REACH, the new European chemicals legislation, is in its fifth consecutive year of construction. The discussion of its main features has not yet reached a state that gives confidence that the act can enter into force by 2007, as currently envisaged by Council, Commission and Parliament of the European Union. What are the reasons for this controversial discussion? The most conflicting views seem...

Chemical hazards are one of the most dangerous hazards occurring in any industries that uses them. Several devastating effects like explosion, environmental pollution, asphyxiation, acid burns, and skin disorders, chronic and acute conditions of several diseases might occur due to the leakage of the poisonous chemicals. This project deals in the control of the chemical hazards in a Stainless St...

Phase I. Discovering the new construct’s domain space (i.e., the relevant associated behaviors within the environment encompassed by the proposed construct) (determine the key behaviors that best represent a construct, from the perspective of the theory-based literature, experts, and target participants for whom the construct is being defined) Step 1a. Behavioral elicitation through literature ...

This paper presents the perspective of a range of practising South African artists on the contextual factors influencing the recent surge in artistic creativity and innovation in their country. In particular, the ‘edginess’ of the everyday contexts of artistic endeavour is seen as a source of transformative learning for those having the courage to engage with it. Through such ‘dangerous’ learni...

In the United Kingdom in 1989 a group of gay men who had been engaging in consensual SM activities were put on trial and found guilty of assault. The dominants/tops were charged with assault, and the men who participated in the activities as "bottoms" or submissives were convicted of aiding and abetting assaults upon themselves. This article discusses these Spanner trials--as they came to be ca...

In view of the situation that bridge deck drainage cannot be diverted to both ends for centralized collection due longitudinal slope change bridge, or there is no accident pool space at this paper relies on section G8513 Pingliang Mianyang National Highway Wudu Jiuzhaigou (Ganchuan boundary). An intelligent system consisting prefabricated linear ditch, electrically controlled valve and operatio...

The main purpose of the study was to ascertain the attitude of rural elite farmers towards extension activities performed by Upazilla Agricultural Extension personnel of DAE and to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their extent of attitude towards those extension activities under reference. The study was conducted in two unions, namely Ratanpur...