rural and urban perspectives on transformation

... relationship Environmental Rural Sex Male Female P value Age 60-69 > 70 P value Marital Status Single Married P value Education Illiterate Literate P value Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban ... physical and psychological domains ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG RURAL AND URBAN ELDERLY POPULATION whereas QOL in urban slum elderly was better in social relationship and environmental ... individual Urban populations are aware of their disease condition and are more concerned for health problems while in rural area they just ignore it considering being natural process The rural elderly...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... common law rests on a transaction that involves the interests of donor, charitable organisation, recipient and the State in an amalgam of private and public law concerns Arbitration on any conflict ... gathering of information and the profiling of functions and policy in respect of Australia and New Zealand, the United States, Singapore and Canada Part IV, the final section, reflects on the findings ... educational or scientific institution or institutions’;26 and for ‘charitable benevolent religious and educational institutions associations and objects’.27 The rationale for adversely discriminating...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 05:20

... research on the nature and timing of perception, response initiation, and consciousness Perception is not the arrival of pre-processed information at some central brain location; nor does response ... definitive ‘stream of consciousness’, only a parallel stream of conflicting and continuously revised contents’’ ‘‘[A]ll perceptual operations, and indeed all operations of thought and action, are accomplished ... not assume common-sense views of the role of reason and reasons—that is, of our having good reasons for writing it and of our readers accepting our conclusions on the basis of reason Rather, we...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:41

... Examination of Fetoscopy Ronald Cole-Turner, ed., Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification Design and Destiny Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human ... multiplicity of religions and even of Christianities, insisting upon the one he calls traditional On the basis Religion and the Question of Human Germline Modification 23 of traditional Christianity, ... introduction to the various ways religions draw upon ancient texts and traditions to make sense of contemporary challenges He notes that from the tradition and perspectives of Judaism, there is a strong...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:51

... juries and legal decision-making, aspects of criminal responsibility, mistaken convictions, employment and discrimination, family law and child protection, and scientific and ethical aspects of ... 1993) and The Psychology of Criminal Conduct by Donald A Andrews and James Bonta (Cincinnati, OH: Anderson, 3rd edn, 2003) For an historical overview of the relationship between psychology and ... penalties Peter Raynor and Maurice Vanstone Understanding psychology and crime James McGuire Understanding psychology and crime Perspectives on theory and action James McGuire Open University Press...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:54

... concerns about not having enough food to take ARVs than those on ARVs We found that this association between not being on ART and concerns about food held true in both rural and urban areas and ... Zambia and Macro International Inc: Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2007 Calverton, Maryland, USA, CSO and Macro International Inc 2009 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS: Report on ... Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global AIDS Program The findings and conclusions included in its content are solely the responsibility of the author (s) and not necessarily represent...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... AIDS Foundation When this survey was conducted, the program had been in operation for one year at the urban hospital and six months at the rural health units Mothers were enrolled consecutively ... interventions for PMTCT, particularly rapid testing for HIV and short course antiretroviral therapy among mothers in rural and urban settings Methods This is a cross-sectional study conducted ... citation purposes) AIDS Research and Therapy 2005, 2:10 http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/2/1/10 Table 2: Knowledge, attitudes and acceptance for rapid HIV testing among rural and urban mothers...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... — and oxycodone than did urban participants, after adjustment for age, race, and gender For hydromorphone and morphine use among rural drug users, injection was most common Notably, among rural ... administration for hydrocodone, methadone, OxyContin®, and oxycodone, while injecting was most commonly used for hydromorphone and morphine administration After adjustment for age, race, and gender, rural ... administration Significantly more rural participants reported snorting hydrocodone, OxyContin®, Discussion Preferred route of administration varied by substance and by rural/ urban status Among urban...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... slavery, conscripted 2898_book.fm Page Monday, July 26, 2004 12:14 PM PERSPECTIVES ON GOLD AND GOLD MINING and convict labor, unhealthy and shortened life span, and degraded living conditions (Anikin ... emphasis on jewelry, bullion and coinage, medicine, dentistry, and electronics; properties, including geological, physical, chemical, and biological; sources and production; concentrations in field ... Biogeochemical, Health, and Ecotoxicological Perspectives on Gold and Gold Mining Ronald Eisler, Ph.D CRC PR E S S Boca Raton London New York Washington, D.C 2898_C00.fm Page iv Friday,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... approximately million dollars (Petralia 1996) Fluctuations in the price of gold are considered irrational and based on fear, greed, and anxiety rather than on industrial production and associated ... hydrosulfides, and complex compounds, and deposited in sediments with high carbon, sulfide, and iron content However, it can also be mobilized by hydrothermal solutions and granitic intrusion; deep ... during exsolution of magmatic fluids and sites of gold deposition are considered to be particularly favorable for either the liberation, concentration, transport, or precipitation of gold and, hence,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... J., A von Bohlen, F Alt, and R Klockenkamper 2000 Separation and enrichment of palladium and gold in biological and environmental samples, adapted to the determination by total reflection X-ray ... absorption spectrometry [AAS] (Brown and Smith 1980; Kehoe et al 1988; Niskavaara and Kontas 1990; Ohta et al 1995; Begerow et al 1997), fire assay (Gasparrini 1993), and neutron activation [NA] and ... metal–metal bonds in which it is difficult to assign formal oxidation states Additional information on stereochemistry, stability of complexes, oxidation– reduction potentials, current theories, and other...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... 2004 12:14 PM GOLD CONCENTRATIONS IN FIELD COLLECTIONS 57 Table 5.2 Gold Concentrations in Selected Plants and Animals* Taxonomic Group, Species, and Other Variables Concentration Referencea Plants ... Students Construction workers 2898_book.fm Page 59 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:14 PM GOLD CONCENTRATIONS IN FIELD COLLECTIONS Table 5.2 (continued) 59 Gold Concentrations in Selected Plants and Animals* ... 12:14 PM 62 PERSPECTIVES ON GOLD AND GOLD MINING Hannington, M., P Herzig, S Scott, G Thompson, and P Rona 1991 Comparative mineralogy and geochemistry of gold-bearing sulfide deposits on the mid-ocean...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... macdonaldi) was severely inhibited in a dose-dependent fashion by monovalent gold ions and other strongly oxidizing metal ions — especially Ag+, Cu+2, and Hg+2 — at concentrations of 100 mg/L and ... sulfur and sulfide oxidation by ferric ions from bacterial oxidation of ferrous ions The maximum concentration of attached Thiobacillus increases with increasing concentration of Fe+2 and decreases ... (Ag+)-induced contractions in skeletal muscle and that intracellular Au+3 activates the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca+2 release channel to partially contribute to the tonic contractions (Nihonyanagi and Oba...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... union personnel, and others, also lack information about mercury transformations in the environment Education on the toxicological properties of mercury and its transformation products is strongly ... ago (de Lacerda and Salomons 1998) Contamination is reflected by elevated mercury concentrations in air, water, and diet, and in hair, urine, blood, and other tissues However, only a few studies ... order to conform to recognized safe occupational levels, implementation of more frequent medical examinations with emphasis on early detection and treatment of disease states, and continuation of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... affects eosinophil differentiation, adhesion, effector function, and survival, and is considered the most important cytokine in eosinophil regulation High concentrations of sodium gold thiomalate ... of his hands and fingers (Suarez et al 2000) At work, he handled, without gloves, a solution containing 5% gold trichloride and 0.006% cobalt and nickel He had no dental restorations and no previous ... Goldschlager (one of several brands of a cinnamon-flavored 2898_book.fm Page 122 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:14 PM 122 PERSPECTIVES ON GOLD AND GOLD MINING schnapps containing 53% ethanol and 10 to 23...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... massive and often contain acid-forming rocks and metal contaminants, they pose environmental hazards when exposed to air and water At present, billions of tons of waste rock left on the American landscape ... Environ Contam Toxicol., 61, 548–556 U.S National Academy of Sciences (USNAS), National Research Council, Committee on Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands 1999 Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands National ... extraction include land disturbance, erosion, and the disruption of riverine ecosystems (Ripley et al 1996) Discharges of water containing suspended solids and runoff from disturbed land affects...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... cyanide concentrations >20 µg/L and adverse effects on swimming and reproduction at >5 µg/L Exclusion from cyanide solutions or reductions of cyanide concentrations to nontoxic levels are the only ... where both inflow and evaporation are moderate and there is an outflow of evapoconcentrated water containing high concentrations of toxic constituents (Atkinson 2002) Questions that commonly arise about ... ultraviolet radiation, aldehyde treatment, ozonization, acidification–volatilization–neutralization, ion exchange, activated carbon absorption, electrolytic decomposition, catalytic oxidation, treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... Korea Abandoned Au-Ag-Mo mine; maximum concentrations; Songcheon Tailings Farmland soil Cabbage Stream waters 2898_book.fm Page 228 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:14 PM 228 PERSPECTIVES ON GOLD AND GOLD ... Table 12.1 (continued) Arsenic Concentrations in Biota and Abiotic Materials Collected Near Gold Mining and Processing Facilities Location and Sample Abandoned Au-Ag-Cu-Zn mine; Dongil Tailings ... nutrition Extent of animal adaptation to arsenicals and the mechanisms of action Identification and quantification of mineral and chemical forms of arsenic in rocks, soils, and sediments that constitute...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... Lim, H-S., J.S Lee, and H.T Chon 2003 Arsenic and heavy metal contamination in the vicinity of abandoned Songcheon Au-Ag-Mo mine, Korea 6th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry, ... U.S Forest Service (USFS) considers abandoned mines unique subterranean habitat and is actively acquiring and managing lands containing abandoned mines, including abandoned gold mines, as protected ... offer additional protection to species of concern (Saugey et al 1988) Monitoring and research efforts now seem warranted on the suitability of abandoned underground gold mines and environs as habitat...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... reclamation to control erosion, landslides, and water runoff (Galloway and Perry 1997) Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act This act attempts to minimize environmental impacts from coal mining and ... operations by taking such measures as will prevent or control on- site and off-site damage to the environment and forest surface resources, including: control of erosion and landslides; control ... reclamation standards for contaminated discharges from abandoned mines that may affect water sources (Da Rosa and Lyon 1997) The CWA established the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21