Democracy in Mexico
Author : Pablo González Casanova
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Indoor Allergens
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309048311
Book Description
More than 50 million Americans, one out of five, suffer from hay fever, asthma, and other allergic diseases. Many of these conditions are caused by exposure to allergens in indoor environments such as the house, work, and schoolâ€"where we spend as much as 98 percent of our time. Developed by medical, public health, and engineering professionals working together, this unique volume summarizes what is known about indoor allergens, how they affect human health, the magnitude of their effect on various populations, and how they can be controlled. The book addresses controversies, recommends research directions, and suggests how to assist and educate allergy patients, as well as professionals. Indoor Allergens presents a wealth of information about common indoor allergens and their varying effects, from significant hay fever to life-threatening asthma. The volume discusses sources of allergens, from fungi and dust mites to allergenic chemicals, plants, and animals, and examines practical measures for their control. Indoor Allergens discusses how the human airway and immune system respond to inhaled allergens and assesses patient testing methods, covering the importance of the patient's medical history and outlining procedures and approaches to interpretation for skin tests, in vitro diagnostic tests, and tests of patients' pulmonary function. This comprehensive and practical volume will be important to allergists and other health care providers; public health professionals; specialists in building design, construction, and maintenance; faculty and students in public health; and interested allergy patients.
Damp Indoor Spaces and Health
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309091934
Book Description
Almost all homes, apartments, and commercial buildings will experience leaks, flooding, or other forms of excessive indoor dampness at some point. Not only is excessive dampness a health problem by itself, it also contributes to several other potentially problematic types of situations. Molds and other microbial agents favor damp indoor environments, and excess moisture may initiate the release of chemical emissions from damaged building materials and furnishings. This new book from the Institute of Medicine examines the health impact of exposures resulting from damp indoor environments and offers recommendations for public health interventions. Damp Indoor Spaces and Health covers a broad range of topics. The book not only examines the relationship between damp or moldy indoor environments and adverse health outcomes but also discusses how and where buildings get wet, how dampness influences microbial growth and chemical emissions, ways to prevent and remediate dampness, and elements of a public health response to the issues. A comprehensive literature review finds sufficient evidence of an association between damp indoor environments and some upper respiratory tract symptoms, coughing, wheezing, and asthma symptoms in sensitized persons. This important book will be of interest to a wide-ranging audience of science, health, engineering, and building professionals, government officials, and members of the public.
Employment in Metropolitan Areas
Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Labor supply
ISBN :
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Management of Nuclear Power Plant Projects
Author : IAEA
Publisher : International Atomic Energy Agency
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9201055226
Book Description
Member States intending to introduce a nuclear power programme will need to pass through several phases during the implementation. Experience shows that careful planning of the objectives, roles, responsibilities, interfaces and tasks to be carried out in different phases of a nuclear project is important for success. This publication presents a harmonized approach that may be used to structure the owner/operator management system and establish and manage nuclear projects and their development activities irrespective of the adopted approach. It has been developed from shared management practices and consolidated experiences provided by nuclear project management specialists through a series of workshops and working groups organized by the IAEA. The resultant publication presents a useful framework for the management of nuclear projects from initiation to closeout and captures international best practices.
Publication standards
Author : United States. Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
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Understanding Mammography
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Breast
ISBN :
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Ethnic Music on Records
Author : Richard K. Spottswood
Publisher :
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 1990
Category :
ISBN : 9780252017186
Book Description
The Exform
Author : Nicolas Bourriaud
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1784783803
Book Description
Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A “realist” theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that create the distinctions between the productive and unproductive, product and waste, and the included and excluded. To do this we must go back to the towering theorist of ideology Louis Althusser and examine how ideology conditions political discourse in ways that normalize cultural, racial and economic practices of exclusion.
Voice of the Leopard
Author : Ivor L. Miller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1604738146
Book Description
In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross River basin. Instead, each settlement had its own lodge of the initiation society called Ékpè, or “leopard,” which was the highest indigenous authority. Ékpè lodges ruled local communities while also managing regional and long-distance trade. Cross River Africans, enslaved and forcibly brought to colonial Cuba, reorganized their Ékpè clubs covertly in Havana and Matanzas into a mutual-aid society called Abakuá, which became foundational to Cuba's urban life and music. Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors. To gain deeper understanding of the material, Miller underwent Ékpè initiation rites in Nigeria after ten years' collaboration with Abakuá initiates in Cuba and the United States. He argues that Cuban music, art, and even politics rely on complexities of these African-inspired codes of conduct and leadership. Voice of the Leopard is an unprecedented tracing of an African title-society to its Caribbean incarnation, which has deeply influenced Cuba's creative energy and popular consciousness.
