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Toxicological Risk Assessment for Beginners
This book serves as a comprehensive introductory guide to the practical aspects of risk assessment. Chapters include clearly defined objectives and summaries. The book includes: hazard identification, dose-response, exposure assessment, risk characterization, chemical mixtures, epidemiology, emerging issues and global perspectives with accessible language. The book concludes with a set of hypot…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-12750-7
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- XXV, 250
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Sustainable Development and CSR in China
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility, gathering contributions by authors from various countries, cultures and political systems. It provides readers with a better understanding of the concept and its implementation in China by pursuing an international approach. The respective contributions examine Corporate Social Responsibility in terms of its close ties to…
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- 978-3-319-17371-9
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- XI, 133
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- CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
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Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2016
This volumes consists of 59 peer-reviewed papers, presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM-16) held in Chania, Crete Greece in April 2016. Leading-edge research into sustainable design and manufacturing aims to enable the manufacturing industry to grow by adopting more advanced technologies, and at the same time improve its sustainability by reduci…
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- 978-3-319-32098-4
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- XII, 689
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- Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
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Toxicological Effects of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
This book serves as a timely and comprehensive overview of the latest science for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), covering the development of methods for assessing PFASs in biological fluids and tissues as well as the current knowledge regarding their toxicity to vertebrate organisms. This book includes chapters on human and wildlife exposure/body burdens, reviews of meta…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-15518-0
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- XIII, 495
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- Molecular and Integrative Toxicology
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Sustainable Design
This book is concerned with the importance of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability, user participants, and Sustainability in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry throughout the world. ICT has become a crucial instrument for communication, entertainment, commerce and research and this increased usage is presenting new environmental and sustainability issues as we try an…
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- 978-1-4471-6753-2
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- XII, 181
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Toxicity and Autophagy in Neurodegenerative Disorders
Comprehensive overview of different aspects of autophagy as it relates to neurodegenerative diseases. The pathogenesis of the main neurodegenerative disorders includes either the accumulation of altered or misfolded proteins or exposure to several toxics. Autophagy constitute one of the two principal cellular pathways implicate in the clearance of these material and can serve as a neuroprotecti…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13939-5
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- XV, 268
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- Current Topics in Neurotoxicity
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Toxic Trauma
Winner of BMA Medical Book Award, Highly Commended in Public Health Written for medical professionals, this book provides a concise reference with clear guidelines on how to manage both the victims of chemical agent exposure and the site of the incident. David Baker considers the nature and basic science of the hazards faced as well as the practical management of persons exposed to chemicals a…
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- 2
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- 978-3-319-40916-0
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- XXIII, 238
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Sustainable Crop Protection under Protected Cultivation
This book focuses on pests (insect and mite) and diseases (fungal, bacterial, viral and nematode) in protected horticulture (fruits, vegetables and ornamentals) using physical, cultural, chemical, biological, host resistance, and integrated methods. It opens with chapters describing the setting in which integrated pest and disease control operates, i.e., the greenhouse and its environment. Subs…
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- 978-981-287-952-3
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- XXX, 434
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Toxic Pollutants in China
The book presents some of the findings of research into China’s water quality criteria for toxic pollutants, including heavy metals, PAHs and emerging pollutant. Water quality criteria (WQC) are the scientific basis for establishing water quality standards (WQSs). For a long time, the study of WQC in China has been neglected, so that almost all of China’s WQSs were developed based on foreig…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-9795-5
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- VII, 140
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- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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Geometric Science of Information
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Geometric Science of Information, GSI 2015, held in Palaiseau, France, in October 2015. The 80 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions and are organized into the following thematic sessions: Dimension reduction on Riemannian manifolds; optimal transport; optimal…
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- 978-3-319-25039-7
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- 006.3 GEO
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