Improving Environmental Decision‐Making Through Integrated Governance, Public Engagement, and Translational Approaches

Tutorial: Public Engagement Through Audio Internet Experiments

This tutorial paper details experiences of four public engagement projects that have communicated acoustic science to lay audiences using web experiments. Recent developments in personal computers, the Internet and software platforms offers new and exciting opportunities for engaging publics because technologies routinely allow the reproduction of sound. The projects are psychoacoustic experime...

Governance of environmental risk: new approaches to managing stakeholder involvement.

Disputes concerning industrial legacies such as the disposal of toxic wastes illustrate changing pressures on corporations and governments. Business and governments are now confronted with managing the expectations of a society increasingly aware of the social and environmental impacts and risks associated with economic development and demanding more equitable distribution and democratic manage...

Assessing Risk Through Environmental, Social and Governance Exposures

Fuzzy Sets and Decisionmaking Approaches in Vowel and Speaker Recognition

Some applications based on the theory of fuzzy sets in problems of computer recognition of vowels and identifying the person from his spoken words using only the first three formants (F 1, F2, and F3) of the unknown utterance are presented. Two decision algorithmic methods using weighted-distance functions and property sets are developed and implemented with the optimum size of the training set...

The Environmental Public Health Performance Standards: strengthening the nation's environmental public health infrastructure and improving environmental health practice.

Editor’s note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build part­ nerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Con­ trol and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest au­ thors from across CDC will ...