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Open AccessAn unexpected, mild phenotype of glucocorticoid resistance associated with glucocorticoid receptor gene mutation case report and review of the literature
Glucocorticoid resistance is a rare, sporadic or familial condition caused by mutation of the gene encoding the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Clinically it is characterized by symptoms developed due to local, ...
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Public Health, Policy Analysis, Risk Assessment, and Impact Assessment
There is no common consensus on the meaning of public health and its future goals and there are different understandings among states about objectives and how public health services are organized. The new publ...
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Bottom-Up Policy Risk Assessment
The top-down risk assessment that fits the classical HIA method and its application on policy was in depth presented in the previous chapter. Many public health experts find large policies difficult to assess ...
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Top-Down Policy Risk Assessment
The primary aim of the Risk Assessment from Policy to Impact Dimension (RAPID) 2009–2012 EU project was to develop a methodological guidance for policy risk assessment. The main idea was that the systematic an...
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Use of Policy Risk Assessment Results in Political Decision Making
The RAPID project established, during the first period, a thematic network of risk assessment experts, including relevant partners in the ten countries involved, the “Risk assessor database”. The project devot...
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Study on the Chemical Character of Water Soluble Organic Compounds in Fine Atmospheric Aerosol at the Jungfraujoch
In this study the chemical nature of the bulk of water soluble organic compounds in fine atmospheric aerosol collected during summer 1998 at the Jungfraujoch, Switzerland (3580 m asl) is characterised. The mas...
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Development of a monitoring network for the analysis of elements in aerosol samples collected at Lake Balaton
Determination of different toxic elements in aerosol and precipitation samples collected at Lake Balaton were carried out. A simple sequential leaching procedure was applied for the determination of the distri...
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Regional Scale Modeling Case Studies for Aerosol Transport Over Hungary
Aerosol samples were daily taken simultaneously on Nuclepore filters in suburban Budapest and at the regional background air pollution station (K-puszta) 80 km far from Budapest. The samples were analysed amon...
