And environmental movement

Society s shaping of the nature and scope of a manufacturer s common law duty to warn has been strongly influenced by the consumer and environmental movement and initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s. The prudent manufacturer will take into consideration the fact that not only... 

The question of how well zoo visitors perceptions, goals and aspirations, arising from the burgeoning conservation and environmental movement favored by the... 

Poly(31) has attracted considerable attention over the years because of practical biomedical applications such as contact lenses, coating of surgical sutures, hydrogels, and hemodialysis membranes. The success of the living anionic polymerization of protected monomers, 3 la-3 Id, opens the way to newly design well-defined amphiphilic block copolymers with more potential applications. A series of block copolymers of 31a with styrene, a-methylstyrene, 4-octylstyrene, or isoprene were synthesized and their surface structures and environmental movements were characterized in detail by TEM, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and contact angle measurements. The surface reconstruction was clearly observed... 

Observed recovery in raptors has been slow owing to their lifecycle this is also an indication of the environmental movement and dispersal of endocrine disrupting chemicals from areas of intense agriculture to the aquatic environmental... 

Class I The Class I BSC provides personnel and environmental protection, but no product protection. It is similar in air movement to a chemical fume cupboard, but has a HEPA filter (see Chapter 9) in the exhaust system to protect the environment (Fig. 10.94). In the Class 1 BSC, unfiltered room air is drawn across the work surface. Personnel protection is provided by this inward air velocity as long as a minimum velocity of 0.37 m s" is maintained through the front opening (see the discussion on fume cupboards in Section 10.2.3.3). In many cases Class I BSCs are used specifically to enclose equipment. 

Clean room A room in which the environmental conditions of air purity, temperature, moisture content and air movement are maintained to High and accurate standards. 

Lntts, R. H. (1985). Chemical Fallout Rachel Carson s Silent Spring, Radioactive Fallout and the Environmental Movement. Environmental Histoiy Review 9 210—225. 

Laboratory tests, although often necessarily conducted under conditions that are not met in service, nevertheless have a number of advantages over the other types of tests. Because conditions can be controlled at will it is possible to identify the separate effects of a number of factors on the corrosion behaviour. These factors include the type and condition of the metal surface, the environmental composition, temperature and pressure, movement of the specimen relative to the environment, time of exposure and so on. Laboratory tests, at least in principle, also enable comparisons to be made under identical conditions of the relative corrosion behaviour of... 

Jacobsen, B. H., and Edgley B. M., Effects of caffeine on simple reaction time and movement time. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine 58, 1153-1156, 1987. 

Control of environmental factors is important to product quality. Air quality and air movement, care and maintenance of the area, and personnel movement and attire are of particular importance. 

In response to conditions in Leblanc towns the beginnings of an environmental movement developed. Among the social reformers and writers who protested were Charles Dickens, Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell, and Emile Zola. 

Muller s invention launched both the synthetic pesticide industry that exploited his discovery and the environmental movement that opposed its use. Yet Paul Muller, a shy and determined nature lover, shared many of the same reservations about using DDT in the environment that Rachel Carson popularized in her best seller, Silent Spring, 14 years later. In the 1990s, three decades after DDT was banned in most of the industrialized world, international health workers revived the debate over its use. DDT is a cheap and effective insecticide against malaria, which kills nearly three million people annually, most of them young children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Riley D. Dunlap and Angela G. Mertig, eds. American Environmentalism. The U.S. Environmental Movement 1970-1990. Philadelphia Taylor Francis, 1992. 

Cramped spaces and those with poorly placed materials increase the potential for accidental releases due to constricted and awkward movement in these areas. A determination should be made as to whether materials can be stored in a more organized and safer manner (e.g., stacked, stored in bulk as opposed to individual containers, etc.). The proximity of materials to their place of use should also be evaluated. Equipment and materials used in a particular area should be stored nearby for convenience, but should not hinder the movement of workers or equipment. This is especially important for waste products. Where waste conveyance is not automatic, waste receptacles should be located as close as possible to the waste generation areas, thereby preventing inappropriate disposal leading to environmental releases. 

Goolsby, D.A., Geochemical effects and movement of injected industrial waste in a limestone aquifer, in Symposium on Underground Waste Management and Environmental Implications, Houston, Texas, Cook, T.D., Ed., Am. Assn. Petr. Geol. Mem., 18, pp. 355-368, 1972. 

Mawdsley J L, Bardgett R D, Merry R J, Pain B F and Theodorou M K (1995), Pathogens in livestock waste, their potential for movement through soil and environmental pollution ,... 

Silver occurs naturally in several oxidation states, the most common being elemental silver (Ag°) and the monovalent ion (Ag+). Soluble silver salts are, in general, more toxic than insoluble salts. In natural waters, the soluble monovalent species is the form of environmental concern. Sorption is the dominant process that controls silver partitioning in water and its movements in soils and sediments. As discussed later, silver enters the animal body through inhalation, ingestion, mucous membranes, and broken skin. The interspecies differences in the ability of animals to accumulate, retain, and eliminate silver are large. Almost all of the total silver intake is usually... 

For ammonia, the commonly employed molybdenum blue method was examined. In this case, there were a number of issues. For example, the standard method requires the use of phenol and hypochlorite. Phenol is unsuitable for health, safety and environmental reasons, and hypochlorite is commonly regarded as unstable. We found that salicylate could be substituted for phenol, with little affect on sensitivity and a relatively small movement of the absorbance maximum, and hypochlorite is stable if stored carefully, and there is very low contamination by certain catalytic metals that accelerate decomposition, such as copper and iron [20]. 

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was signed into law in late 1976. It was a bitterly-debated piece of legislation it arose at the height of the combined environmental concern and "cancerphobia" fears distinctive of that time. In order to understand how corporations have responded to TSCA, it is important to recall the situation at that time in the knowledge of carcinogenesis, in the environmental movement, in the political scene and, finally, in the corporations themselves. 

At the same time that this increased awareness to environmental carcinogens arose, the environmental movement was in full bloom. Since its established political goals were quite consistent with environmental carcinogen fears, the two were quite complementary. The history and development of the environmental movement are a fascinating and complex story in itself however, it is not an appropriate subject for this paper. Let it suffice to say that it was the combination of the cancer fears and the environmental movement that gave the political strength to pass TSCA into law. 

The oil crisis and the rising environmental movement of the early 1970s stopped the growth of these gas-guzzlers. To some the car ceased to express the good life and began to become a threat to the future of society. 

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