Informational Retrieval System

Devise better information retrieval systems so that details of past accidents, in our own and other companies, and the recommendations made afterward are more easily accessible than at present. 

In addition to chemicals covered under TRI, many other chemicals are released. For example, the EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards has compiled air pollutant emission factors for determining the total air emissions of priority pollutants (e.g., VOCs, SO, NO, CO, particulates, etc.) from many refinery sources. The EPA Office of Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS) contains a wide range of information related to stationary sources of air pollution, including the emissions of a number of air pollutants which may be of concern within a particular industry. With the exception of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), there is little overlap with the TRI chemicals reported above. 

Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS) a eomputer-based repository of U.S. air pollution information administered by the EPA Offiee of Air Quality Planning and Standards. 

Computerized information retrieval system that aids the Army and other government agencies in preparing environmental impact statements. 

Data files on the THERdbASE CD are 1990 Bureau of Census Population Information, California Adult Activity Pattern Study (1987-88), AT T-sponsored National Activity Pattern Study (1985), Chemical Agents from Sources, Chemical Agent Properties, Air Exchange Rates, Information from EPA s TEAM (Total Exposure Assessment Methodology) Studies, Information from EPA s NOPES (NonOccupational Pesticides Exposure Study) Studies, Information from EPA s AIRS (Aerometric Information Retrieval System), and Human Physiological Parameters. 

NPIRS - National Pesticide Information Retrieval System... 

Air Risk Infomiation Support Center (Air RISC), 301 AIRS - Aeronietric Information Retrieval System, 304 Aisonscliem 150... 

NPIRS. 1986. National Pesticide Information Retrieval System (database). Chemical fact sheet for Methyl parathion. U S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs, Washington, DC December, 1986. 

NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NIOSHTICNIOSH s Computerized Information Retrieval System ng nanogram... 

Entrez (http //www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez), information retrieval system, integrating NCBI databases of protein and nucleotide sequences, genomes, macromolecular stmctures, and MEDLINE literature database. 

HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank). 2000. MEDLARS Onhne Information Retrieval System, National Library of Medicine, retrieved 9/6/00. 

As mentioned earlier, chemical composition and identification information should already have been obtained before the chemical is to be searched. With most information retrieval systems this is a relatively straightforward procedure. Citations on a given subject may be retrieved by entering the desired free text terms as they... 

No part of this ebook may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, xerography, or any other means, or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the publisher. 

It would be highly desirable to reduce the individual facts in an information retrieval system to general principles just as the chemist has done in devising his empirical concepts mentioned pre-r viously. Such a reduction of information to its essential contents asks for insights, to transform information to knowledge. 

Selected entries from Methods in Enzymology [vol, page(s)] Databases and Resources Information services of European Bioinformatics Institute, 266, 3 TDB new databases for biological discovery, 266, 27 PIR-international protein sequence database, 266, 41 superfamily classification in PIR-international protein sequence database, 266, 59 gene classification artificial neural system, 266, 71 blocks database and its applications, 266, 88 indexing and using sequence databases, 266, 105 SRS information retrieval system for molecular biology data banks, 266, 114. 

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