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Effectiveness and efficiency of a literature search strategy to answer questions on the etiology of occupational diseases: a controlled trial
ObjectivesTo evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of a search strategy to find evidence-based answers to questions related to the possible...
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Historical Relationship Between Performance Assessment for Radioactive Waste Disposal and Other Types of Risk Assessment
This article describes the evolution of the process for assessing the hazards of a geologic disposal system for radioactive waste and, similarly,...
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Large Database Access and Usage in the Earth and Space Sciences through Computer Networks
The development of the worldwide computer network has fostered the creation of and access to many data information systems and databases. These offer... -
Tropical forests and the global carbon cycle: estimating state and change in biomass density
Tropical forests have an important role in the global carbon (C) cycle because of their existing large areal extent, high rates of deforestation,... -
Aerobiological research and problems in libraries
Studies carried out in a number of countries have identified about 200 microbic species (fungi and bacteria) which can cause degradation of library...
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Unexamined Scholarship: The Land Grant Universities in the Inland West
Performance is evaluated of land grant universites in the eight-state inland West (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New... -
Risk comparisons and risk communication: Issues and problems in comparing health and environmental risks
In response to rising public fears and concerns about hazardous activities and technologies, analysts and policy makers have increasingly advocated... -
Health Impact of Mycotoxins in the Home and Workplace: An Overview
Fungi are among the biodeterioration and, as such, and occupational settings. involve exposure to fungi principal microorganisms involved in are... -
Communicating with the Public on Health Risks
Communication with the public on health risks dates from ancient times. Early examples can be found in the Bible. For centuries, warning signs and... -
The Delphi approach to the mediation of environmental disputes
Environmental disputes, in many countries, have taken on a ritualistic character. Their persistence, even after prolonged analysis and debate,...
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The cosmopolite-localite model: Newspaper types and natural hazard information potentials
This article presents a description of the costmopolite-localite model , a conceptual framework in which institutional and news coverage...
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Information and research systems in the service of decision-making
When people are in government, they are always involved in some type of information communication, but for more than five years now I have been...
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Risk Analysis and Technological Hazards: A Policy-Related Bibliography
During the past decade, the risk analysis literature has grown from a handful of articles and books to a formidable collection of material. The... -
Wyoming's industrial siting permit process and environmental impact assessment
The problem of management of industrial residuals can be reduced through a rational system for siting and planning major industrial facilities. In...
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Institutional Settings
This chapter focuses on a variety of social institutions, all of which share several important characteristics: all serve specific populations (e....