Proper management of infectious waste containing radioactive material depends on three program elements. First, screening methods are required to identify medical waste containing radioactive material. Second, a means of managing the volume of waste identified has to be developed. Management includes identifying the radioisotopes, dealing with the physical requirements of ...

"Confronted with adverse physical conditions, marginal landholdings and scarce non-farming employment opportunities, farmers in the Upper Pokhara Valley had opted for temporary emigration as an alternative strategy for fulfilling their subsistence requirements. This had caused somewhat malign effects on watershed due to dwindling farm management practices and increasing dependency on ...

It is becoming increasingly clear that densities and dynamics of various organisms often cannot be understood from the processes occurring within separate habitat patches. Effects from surrounding areas also have to be considered; a landscape perspective has to be employed. Habitat mosaics affect diversity and dynamics both in pristine and ...

North Carolina, along with the rest of the nation, faces a number of dilemmas regarding management of hazardous waste: 1. North Carolina businesses and industries generate a lot of hazardous waste, but the state lacks the capacity to manage it. For many, it has been acceptable to ship the waste ...

Occupational hazards to vision, hearing, balance, olfaction, and taste typically constitute a small fraction of specialty medical practices in ophthalmology and otolaryngology. With the possible exception of noise-related hearing loss and VDT eye hazards, the scientific literature regarding these hazards tends to be scattered and variably accessible to occupational medicine ...

Management of waste produced during manned space exploration missions will be an important function of advanced life support systems. Waste materials can be thrown away or recovered for reuse. The first approach relies totally on external supplies to replace depleted resources while the second approach regenerates resources internally. The selection ...

An improved type of human waste collection subsystem has been developed for Space Station Freedom which is designed to meet the challenges of zero gravity collection and system performance. Fecal collection is followed by passive storage for relatively short duration missions. The benefits of utilizing components in solid wastes as ...

Faecal samples from sows and their litters, all untreated with anthelmintics, were examined in eight sow herds, ranging from very intensive to very traditional management. Four helminth genera were recorded, namely Oesophagostomum sp., Ascaris suum, Trichuris suis and Strongyloides ransomi. The herds with the most intensive management were only infected ...

This article is the sixth in a series designed to help nurse anesthetists appreciate the clinical applications of equipment and monitoring systems. A brief overview of waste gas management is presented, as well as a description of the anesthesia machine's waste gas interface valve, how it is designed to function, ...

The potential of EDI is virtually unlimited, but the success of any EDI initiative hinges on its ability to directly support strategies that achieve your institution's business objectives. At its most fundamental level, EDI technology automates current business practices, speeding up the exchange of business information. This application of EDI ...

This paper is a guide to the waste management provisions in Part II of the Environmental Protection Act relating to England and Wales. It is not an exhaustive guide; many of the provisions dealing with waste collection and recycling are excluded. Nor should it be treated as definitive; it contains ...

Faculty of the Discipline of Family Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland saw a need to improve the teaching to residents in the management of psychiatric emergencies and in crisis intervention. A short course, entitled "Psychiatric Emergencies and Crisis Intervention" (PEACI), was developed around the common psychiatric emergencies that family ...

In summary, our purpose has been to propose and to demonstrate that the survival of HMOs (in whatever form) depends on the proper identification and management of key stakeholder strategies. It is believed that identification and assessment of key stakeholders holds much promise for improving both HMO management and the ...

Standard waste disposal works are subject to a continuous hygiene control. As a rule, deposited waste is not inert, i.e. substances can be extracted, which in certain quantities and concentrations must be considered as a source of danger to the water. Inflammable, explosive and health endangering gases are formed. The ...

QUESTIONS about the "essence" or boundary of a subject matter are both useful and hazardous. These concerns can coalesce or divide, divert or focus, affirm or degrade. With the hazards in mind, I wish to identify the forms of activity specific to psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts apart from other disciplines and ...

The central focus of the debate over incineration of municipal solid waste (MSW) has shifted from its apparent management advantages to unresolved risk issues. This shift is a result of the lack of comprehensive consideration of risks associated with incineration. We discuss the need to expand incinerator risk assessment beyond ...

Hazardous waste management is a concern for every healthcare organization. A system for managing such waste must meet guidelines from various sources and be comprehensive enough to ensure the safety of the institution's employees and guests, and of the community. An integral part of a hazardous waste management system is ...

Deposition of radionuclides from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Ukraine occurred over much of the United Kingdom. The magnitude of the deposition varied considerably, depending on the prevailing weather, but even in areas of low deposition, iodine-131, caesium-134 and caesium-137 were measurable on pasture and in cows' milk. The ...

The Dairy Herd Management Program has served both dairymen and veterinarians very well over the past several years under a variety of conditions. A number of veterinarians have used the Dairy Herd Management Program to provide computerized dairy record service to their clients. In many of these situations, clients have ...

This article constitutes a report on the use of the flexible sigmoidoscope in family-practice. My experience, coupled with supporting evidence, points out the benefits of flexible over rigid sigmoidoscopy. The flexible sigmoidoscope is easier to use, and the yield of pathology detected is certainly much higher with this instrument.

The successful management and exploitation of fisheries requires detailed knowledge of the population dynamics and life histories of commercial species, and of the factors affecting recruitment and mortality. Much progress has been made in recent years, exemplified by the report of the 1984 Dahlem Workshop on the exploitation of marine ...

By means of semi-structured interviews, this study investigates the work experience of 13 lesbians employed by large corporations. The respondents, who were already discredited for being women, had to manage the further potentially discrediting information of their lesbianism. The author examines the strategies used to manage such information. Because these ...

The paper considers the concept of health and underlying medical model contained within the WHO's regional strategy for Europe. It argues that, for all its virtues and despite the switch from pure bio-medicine towards a more bio-social approach, the strategy is still and perhaps not too surprisingly, technocratic, ahistorical, apolitical ...

We conducted two studies to determine how herd management practices and traits of individual cows affect performance of the herd and of the cow within a herd. Management practices, reproductive performance of the herd, and relationships between management and reproductive performance were characterized on 83 dairy farms with 7596 cows. ...

Although we are all aware of our need to "manage" time, we frequently get bogged down in the many tasks of the job and find that fewer and fewer of our activities relate to the managerial functions of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. This article presents a guide for assessing ...

Anesthetic waste gases are a concern to veterinarians and their personnel. Investigations have shown that many of the anesthetic units used in veterinary medicine have leaks that contribute to operating room contamination. Many others do not have appropriate scavanging attachments to remove escaping gases. Personnel were frequently observed carelessly using ...

The selection of sites to store high-level radioactive waste will require more than technical decisions; an acceptable site must gain widespread public support. Ad hoc approaches have recently served as a stimulus to overcome institutional inertia in radioactive waste management, as exemplified by the Interagency Review Group and the State ...

Various responsibilities and issues must be considered when becoming involved in the management of hazardous wastes. A basic understanding of the problem and control methodologies including the regulatory provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery act (RCRA) is necessary in order to begin the initial phase of the planning process. ...

Components of phenotypic variation in milk yield from interactions between sires and several feeding and management factors were estimated. Milk yield data were first lactation records. Feeding and management data from Illinois Holstein Dairy Herd Improvement herds were obtained by questionnaires. Sire-herd interaction component was 10% of phenotypic variance in ...

On May 19, 1980, EPA promulgated regulations applicable to owners and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities which prohibited the landfill disposal of most containerized liquid waste or waste containing free liquid on and after November 19, 1981. Further on June 29, 1981, EPA amended its hazardous ...

The authors of this article highlight recent government initiatives in the field of hazardous waste management, and present data on the hazardous wastes of a representative clinical chemistry laboratory. They cite a number of reasons why pathologists should begin addressing this issue, and hope that the results of the study ...

The Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] is today revising the regulations for hazardous waste management under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act to exempt certain categories of mixtures of solid wastes and hazardous wastes from the presumption of hazardousness presently contained in the regulations. EPA is taking this action because the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is today promulgating amendments to the hazardous waste management regulations regarding the management of hazardous waste in containers and piles and associated permit regulations (40 CFR Part 264, Subparts I and L, and Part 122, Subpart B). These amendments better tailor the standards to the ...

This rule modifies the Environmental Protection Agency's Guidelines for the Development and Implementation of State Solid Waste Management Plans (40 CFR Part 256) and the Criteria for the Classification of Solid Waste Disposal Facilities and Practices (40 CFR Part 257). The Guidelines are being amended to expand public participation opportunities ...

With all the technological advances in medicine, something is still missing-doctors' responsiveness to patients' total health needs. Studies have shown that patients react more to the way in which they are treated than to the treatment itself. Physicians are often blinded by technology to the true root of a patient's ...

Clinical clerks electing emergency and family medicine rotations during the 1977 and 1978 academic years at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine evaluated their clerkships on the opportunities provided to learn new useful medical knowledge, learn new clinical skills and practice them. All rotations were perceived as providing excellent ...

The federal government plans to rely on a policy of "consultation and concurrence" with state governments in developing nuclear waste repositories. The weaknesses of the concurrence approach are analyzed, and an alternative institutional framework for locating a waste repository is proposed: a siting jury that provides representation for state and ...

The disposal and management of solid wastes are ancient problems. The evolution of practices naturally changed as populations grew and sites for disposal became less acceptable. The central search was for easy disposal at minimum costs. The methods changed from indiscriminate dumping to sanitary landfill, feeding to swine, reduction, incineration, ...

The "hazard" associated with a waste essentially controls the overall engineering approach to finding suitable alternatives for solving potential disposal problems. It should be recognized that all factors affecting environmental equilibrium must be considered, including product sales, process design, financing, pre- and end-of-pipe treatment, residuals management, and ultimate bioaccumulation of ...

The application of strategy as a dynamic process of management is discussed. Strategy is a conceptualization of an organization's (1) longterm objectives, (2) constraints that restrict activities and (3) near-term goals. The characteristics of good strategy and the formulation of strategy are discussed with reference to the hospital pharmacy department.

The term 'emergency' applies to unplanned events that have generated, or had the potential to generate, radioactive wastes that could not be handled locally. Reports of past emergencies form the basis for discussion of future trends in emergency situations, the factors that influence waste management, the technology of waste management ...

In an article on radioactive waste spills at Hanford, Washington (Science, 24 August, p. 730), an estimate that waste storage tanks might remain serviceable for 500 years was erroneously attributed to Herbert M. Parker, then manager of the Hanford Laboratories. The estimate should have been attributed to R. E. Tomlinson, ...

(In En) In the arid regions of Rajasthan, farmers'' traditional strategies for managing their limited soil, water, and nutrient resources include moisture-conservation structures; fallowing; and the use of legumes, animal and crop wastes, and deep tillage. As agriculture intensifies, traditional practices are disappearing and the sustainability of these systems is ...

BioRegional Development Group is a charity established to promote economically viable and environmentally sustainable business activities. Its website provides details of a range of projects some of which are of interest to forest managers and landowners. These include urban forestry, recycling timber waste, charcoal production, hemp production and lavender growing. ...

This European Union website describes progress of the development of an EU strategy. A Council Resolution of 15 December 1998 on a Forestry Strategy for the European Union (OJ C56, 26.2.1999, p. 1) established a framework for forest-related actions in support of sustainable forest management (SFM). Documents relevant to the ...

This report from the Defra Marine and Fisheries Directorate, published in October 2007, sets out the UK's long-term strategy for achieving sustainability in fisheries management whilst successfully balancing economic, social and environmental considerations.

This is the main site of the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests. It hosts several sub-sites including the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit conference of 2002, the Joint Forest Management Programme (a project to involve local people in forest management), 12 autonomous agencies of MoEF, and the Environment and Forests ...

Nurses on registration are expected to have sufficient knowledge and skills in medicine management to practice safely and competently. This article reports on research involving midwifery and nursing students, who were asked to complete a questionnaire related to their experiences of medicines-related training and education, and how it prepared them ...

This article examines the unpleasant side effect of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). What was once the main reason for withdrawing from treatment is now much more tolerable owing to the advent of modern antiemetics. However, because of the improvements in these antiemetics, the focus on CINV appears to have ...

During the period April 1965 to April 1968 observations were made on 285 patients and 357 staff exposed to air and oxygen at pressures of 1 to 3 atmospheres absolute in a hyperbaric unit. Decompression sickness was not noted and an annual radiological skeletal survey failed to show aseptic bone ...