... exposure of pesticides, monitoring of a single medium will not provide sufficient information about the occurrence of pesticides in the environment A multimedia approach that involves tracking pesticides ... Study of the presence of pesticides in surface waters in the Ebro river basin (Spain), Chemosphere, 64, 1437, 2006 49 Capel P.D., S.J Larson, T.A Winterstein, The behaviour of 39 pesticides in surface ... of pesticide of interest for monitoring programs is not getting shorter and there is a continuing need for development of new criteria that allow the prediction of which pesticides could be of...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22
... of the developed system will remain steady over time Almost under all thematic domains, the introduction of new NEs or the change in the meaning of existing ones can increase the error rate of ... committee of 2004 Olympics In addition, during the separation phase some of the rules have not taken into account some inflexional endings, causing failures in separating some NEs For example, in the ... change in the rule-based system This section describes the basic principles of our control method 4.1 Control method: training stage The training stage of our method consists of the following processing...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20
Water Quality Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease docx
... component of the harmonised framework is the use of an inclusive range of tools for the assessment of risk, including epidemiology and information collected during the investigation of outbreaks of ... application of guidelines of all types at country level While some of this information will be presented in the guidelines per se, WHO could also be instrumental in collating, synthesising and making ... therefore required in promoting one area of intervention (or indeed one specific intervention) on the basis of health gain and there is an increasingly recognised need for representatives of the health...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20
Risk Assessment and Risk Management, II doc
... (2 in one million) 5x10-7 (5 in ten million) 8x10-6 (8 in one million) 1.0x10-3 (1 in one thousand) >> 99.9th%ile (bounding est.) 120x Principles of Environmental Toxicology 14 Principles of ... Contribution Pb-Contaminated Smelter Site 1.2 PbB3 (ug/dL) Probability 0.8 0.6 0.4 PbB3,0.95 0.0 s,dc hd,dc sw,dc rt,dc s,ing rt,ing hd,inh lt,dc sw,ing lt,ing hd,ing 15 Principles of Environmental ... representations of reality, are inherently uncertain • Deterministic modeling is relatively simple and is less demanding of time and resources • Stochastic modeling is more realistic and quantifies uncertainty...
Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 08:21
Risk Assessment and Risk Management, I pps
... Predictive modeling – The sum of an infinite number of distributions, regardless of their form, is a normal distribution – The product of an infinite number of distributions, regardless of their form, ... uncertainty • Interpretation – Put the estimated risk into a regulatory perspective – Put the estimated risk into a real-world perspective 41 42 Principles of Environmental Toxicology Principles of ... as the first phase of a risk assessment carried out at the end of a site investigation • Really an ongoing process 29 30 Principles of Environmental Toxicology Principles of Environmental Toxicology...
Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 08:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Recombinant activated protein C: the key is clinical assessment of risk of death, not subset analysis" potx
... important in identifying risk of death prospectively: a clinical assessment of risk of death or APACHE II scoring? The PROWESS trial had no inclusion criteria related to clinical assessment of risk of ... risk of death and single organ failure? In my opinion the decision on administration of rhAPC should be based on a seasoned clinician’s clinical assessment of high risk of death from sepsis-induced ... high risk of death and others at low risk of death Perhaps if there had been an a priori assignment of clinical assessment of risk of death in the PROWESS trial, the effect of rhAPC in these patients...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21
Báo cáo y học: " Assessment of disease-severity scoring systems for patients with sepsis in general internal medicine departments" pdf
... For determining the quality of the examined scoring systems we used logistic regression For each patient we recorded survival outcomes (alive or dead) in the corresponding intervals of time for ... http://ccforum.com/content/15/2/R95 Page of Table The discrimination (AUC) and calibration (Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness -of- fit) power of the examined scoring systems in different intervals of time 1-day mortality ... score general internal medicine departments Previous studies investigating scoring systems in septic patients were largely confined to ICU settings [8-12], whereas today the majority of septic patients...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21
Human health and ecological risk assessment and risk management
... denaturation of proteins and enzymatic digestion of cellular organelles • Leakage of proteins/enzymes out of the injured cell can be used clinically as a marker of cell death (e.g raised serum levels of ... response GENOMICS IN TOXICOLOGY • Comprehensive understanding of the mechanism of action of toxicants • Identification of biomarkers of exposure • Development of comprehensive screening tools to identify ... Denmark Len Ritter, Professor Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres, University of Guelph, Canada Martin van den Berg, Professor Institute of Risk Asssessment Sciences, University of Utrecht, The...
Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2015, 09:20
Practical industrial safety, risk assessment and shutdown systems, elsevier (2003)
... SILs Integrates responsibility for delivering safety across engineering disciplines, e.g process engineer, instrument engineer, software engineer, maintenance manager and Introduction 21 maintenance ... and designers who may be involved in completely new projects or in the modification/upgrading of existing plants • Engineers involved in the development of packaged processing plants or major equipment ... procedures for carrying out the maintenance and modification of safetyrelated systems Training of staff inadequate safety analysis, inadequate testing, and inadequate management control of procedures...
Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2014, 09:47
Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " An Integrated Approach to Strengthening Institutional Infrastructure for Environmental Risk Assessment, Monitoring & Remedial Action for Pesticide Residues " pptx
... required in terms of the availability of ELISA technology including immunoreagents from Vietnamese sources and the initial training of expert teams for both the application of ELISA and in methods of ... fostering expertise in pesticide monitoring tests within Viet Nam, thus increasing its extent of application, as well as (ii) developing expertise in the risk assessment of pesticides used in agricultural ... residues Baseline information using ELISA on selected produce on pesticide contamination and of the environment Training and strengthening of Vietnamese scientists existing knowledge on monitoring protocols...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20
Statistical Methods of Valuation and Risk Assessment: Empirical Analysis of Equity Markets and Hedge Fund Strategies
... 49 -3- Introduction Much of the financial decision making by financial institutions is focuses on risk management Measuring risk and analysing ways of controlling and allocating it require ... Sachs Commodity Index We also include CSFB High Yield index to incorporate returns available from investing in high yield securities Finally we include the volatility index VIX to incorporate the ... the findings of our generalised style analysis The Kalman filtering and smoother analysis in addition reveals a decaying exposure since 1998, another indication of the de-leveraging process in...
Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2013, 20:00
Risk Assessment of Fenthion Oxide Derivatives in Aqueous Environment
... and Ventura F (2001) Monitoring of pesticides in drinking and related waters in NE Spain with a multiresidue SPE-GC-MS method including an estimation of the uncertainty of the analytical results, ... 30 40 50 60 Incubation time (min) Fig - Formation of MPP metabolites by CYP3A4 up to an incubation time of 60 The molarity of MPP (10 M) at the beginning of the reaction was defined as 100% ... end point for organophosphorus pesticides is thought to be the same As shown in this study, the careful monitoring of organophosphorus pesticides and their oxides in aqueous environment and in tap...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15
Radiological risk assessment for Al-Twuaitha nuclear site in Iraq
... work is to evaluate the risk of radioactivity in the contaminated soil using crystal ball software and samples taken at different points from the surrounding areas of the research reactor Materials ... meaning and even provide an alternative to field tests [5] Results and discussion 3.1 Distribution of radioactivity in surface soil samples The obtained values of 40K in soil samples are within ... village outskirts Since the IRT-5000 reactor bombardment, long-lived of U, 137 Cs, 60Co, 40K and 90Sr are still eminent in the environment, mainly in the surface soil Therefore, the aim of the present...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
A reliability data base for performance and predictive assessment of electric power systems
... elements in frequency and duration (F&D) analysis and in multi-state modeling of generating units Generation Equipment Status Reporting System - Fiqure The simplest representation of a generating ... Severity from - System Minutes an incident with a Severity from - 9 System Minutes an incident with a Severity from 0 - 9 System Minutes The basic definition of a significant power interruption is that ... accomplished by using the HLII indices as input to the distribution functional zone Generating Unit Models A generating unit is modeled to suit a particular application The amount of complexity involved...
Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:36
Reliability assessment of power systems considering reactive power sources
... associate professor of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Qin Wenping received her B.S (1995) and M.S (2001) degrees in College of Electrical & Power Engineering of Taiyuan University of Technology ... Secondly, the main role of reactive power is to maintain voltage stability/security of power systems The effect of reactive power on system reliability in terms of energy not supplied is indirect and ... capacitive and inductive reactive power According to a NERC planning standard guideline [4], reactive capability within 0.9 lagging and 0.95 leading should be available A physical constraint in Var provision...
Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:39
Tài liệu Risk Management Guide for Information Technology SystemsRecommendations ppt
... phase may involve the disposition of information, hardware, and software Activities may include moving, archiving, discarding, or destroying information and sanitizing the hardware and software ... these guidelines be interpreted as altering or superseding the existing authorities of the Secretary of Commerce, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, or any other Federal official ... illustrated by viewing the decisions involved in enforcing use of complex user passwords to minimize password guessing and cracking In this case, a technical control requiring add-on security software may...
Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 02:20
Tài liệu Risk Characterization, Assessment, and Management of Organic Pollutants in Beneficially Used Residual Products pdf
... the incorporation of multiple conservative assumptions in deterministic risk assessment It is not intended to judge the validity of the assumptions In 1998, the State of Wisconsin began developing ... typically in the range of one in ten thousand to one in one million additional cases A case study from the State of Wisconsin illustrates the effect of multiple conservative assumptions in a deterministic ... sample Each cleanup step is intended to eliminate interfering compounds by using physical or chemical properties that differ between interfering compounds and the analyte of interest The analytical...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu Pesticide Residues in Food and Cancer Risk: A Critical Analysis pdf
... pesticide in coffee, d-limonene, is carcinogenic but the only tumors induced were in male rat kidney, by a mechanism involving accumulation of 2u -globulin and increased cell division in the kidney, ... convincing evidence that the induction of bladder tumors in rats by sodium saccharin requires a high dose and is related to the development of a calcium phosphatecontaining precipitate in the urine ... main breakdown compound of glucobrassicin, a glucosinolate that is present in large amounts in vegetables of the Brassica genus, including broccoli, and gives rise to the potent Ah binder indole...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health ppt
... impact of phosphorus waste in macroalgae, in three areas of the Red Sea In spite of that, the problem when applying it to marine vegetation lies on the difficulty of counting the number of individuals ... the grade of individual’s mobility and the morphology of the mouth apparatus intervene in the definition of the trophic category of polychaetes.74 The different combinations of that set of characteristics ... individuals in the vegetal species 2.7 INDICATORS INTEGRATING ALL ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION From a more holistic point of view, some studies proposed indices capable of at least trying to integrate...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 20:20
Tài liệu Impossible Certainty - Cost Risk Analysis for Air Force Systems ppt
... eating, drinking, and transportation, all of which could lead to a variety of harms In terms of cost estimation, the field in which we are applying risk analysis, risk and uncertainty occur in ... successful the firm is in winning and holding other work not necessarily related to a program will influence indirect rates of that program Yet another class of uncertainty involves unusual or rare ... somewhat less innovation in techniques of cost risk, although the increasing power of computers and the more widespread availability of data led to wider application of these existing methods, in part...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20