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A.G. Hackett, J.D. Puhrman, and C.T Stone, Acetochlor surface-water monitoring program results to date, Presented at the 218th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, August 22-26, 1999. 

Table 13.4 National Residue Monitoring Program Results for Antibiotics and Ivermectin over the Period 1992-1994 in the United States...

Table 13.9 Monitoring Program Results of the 1996 National Residue Program in...

The results of the assessment are documented in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which discusses the beneficial and adverse impacts considered to result from the activity. The report is one component of the information upon which the decision maker ultimately makes a choice. A final decision can be made with due regard being paid to the likely consequences of adopting a particular course of action, and where necessary by introducing appropriate monitoring programs. 

Perhaps the most unusual aspect of the compiler is that it would make compile time decisions about the most likely outcome of a comparison operation and generate code to foUow that most likely path. The compiler would insert compensation code to undo calculations already done if the branch were other than predicted. In addition, it was possible to execute a program and monitor the results of branch decisions. Armed with more accurate information about the likely outcome of conditional branches, the compiler could then generate better code, because its "guesses" would be correct more often. 

Because technician involvement is reduced to a minimum level, the normal tendency is to use untrained or partially trained personnel for this repetitive function. Unfortunately, the lack of training results in less awareness and knowledge of visual and audible clues that can, and should be, an integral part of the monitoring program. 

Persistent organic pollutants (POP) and heavy metals were in the focus of interest until the begiiming of the 1990s and intensive monitoring programs and ecotoxico-logical studies had been conducted. As a result, due to adoption of appropriate measures and elimination of the dominant pollution sources a drastic reduction of emission of these nonpolar hazardous compounds have been achieved and today these compounds are less relevant for the industrialized countries. 

Juhler RK, Lauridsen MG, Christensen MR, et al. 1999b. Pesticide residues in selected food commodities Results from the Danish National Pesticide Monitoring Program 1995-1996. J AOAC Int 82(2) 337-358. 

The HPLC method (7) for the PSP toxins has a variety of applications in both research and in public health monitoring programs. A number of advances in our understanding of the biochemistry of PSP are a direct result of this technique. Following is a brief overview of the HPLC method with a couple of examples of its utility in PSP research. 

The Company and Spokane County Health Department Immediately contacted all well owners In the vicinity and tested the wells for cyanide contamination. The Company made bottled water available to the affected people on a temporary basis until a permanent uncontaminated supply could be obtained. A ground water monitoring program of selected wells was developed to verify the expected changes resulting from these remedial actions. Additional wells were Installed around the covered pile to support this monitoring program. 

Policy makers would benefit from a combination of strong field evidence of trends and well-established models to draw upon when assessing the benefits of past or future policy decisions. Models of mercury cycling and bioaccumulation are not yet adequately predictive across a range of conditions and landscapes. Results from a national mercury monitoring program, if carefully designed, offer the potential to... 

Pesticides in Selected Water-supply Reservoirs and Einished Drinking Water, 1999-2000 Summary of Results from a Pilot Monitoring Program. Open-File Report 01-456. US Geological Survey, Washington, DC (2001). Also available on the World Wide Web http //md.water.usgs.gov/nawqa/, accessed September 2002. 

XRF is widely used in production control, e.g. for the determination of catalyst residues in polyolefins [270], Table 8.48 shows the typical results of a standardless analysis of PP. Industrial XRF analyses of additives in polymers (QC) are usually carried out by either calibration curve or monitor programming. Use of calibration curves allows measuring the full additive concentration range, and is not restricted to a given additive. Consequently, there is no need to implement a new calibration curve upon adjustments of additive or additive contents. For a calibration curve, at least... 

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