european approaches to coastal and estuarine risk assessment

... solely to the individual Simple and transparent (i.e., easy to understand and replicate) methods should be developed for application in a regulatory context to expand the scope of ecological risk assessments ... ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT MODEL The objective of the assessment component of this analysis was to express the impact of individual exposures to a toxic contaminant in terms of the risk to receptor ... greater than 1, then a risk exists that the response ascribed to T will occur If it is assumed that the risk to be characterized is the result of the exposure of a receptor to a toxic contaminant...

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... Xu B and Song J Prevalence and risk factors of overactive bladder syndrome in Fuzhou Chinese women Neurourol Urodyn 2006; 25:717 Teleman PM, Lidfeldt J, Nerbrand C, Samsioe G, Mattiasson A and ... benefit from better detection and treat- 393 ment initiation The OAB-V8 questionnaire is a possible effective and fast screening tool Our study also examined the risk factors for OAB in men We found ... Overactive bladder: prevalence, risk factors and relation to stress incontinence in middle-aged women BJOG 2004; 111:600 Coyne K, Margolis M, Zyczynski T, Elinoff V and Roberts RG Validation of...

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... Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2007, 2:2 http://www.occup-med.com/content/2/1/2 Table 2: Exposure to chlorinated and aromatic hydrocarbons and lymphoma in total (n = 710 matched pairs) ... exposure to PCE and trichloroethylene (Pearson correlation coefficient = 0.42) Only 2% of the control subjects are exposed to carbon tetrachloride according to expert assessment, leading as well to ... statistical analysis and in the critical revision of this manuscript AN and NB who is the PI prepared, designed and coordinated the study and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved...

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... EP-T, and FC helped to perform analysis and interpretation of the data DHa and PA helped to perform analysis and interpretation of the data and to draft the manuscript VHT and UW (and the European ... gene and genomewide association studies are prone to confounding due to LD with HLA-DRB1 alleles Successful identification of additional genetic risk factors in this region needs to account for risk ... Consortium on Rheumatoid Arthritis Families) contributed to the recruitment of families and to the acquisition of clinical data FE and US helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved...

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... Report 2002 47 Risk Management 6.1 Environmental, Safety and Health (ESH) Risks and Emergencies and Natural Disasters 6.4 Political and Regulatory Environment TSMC's management team monitors closely ... TSMC management does not tolerate unethical behavior or compromise of its core values and principles prevention and response teams trained both to handle emergencies and to work closely with government ... alternatives, and solutions for each possible Internal policies and procedures exist with respect to high -risk/ high-leveraged investment, lending/endorsement and scenario, and appropriate precautionary and/ or...

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... Canberra: AIHW; 2000 Haldeman S: Risk factors for low back and neck pain: An introduction to clinical epidemiology and review of commonly suspected risk factors In Principles and Practice of Chiropractic ... getting in and out of bed or a chair, sleeping, working, social activities and sport)" • Self-reported modifiable risk factors as described in Table (according to a standardised clinical history) ... Dalton for data and statistical consultancy and Julie Bateman for formatting the paper 18 19 20 References 10 11 12 13 14 Mayhew C: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander occupational health and...

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... how the set is to be expanded Thus, it is possible to define the property of talking to have John talking and to expand the set previously identified as being denoted by "John" to not include ... elements in the model and this would allow them to be treated differently For example, if "John and Mary" was not identified to be the same as "Mary and John", it would be possible to have the model ... inconsistencies into the model To be useful in a natural language understanding system, this mechanism needs to have timely determinations of whether or not two expressions are equivalent, and thus it...

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... Amisano, Antonio Guccione, Vesa Kanniainen, Alessandro Missale, Michele Moretto, Carlo Scarpa, and Peter Birch Sứrensen I am also indebted to two patient colleagues of mine, Roberto Casarin and Francesco ... commit to a given operating strategy, and measures a rms ability to react to new market conditions falls to zero It is worth noting that without business exibility, and the projects expanded NPV ... propensity to undertake a given projectis easily explained once we return to the basic option value idea The investor who declines to invest in project today (but retains the right to so tomorrow)...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... single-family and townhouses, and modest-size (two to four story) multi-family housing within existing residential neighborhoods, and mid-rise (more than four- to ten-story) multi-family along arterials and ... abilities and needs to live together in attractive, diverse and dynamic neighborhoods It allows lower-income employees to live close to businesses, economically and socially disadvantaged children to ... applied to lower-priced housing in areas with expensive land Parking demand is highly variable, depending on demographic (income and age), geographic (land use density and mix), and management factors...

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... Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Nigel Stork and Steve Turton to be identified as the authors of the editorial material in this work has ... Centre for Tropical Ecology and Management and these are identified with an asterisk EDITORS Nigel E Stork* School of Resource Management and Geography, Faculty of Land and Food Resources, University ... Land and Water, Davies Laboratory, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Grant W Wardell-Johnson* Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia; and Natural and...

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... land degradation and desertification to over-grazing by livestock, the authors of the chapter admit that ‘there seem[s] to be insufficient data on actual soil conditions and/ or productivity to ... Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, N-1432 Ås, Norway He has extensively published on topics related to rangeland management, Pastoralism and livestock ... L E Livestock in a changing landscape: Drivers, consequences, and responses (Volume 1) and Gerber, P., Mooney, H A., Dijkman, J., Tarawali, S and de Haan, C Livestock in a changing landscape:...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... itself In our approach, the communication bandwidth is only limited by the ability of the automatic placement and routing tools to make best use of the wire bandwidth available in the target FPGA ... attempt to highlight the possibilities for domain specific system topologies to be created within a generalized FPGA architecture 1.3 Core isolation and interfacing In order to allow cores to coexist ... a medium, there has to be isolation to prevent interference Additionally, for cores to be able to communicate there has to be an interface shared between cores Interfacing and isolation of reconfigurable...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... this topic He has designed some vehicles that used inhibitory and excitatory influences directly coupling the sensors to the motors Some seemingly complex behaviours like cowardice, aggression, and ... be found in [16] Due to the limited processing power, BrainStem is used in slave mode and is only required to retrieve the data from sensors and give command to the servomotors The second level ... target-detection sensor, to move accordingly using proper locomotion system, and to process the 37 sensor data before sending command to the locomotion system For the target, it must be able to tell when...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 22:43

... versions of innovator drugs and for such diverse entities as medical protocols, surgical techniques and medical devices,7-10 there are no such standard criteria for how to evaluate and support such ... different smoking histories and relative risk for smoker vs non-smoker cancer death in various subgroups Urban males ages 35 and over, 1986–1988 in China † RR1 and RR2 denote relative risks calculated ... in various cancer sites in males ages 35 and over, 1986–1988 in urban and rural areas †RR1 and RR2 denote relative risks calculated with study group1 and study group 2, respectively http://www.medsci.org...

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... 50 and 59 up to 14.5% in those aged 70 and older [10] Among the traditional cardiovascular risk factors, diabetes mellitus and tobacco use are the strongest risk factors for the development and ... opposed to asymptomatic disease The present study adds to the growing body of literature pertaining to the risk of cardiovascular disease in chronic inflammatory conditions Patients with PMR and ... monitored closely and modifiable cardiovascular risk factors should be managed aggressively Conclusions Patients with PMR appear to have an increased risk of PAD Future studies will be required to...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... Intracranial hemorrhage in asymptomatic neonates: prevalence on MR images and relationship to obstetric and neonatal risk factors Radiology 2007, 242:535–541 18 Rooks VJ, Eaton JP, Ruess L, Petermann ... described association between VE-assisted birth and increased risk for neonatal intracranial hemorrhages, and provides robust data on incidence and risk factors for this complication The finding that ... maternal and infant risk factors – to neonatal brain injury Methods This study was based on information in two national databases held by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, and Statistics...

Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2015, 13:09

... symptoms stands in contrast to a narrow use of the Index as a decision tool in the EMCCs More focus towards the emergency system outside hospitals, including triage and dispatch, and how to best ... Rogaland, southern part of Hordaland, Hedmark, and Oppland counties, covering a total of 69 581 km (21% of the total area ofNorway) and 816 000 inhabitants (18% of the total population) Data registration ... EMCCs and support from Lars Solhaug, Dag Frode Kjernlie, Sissel Grønlien, and Jan Nystuen from the area of Innlandet, Unni Eskeland and Olav Østebø from the area of Stavanger, and Leif Landa,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56

... Brazilian, the higher prevalence of disease is probably due to better access to health services and a greater awareness and understanding of symptoms The most prevalent disease in this study was hypertension, ... 2763/2003); and to the Secretary of Education of the State of Minas Gerais for the permission granted to the first author to attend the Master’s course REFERENCES Barros MBA, César CLG, Carandina L, Torre ... questions and items in each of the eight scales were added up The total scores for each of the eight scales were then converted to points from to 100, with denoting the worst state of health and 100...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

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