Scientific and Practical Commentary on Specialists’ Professional Standards in Thermal

Commentary: Flawed scientific-evidence standards delay diesel regulations.

Of 188 government-monitored air toxics, diesel particulate matter (DPM) causes seven times more cancer than all the other 187 air toxics combined, including benzene, lead, and mercury. Yet, DPM is the only air toxic not regulated more stringently under the Clean Air Act, as a hazardous air pollutant (HAP). One reason is that regulators use flawed standards of scientific evidence. The article ar...

Scientific Commentary

No-one, wrote Frank Beach, a notable contributor to the experimental study of hormones and sexual behaviour, ever died from lack of sex. But the personal, social and legal aspects of sexual behaviour are a pervasive pre-occupation in all humans. The variety and vagaries of sex can have severe implications, and the existence of homosexuality and disorders of gender identity demand some sort of e...

Reference Frames in Practice: the Role of Professional, Scientific, Standards and Commercial Organisations

It is well known that the current, and growing, trend towards the use of satellite positioning systems and global satellite mapping systems to produce position-based products in a global reference frame can introduce serious practical difficulties if the results need to be related to older maps and/or digital data. Special problems arise, for instance, in the fields of navigation, map revision,...

the role of semantic and communicative translation on reading comprehension of scientific texts

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

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