energy is increased the change is still accepted with a probability depending on the Boltzmann factor: exp(-deltaE/Temp). ...
... DoD) Issuances (current and cancelled), Joint Staff and ... calibration curve to maximum operating energy. ... scale are in good agreement with accepted ...
... Thus, the availability of this type of information ... well as energy expenditure comparisons between two different exercise types (eg, jogging ...
... rule of law� and satisfactory financial institutions to ... pleased with China's apparent acceptance of the new ... ASEAN on regional disputes as it pursues ...
of fuels and chemicals in an energy-efficient and environmentally acceptable fashion. Of particular interest are the conversion of alkanes to alkenes and functionalized...
... energy. Henry Kissinger expressed it this way: - . - In Greek mythology the gods sometimes punished man , by fulfilling his wishes too completely. ...
Acceptance tests are intended to verify that the hardware design meets requirements. ..... The x-ray beam characteristics such as the energy spread, beam ...
Puerto Rico now depends for 99% of its energy needs on petroleum. The nuclear alternative is not politically acceptable, so Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) combined with photovoltaics is the most promising renewable resource for energy. Wind power ...
This program is for the development of an energy storage system that accepts thermal energy at high temperatures, stores it at near ambient temperature, and recovers the energy on demand at a temperature near the original high temperature. The energy is s...
acceptable as alternate energy sources.. NSF, as the lead agency for the federal geothermal energy research program, is expediting ...
A solar energy module characterized by a receiver 14 having a solar energy acceptance opening 22 and supported by a mounting ring 18 along the optic axis A of a parabolic mirror 12 in coaxial alignment therewith for receiving solar energy from the mirror, and a solar flux modulator plate 42 for varying the quantity ...
... Accession Number : ADA192684. Title : Reduction of Energy Consumption for Air Conditioning While Maintaining Acceptable Human Comfort. ...
to the progress and acceptance of renewable energy technologies. October 25, 2010 NREL Names New Deputy Lab Director for Science and Technology The U.S. Department of Energy's...
while maintaining competitiveness. The U.S. program will launch in 2011 to provide a transparent, nationally accepted system for validating improvements in energy intensity and...
The goal of the Fossil Energy Demonstration Plant Program is to initiate projects that will produce the information required to commercialize the conversion of domestic coal resources into environmentally and socially acceptable substitutes for oil and na...
... UK in the 1990s. Among the available technologies wind power is at the forefront. Public perceptions of the ... reduce environmental impacts and make the development of wind energy more acceptable to loca...
.................................................................................................................................. NJ-2 NJ.3.1 Variable Air Volume Systems Outdoor Air Acceptance that they issue. NJ.3 Outdoor Air NJ.3.1 Variable Air Volume Systems Outdoor Air Acceptance NJ.3.1.1 Construction and Constant Volume � MECH-3-A Packaged HVAC ...
Rufus Ashley Lyman, a physician, was one of the most prominent leaders in US pharmacy education during the first half of the 20th century. He remains the only individual to be the founding dean at colleges of pharmacy at 2 state universities. His role in the creation and sustenance of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education provided a platform for a national community and a sounding board ...
A sample preparation procedure for the quantitative determination of free and total cyanides in industrial effluents has been developed that involves hydrocyanic acid vapor generation via focused microwave radiation. Hydrocyanic acid vapor was generated from free cyanides using only 5 min of irradiation time (90 W power) and a purge time of 5 min. The HCN generated was absorbed into an ...
Nymphal Ixodes scapularis ticks were collected from several sites in Rhode Island. DNA was extracted from a subset of these ticks, and PCR and DNA sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene were used to determine the ratio of Anaplasma phagocytophila-human agent (AP-ha) to a genetic variant not associated with human disease (AP-Variant 1). The remaining ticks were allowed to feed to ...
The microbiological quality of recreational waters was first discussed in the United States as early as 1922 by the American Public Health Association's Committee on Bathing Beaches (APHA,1922) . The Committee surveyed 2000 physicians and state health officials inquiring about th...
EPA Science Inventory
LIST OF ACRONYMS Acronym Full Name (acronym stands for) AFDM Ash Free Dry Mass ANOVA Analysis of Variance APHA American Public Health Association ASTM American Society of Testing...
... before drying each specimen at 60 C and ashing at 500 C to quantify body mass (g ash-free dry mass with shell; hereafter AFDM; APHA, 1989). A ... ...
NCI, in collaboration with C-Change and a diverse group of professionals representing academia, federal, state and local health departments, and private and non-profit organizations, established a Cancer Forum within APHA in 2008.
... using standard methods (APHA 1998). Dissolved inorganic N (DIN) was assessed by adding NO2-N, NO3-N, ... and the 3 measures describing the landuse gradient (DIN, DRP, and %FINES). We measured the correlat...
Contents: Bromination of N-Methylquinaldinum Iodide; Semisynthetic Penicillins. VIII. Influence of Substituents at apha-Position of the Side Chain on Stability in Acid Media; Viomycin Derivatives. III. Viomycinmethyltetracyclines - Their Preparation and P...
...development of recommendations concerning public health and preventive medicine practices...associations will be included in the public file on standard-setting activities...Veterinarians (AAFHV). (ii) American Public Health Association (APHA)....
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011
Preservice elementary school teachers in Israel (n=608) answered questions about energy concepts. Results revealed the following: (1) many hold alternative conceptual frameworks, not accepted scientific concepts; (2) many do not accept the idea of energy conservation or degradation; (3) they confuse ...
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. Batteries are also not capable of properly accepting regenerative braking energy when recently charged-based or hydrogen-based energy storage systems, unlike batteries, are unable to accept energy from regenerative braking. For this reason, hybrid systems use an auxiliary ...
A module is described with a receiver having a solar energy acceptance opening and supported by a mounting ring along the optic axis of a parabolic mirror in coaxial alignment for receiving solar energy from the mirror, and a solar flux modulator plate for varying the quantity of solar energy flux received by the ...
energy density was widely accepted, although the nature of the dark matter remained a mystery. After simplicity of a universe in which virtually all of the energy density consists of some form of matter energy came to the rescue (10). The only thing dark energy has in common with dark matter is ...
The future projected in the Project Independence Report calls heavily on nuclear energy. Validating the nuclear option will require technology improvement and implementation of new policy. But of all the issues that might compromise nuclear energy the most important now appears to be the public acceptability of this ...
This report emphasizes the widespread, domestic, long-term, reliable availability of solar energy resources, and the general environmental acceptability of solar energy power systems. Finally, the report outlines the types of solar energy research, techno...
The Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Conservation Technologies (ACT) is developing cost-effective, efficient, reliable, and environmentally acceptable energy storage systems. The mission of the Energy Storage Program is to develop devices, proces...
and actionable "solutions", what we are offering is perhaps most importantly an alternative of "energy alternatives" for design (as distinct from the technological panacea of "alternative energy"). While critical uncritically accepted position of energy and proposes alternative perspectives by way of combining ...
It is possible to extend the structure of Newton's gravitation, in order to include Einstein's mass-energy relation. This extended gravitation must accept positive and negative masses corresponding to positive and negative energies. The static problem is ...
It is generally accepted that molecular motors are utilizing the chemical energy of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis to convert it to the mechanical energy. A set of preliminary data demonstrates that the periodic electric field can induce transport as well, thus providing the energy to the molecular system.
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
...Loans To Finance Purchase and Installation of Energy Conserving Improvements, Solar Energy Systems, and Individual Utility Meters in...acceptable risk in that energy conservation or solar energy benefits to be derived outweigh the risks...
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010
...from the International Atomic Energy Agency or other energy-related international organizations (e.g., the Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Energy Agency) covering transportation expenses to or from a foreign country in...
OBJECTIVENo study has evaluated the association between state endorsement of American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and American Public Health Association (APHA) national guidelines and unnecessary exclusion decisions. We sought to determine the rate of unnecessary exclusion decisions by child care directors in a state that endorses AAP/APHA guidelines and ...
A radiant energy collector is described having a generally scroll-shaped configuration and exhibiting a hemispheric energy acceptance angle. Substantially all diffuse and direct radiant energy which is incident on a reflective surface of the collector is reflected toward an elongated energy ...
Milk consumption, its nutritial values, and its sanitation and preservation are reviewed. The production of sterile milk as an alternative to pasteurized milk is discussed. A technical assessment of the feasibility of introducing sterile acceptable milk (...
Apr 6, 2011 ... Besides winds, lightning long has been an accepted measure of atmospheric energy. Since 1925, scientists have accepted that the global ...
On May 25, 1994, the Department of Energy published a Notice of Inquiry on Waste Acceptance Issues in the Federal Register. Through this Notice of Inquiry, the Department sought to implement the Secretary's initiative to explore with affected parties vari...
The strategy adopted by the Philippine Atomic Energy Commisssion (PAEC) to gain acceptance for the country's nuclear power program is described. The various dimensions of Philippine society that affects the attainment of this objective is explored, includ...
An effort has been undertaken to develop a brittle fracture acceptance criterion for structural components of nuclear material transportation casks. The need for such a criterion was twofold. First, new generation cask designs have proposed the use of fer...
