Obstetric problems This is the most widely recognised environmental hazard of anaesthesia but individual opinions, as well as governmental and professional reactions, differ widely. Some feel that not enough is being done about the problem while others maintain either that there is no problem and that much research and finance has been misdirected, or that scavenging devices introduce an unacce...

Losses from environmental flood hazards have escalated in recent decades, prompting a reorientation of emergency management systems away from simple post event response. There is a noticeable change in policy, with more emphasis on loss reduction through mitigation, preparedness, and recovery projects and programs. Effective mitigation of losses from flood hazards requires hazard identification...

Plastics are materials that indispensable and persistent in daily life can be broken down into micro- or nanoplastics. They consist of lengthy polymer chains combined with additives that, when touch various species, may harmful. The matrix, additives, breakdown products, pollutants have been adsorbed all cause toxicity. manufactured from nonrenewable resources, nonbiodegradable by nature, endur...

Infrasound displays a special capacity to affect human health and adaptation because its frequencies and amplitudes converge with those generated by the human body. Muscle sounds and whole-body vibrations are predominately within the 5to 40-Hz range. The typical amplitudes of the oscillations are within 1–50 lm, which is equivalent to the pressures of about 1 Pa and energies in the order of 10 ...

Title of Document: IDENTIFYING LANDSLIDE HAZARDS IN A TROPICAL MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT, USING GEOMORPHOLOGIC AND PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES José Gregorio Roa-Lobo PhD, 2007 Directed By: Prof. Michael Kearney, Department of Geography The objective of this study is the performance, assessing, comparison and validation of a set of three landslide hazard maps: The geomorphological, the multicriteria eva...