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Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Anthrax, tetanus, rabies, meningitis, encephalitis, cerebral trypanosomiasis, piroplasmosis, theileriosis, listeriosis, parasitism poisoning by strychnine, lead, organophosphates, arsenic, and various plants that affect the central nervous system. 

MEDICINAL PLANTS THAT AFFECT THE NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE... 

VIII. Plants that affect the blood 396 IX. Plants that affect reproduction 401... 

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) United Engineering Center 345 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017 The ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, under the cognisance of the ASME PoHcy Board, Codes, and Standards, considers the interdependence of design procedures, material selection, fabrication procedures, inspection, and test methods that affect the safety of boilers, pressure vessels, and nuclear-plant components, whose failures could endanger the operators or the pubHc (see Nuclearreactors). It does not cover other aspects of these topics that affect operation, maintenance, or nonha2ardous deterioration. 

Other factors that affect either production cost or the consumption of fertilisers tend to be periodic and short-Hved. On the consumption side, weather conditions, prices of fertilisers, and the pohtical stabiUty of a region influence demand. The supply side is influenced by raw material availabihty, rehabihty of infrastmcture, on-stream efficiency, age of plants, and the constmction or modernisation of existing plants. 

Hazardous Air Pollutants. Tide 3 of the CAAA of 1990 addresses the release of hazardous air poUutants (HAPs) by requiring both the identification of major stationary sources and area source categories for 189 toxic chemicals and the promulgation of control standards. Major sources of air toxics, also referred to as HAPs, include any stationary source or group of sources emitting 10 or more tons/yr of any single Hsted toxic chemical or 25 tons/yr of a combination of any Hsted toxic. Area sources of HAPs include smaller plants that emit less than the 10 or 20 tons/yr thresholds. The major sources of HAPs are typically industrial faciHties. However, Tide 3 requites the EPA to study potential health affects associated with emissions of HAPs from electric UtiHty boilers (11). 

Once in the soil solution, urea—formaldehyde reaction products are converted to plant available nitrogen through either microbial decomposition or hydrolysis. Microbial decomposition is the primary mechanism. The carbon in the methylene urea polymers is the site of microbial activity. Environmental factors that affect soil microbial activity also affect the nitrogen availabiUty of UF products. These factors include soil temperature, moisture, pH, and aeration or oxygen availabiUty. 

A receptor is something which is adversely affected by polluted air. A receptor may be a person or animal that breathes the air and whose health may be adversely affected thereby, or whose eyes may be irritated or whose skin made dirty. It may be a tree or plant that dies, or the growth yield or appearance of which is adversely affected. It may be some material such as paper, leather, cloth, metal, stone, or paint that is affected. Some properties of the atmosphere itself, such as its ability to transmit radiant energy, may be affected. Aquatic life in lakes and some soils are adversely affected by acidification via acidic deposition. 

The H AZOP leader selects an appropriate aspect of the plant s process systems (a process node) and associated systems that affect the selected process variable for the selected mode of plant operation. The selection may be made fiom the plant system classification, or it may be from the nodal analysis of the process. 

The PRA procedures guide, NUREG/ CR-23(X), partitions human reliability analysis (HRA) into four phases (Figure 4.5-1). The familiarization phase, evaluates a sequence of events to identify human actions that directly affect critical process components. From plant visits and review, this part of HRA identifies plant-specific factors that affect human performance such as good or bad procedures used in the. sequence under consideration. The familiarization phase notes items overlooked during systems evaluation. 

PHA is required for new systems that are designed and construction for the Department of Defense (MrL-STD-882A) it is useful for initial PSA of any system (Lambert, 1975). A PHA is a tabular listing of possible accident initiators, the parts of the plant that could be affected and possible effects of an accident. Because a PHA is performed before a PSA,... 

The analysis of human actions is complicated because a human is a responsive system like a servo. Such analysis does not lend itself to simple models as do inanimate components. Classifying human actions into the success or failure states used in logic models for plant equipment dix. s not account for the wide range of possible human actions. A generally applicable model of the parameters that affect human performance is not yet available. 

The first perspective is the traditional safety engineering approach (Section 2.4). This stresses the individual factors that give rise to accidents and hence emphasizes selection, together with motivational and disciplinary approaches to accident and error reduction. The main emphasis here is on behavior modification, through persuasion (motivational campaigns) or pimishment. The main area of application of this approach has been to occupational safety, which focuses on hazards that affect the individual worker, rather than process safety, which emphasizes major systems failures that could cause major plant losses and impact to the environment as well as individual injury. 

One feature of the new law is an SO, trading allowance program that encourages the use of market-based principles to reduce pollution. Utilities may trade allowances within their system and/or buy or sell allowances to and from other affected sources. For example, plants that emit SO, at a rate below 1.2 Ib/million Btu will be able to increase emissions by 20 percent between a baseline year and the year 2000. Also, bonus allowances will be distributed to accommodate growth by units in states with a statewide average below 0.8 Ib/million Btu. 

Automatic trending The software program should be capable of automatically storing all acquired data and updating the trends of all variables. This capability should include multiple parameters not just a broadband or single variable. This will enable the user to display trends of all variables that affect plant operations. 

Inadequate FW deaeration is a common cause of serious corrosion problems that affect many hundreds (if not thousands) of boiler plants of all sizes around the world. Despite the abundance of available literature advising the need to eliminate oxygen from boiler FW, inadequate deaeration continues to cause permanent waterside damage. 

The human impact on the environment affects many areas of our lives and future. One example is the effect of acid rain on biodiversity, the diversity of living things. In the prairies that extend across the heartlands of North America and Asia, native plants have evolved that can survive even nitrogen-poor soil and drought. By studying prairie plants, scientists hope to breed food plants that will be hardy sources of food in times of drought. However, acid rain is making some of these plants extinct. 

Surprisingly, very little physiological work has been done to understand the nature and processes of plant recovery from extreme drought stress, especially in relation to plant production (Chapter 7). In order for the plant to recover properly from severe water stress, its various meristems must survive. The association between severe plant stress and the factors that affect meristem survival and function upon rehydration are unclear though osmoregulation may have a possible protective role and as a potential source of carbon for recovery. Active plant apices generally excel in osmoregulation and do not lose much water upon plant dehydration (Barlow, Munns Brady, 1980). 

Throughput is in simple terms the average saleable production output per a given time unit. Cycle time is the average time between the release and completion of a job, in other words, the rate at which products are manufactured. Key parameters that affect throughput in a chemical plant include the chemical conversion, yield, capacity and availability of existing equipment, process time, cycle time, number of chemical steps, number of unit operations, plant layout, warehouse processes, raw material availability, process bottlenecks and labour availability, amongst others. 

There are numerous constraints and factors that affect procedures for design of multiproduct and multipurpose plants ... 

Root products represent a vast array of predominantly organic compounds. Of these, secretions represent a small proportion, but they are deemed the most likely of all root products to have a direct effect on the growth of the plant that produced them. When a secretion is released by a root, all the following are likely to affect its behavior. 

Grimmer ( 4) recatmended that special terms be used for the allelopathic chemicals based on where they are produced and which plants are affected by them. These special terms include ... 

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