Knowledge, behaviour

Persson M, Sabelstrom E, Gunnarsson B (2009) Handling of unused prescription drugs -knowledge, behaviour and attitude among Swedish people. Environ Int 35 771-774... 

Abdul Aziz, A., Mohd-Yusof K., Udin, A., Abdul Latif A., Mohamed Yatim, J. (2013b). Development of students knowledge-behavioural changes in relation to sustainability through a case study. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 102, 568 576. doi 10.1016/j.sb-spro.2013.10.773. 

Gardner, D., Carlopio, J., Fonteyn, P.N. Cross, J.A. 1999. Mechanical equipment injuries in small manufacturing businesses. Knowledge, behavioural, and management issues. International Journal of Occupational Safety and... 

The chemical shift of a nucleus depends in part on its spatial position in relation to a bond or a bonding system. The knowledge of such anisotropic effects is useful in structure elucidation. An example of the anisotropic effect would be the fact that axial nuclei in cyclohexane almost always show smaller H shifts than equatorial nuclei on the same C atom (illustrated in the solutions to problems 37, 47, 48, 50 and 51). The y-effect also contributes to the corresponding behaviour of C nuclei (see Section 2.3.4). 

If the dynamic behaviour of a physical system can be represented by an equation, or a set of equations, this is referred to as the mathematical model of the system. Such models can be constructed from knowledge of the physical characteristics of the system, i.e. mass for a mechanical system or resistance for an electrical system. Alternatively, a mathematical model may be determined by experimentation, by measuring how the system output responds to known inputs. 

According to the Oxford dictionary, the word intelligence is derived from intellect, which is the faculty of knowing, reasoning and understanding. Intelligent behaviour is therefore the ability to reason, plan and learn, which in turn requires access to knowledge. 

By 1969, when a major survey (Thompson 1969) was published, the behaviour of point defeets and also of dislocations in crystals subject to collisions with neutrons and to the eonsequential collision cascades had become a major field of researeh. Another decade later, the subjeet had developed a good deal further and a highly quantitative body of theory, as well as of phenomenological knowledge, had been assembled. Gittus (1978) published an all-embracing text that eovered a number of new topics chapter headings include Bubbles , Voids and Irradi-ation(-enhanced) Creep . 

Hazard recognition and assessment always start from a knowledge of the individual properties of a chemical. What this may include is exemplified by Table 1.3. Additional properties, including those in Table 1.4, are relevant to environmental hazards, e.g. relating to behaviour on spillage or emission, and determination of permissible levels for disposal to air, land or water systems. Other properties may be relevant, e.g. odour which can serve as an, albeit often unreliable, means of detection. (Refer to Table 5.12.)... 

Occupational health advice as part of primary health care nursing The fracture behaviour of polyethylene - A literature review First aid retention of knowledge survey... 

For some plastics, particularly nylon, the moisture content can have a significant effect on the creep behaviour. For such plastics, creep curves are normally available in the wet and dry states and a knowledge of the service conditions enables the appropriate data to be used. 

In this book no prior knowledge of plastics is assumed. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the structure of plastics and it provides an insight to the way in which their unique structure affects their performance. There is a resume of the main types of plastics which are available. Chapter 2 deals with the mechanical properties of unreinforced and reinforced plastics under the general heading of deformation. The time dependent behaviour of the materials is introduced and simple design procedures are illustrated. Chapter 3 continues the discussion on properties but concentrates on fracture as caused by creep, fatigue and impact. The concepts of fracture mechanics are also introduced for reinforced and unreinforced plastics. 

As an example of the way in which these data could be used, the temperatures at which carbides separate from an 18/8 stainless steel are calculated for carbon contents of 01, 0-01, 0 001 and 0-0001 wt /o. These calculations, which of necessity involve several approximations due to our present lack of knowledge, demonstrate the value of the thermodynamic approach to problems involving the precipitation of phases which may have a pronounced effect on the corrosion behaviour of the alloy (see Section 3.3). 

The overall design process depends on the use of codes of practice and specifications, and to an increasing extent on computer-based techniques. The potential cost of delay is therefore a strong incentive to the use of standard solutions, compatible with the codes of practice , and to develop ways of using the computer to provide corrosion information and knowledge, or to improve prediction of corrosion behaviour. Note that both points relate to the use of existing knowledge, in the sense of an important conclusion of the Hoar Report. ... 

Space does not permit a survey of all the various weldable metals and their associated problems, although some suggestions are made in Table 9.9. It is sufficient to state that with a knowledge of the general characteristics of the welding process and its effects on a metal (e.g. type of thermal cycle imposed, residual stress production of crevices, likely weldability problems) and of the corrosion behaviour of a material in the environment under consideration, a reliable joint for a particular problem will normally be the rule and not the exception. 

The potentiostat is particularly useful in determining the behaviour of metals that show active-passive transition. Knowledge of the nature of passivity and the probable mechanisms involved has accumulated more rapidly since the introduction of the potentiostatic technique. Perhaps of more importance for the subject at hand are the practical implications of this method. We now have a tool which allows an operational definition of passivity and a means of determining the tendency of metals to become passive and resist corrosion under various conditions. 

In order to fully understand the electrochemical behaviour of AB, hydrides, a knowledge of their chemical properties is required. Van Vucht et al. [25] were the first to prepare LaNi5 hydride and it is arguably the most thoroughly investigated H—storage compound. It reacts rapidly with hydrogen at room temperature at a pressure of several atmospheres above the equilibrium plateau pressure. PC isotherms for this system are shown in Fig. 3. 

The monomers considered in this section possess an olefinic bond conjugated to the ring through the C-2 position. The parent compound, 2-vinylfuran, and some of its methylated homologues are probably the best understood monomers of the furan series in terms of their behaviour and peculiarities in different polymerization systems. This consideration is of course relative, i.e. the knowledge acquired on these compounds in recent years allows the formulation of certain conclusions with a high degree of confidence and this is already exceptional in the field covered by this review. 

Then, the three-layer model provides an easy method for evaluating the characteristics of the mesophase, by introducing a significant flexibility in the study of the physical behaviour of particulates. The drawback of the model is its instability to the values of the thermal expansions and the moduli of the composite, which must be evaluated with very high accuracy, fact which is a difficult task. Small deviations in measuring the a s and the E s may vary considerably the balance of characteristic values of the composite. However, the introduction of the influence of the mesophase to the physical behaviour of the composite, made in this model, is a certain advancement in the knowledge of the behaviour of these complicated substances. 

Except for large scale accidental releases (e.g. nuclear explosions or catastrophic accidents at nuclear plants), water will be the main transport medium of plutonium to man. Therefore the size and location of plutonium sources, its pathways to man and its behaviour in natural waters are essential knowledge required for the evaluation of its ecological impact. That information, combined with radiological health standards, allows an assessment of the overall risk to the public from plutonium e.g. from a waste repository for spent unreprocessed reactor fuel elements in deep granite bedrock (8, 9). ... 

Of course, knowledge of the entire spectrum does provide more information. If the shape of the wings of G (co) is established correctly, then not only the value of tj but also angular momentum correlation function Kj(t) may be determined. Thus, in order to obtain full information from the optical spectra of liquids, it is necessary to use their periphery as well as the central Lorentzian part of the spectrum. In terms of correlation functions this means that the initial non-exponential relaxation, which characterizes the system s behaviour during free rotation, is of no less importance than its long-time exponential behaviour. Therefore, we pay special attention to how dynamic effects may be taken into account in the theory of orientational relaxation. 

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