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Guest Editorial: Noise and Health
Noise affects everybody in everyday life—at home, at leisure, during sleep, when traveling, and at work. However, human organisms are not prepared to shut off the noise. Hearing is a permanent process using cortical and subcortical structures to filter and interpret acousti-cal information; the analysis of acoustical signals is essential for human survival and communication. Noise is detrimenta...
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of concern about the health and environmental effects of burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil to produce electrical energy in recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in nuclear power stations as a " carbon-free " method of generating electricity. For example, an interdisciplinary study titled The Future of Nuclear Energy, released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
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متن کاملGuest Editorial: Fertilizers, Water Quality, and Human Health
cation rates are staggering and greatly exceed the amounts absorbed by plants. For example, the average amount of nitrogen applied to corn in the Midwest is approximately 160 kg/hectare/year, and in California > 200 kg/hectare/year is added to more than 3 million cultivated hectares [U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 1991, 2003]. The geochemical fate of this excess nitrate is complex, but i...
متن کاملGuest Editorial: Health, Equity, and the Built Environment
of Silent Spring in 1962. In her classic book, Rachel Carson warned of the effects of pesticides on wildlife ecology, invoking a nightmarish die-off of songbirds in the book’s title. However, she also warned of human health effects, both acute and chronic, from liver damage to neurotoxicity to cancer (Carson 1962). In the ensuing decades, environmental health essentially became synonymous with ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Development
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1011-6370,1461-7072
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.development.1100049