Familias Latinas en Los Estados Unidos
Author : Sally Jones Andrade
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Tierra Vacante en Ciudades Latinoamericanas
Author : Nora Clichevsky
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Land use, Urban
ISBN : 9781558441491
Book Description
Vacant urban land--the product of land market activity, the actions of private agents, and the policies of public agents--is an important challenge for policy makers. Vacant lots on the urban fringe and in central and interstitial areas have affected growth patterns in Latin America. Contributors to this book analyze the problems and opportunities related to vacant urban land in five cities: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; Lima, Perú; and San Salvador, El Salvador.
Industrial Chemical Exposure
Author : Robert R. Lauwerys
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781566705455
Book Description
The bestselling resource on industrial chemical assessment just got better. A practical guide to biological monitoring for industrial chemical exposure assessment, the THIRD EDITION of INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL EXPOSURE: GUIDELINES FOR BIOLOGICAL MONITORING has been completely revised to include the latest developments in the field. In addition to an update of each chapter, major revisions have been made to take into consideration new information available since the publication of the second edition. SEE WHAT'S NEW IN THE THIRD EDITION: Major changes to the sections on lead, benzene, trichloroethylene, and dimethylformamide Fourteen completely new topics: bromine, molybdenum, perchlorate, platinum, n-heptane, ethene, 1,3-butadiene trimethylbenzene, naphthalene, terpenes, acrylamide, pesticides, tetrahydrofuran, methyl tertiarybutyl ether, n-nitrosodiethylamine Discussion of the metabolic fate of chemicals Increased information on the threshold of adverse effects levels Development of biological monitoring methods for assessing the internal dose of additional chemicals This authoritative book summarizes what is known about biological monitoring for inorganic, organic and organometallic substances. It provides a summary table with practical recommendations, giving you quick and easy access to the data. With INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL EXPOSURE: GUIDELINES FOR BIOLOGICAL MONITORING you will understand the objectives of biological monitoring, the types of biological monitoring methods, their advantages and limitations, as well as practical aspects that must be considered before initiating a biological monitoring program.
The North American Mosaic
Author : Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Book Description
The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Secret Judgments of God
Author : Noble David Cook
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806133775
Book Description
In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World caused the greatest loss of life known to history. Post-contact Native American inhabitants succumbed in staggering numbers to maladies such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, against which they had no immunity. A collection of case studies by historians, geographers, and anthropologists, "Secret Judgments of God" discusses how diseases with Old World origins devastated vulnerable native populations throughout Spanish America. In their preface to the paperback edition, the editors discuss the ongoing, often heated debate about contact population history.
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
Author : Nathan I. Cherny
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1281 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199656096
Book Description
Emphasising the multi-disciplinary nature of palliative care the fourth edition of this text also looks at the individual professional roles that contribute to the best-quality palliative care.
Radiation Protection in Nuclear Medicine and Pathology
Author : K E. Goldstone
Publisher :
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Industrial hygiene
ISBN : 9780904181623
Book Description
Casarett and Doull's Toxicology
Author : Curtis D. Klaassen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Book Company Limited
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780071139274
Book Description
This updated and revised edition delineates the basic concepts and fundamental principles needed to grasp current issues in modern toxicology. In addition, new contributions help to redefine the book's scope and coverage, and illuminate new and emerging areas of toxicologic interest.
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish
Author : John Butt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1461583683
Book Description
(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.
International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9251091870
Book Description
The understanding that some pesticides are more hazardous than others is well established. Recognition of this is reflected by the World Health Organization (WHO) Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard, which was first published in 1975. The document classifies pesticides in one of five hazard classes according to their acute toxicity. In 2002, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was introduced, which in addition to acute toxicity also provides classification of chemicals according to their chronic health hazards and environmental hazards.
