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This handbook focuses on residential radon exposure from a public health point of view and provides detailed recommendations on reducing health risks from radon and sound policy options for preventing and mitigating radon exposure. The material in the handbook reflects the epidemiological evidence that indoor radon exposure is responsible for a substantial number of lung cancers in the general population. Information is provided on the selection of devices to measure radon levels and on procedures for the reliable measurement of these levels. Discussed also are control options for radon in new dwellings, radon reduction in existing dwellings as well as assessment of the costs and benefits of different radon prevention and remedial actions. Also covered are radon risk communication strategies and organization of national radon programs.--Publisher's description.
Learn how to be more productive with Scala, a new multi-paradigm language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that integrates features of both object-oriented and functional programming. With this book, you'll discover why Scala is ideal for highly scalable, component-based applications that support concurrency and distribution. Programming Scala clearly explains the advantages of Scala as a JVM language. You'll learn how to leverage the wealth of Java class libraries to meet the practical needs of enterprise and Internet projects more easily. Packed with code examples, this book provides useful information on Scala's command-line tools, third-party tools, libraries, and available language-aw...
People spend most of their time indoors, and indoor air pollutants can cause both long and short term health effects. Awareness of indoor air pollution as an environmental issue, however, is relatively new. This book has been prepared to offer an up-to-date, comprehensive reference manual on indoor air quality to scientists and professionals active in this area. The intention of the book is to bring together a collection of contributions from specialists in the specific disciplines of indoor air quality, covering all points of view from various angles, from building design and building sciences, to health effects and medical diagnosis, toxicology of indoor air pollutants, and air sampling an...
Dal 1985, anno della sua fondazione, Hezbollah è diventato un attore centrale nello scacchiere politico e militare del Medio Oriente. Ma come si è evoluto il Partito di Dio, e quali sono le radici ideologiche che ne guidano l’agire? Questo libro offre una ricostruzione accurata e documentata della storia e del pensiero di Hezbollah, analizzando le sue trasformazioni ed evoluzioni, mantenendo come principale punto di riferimento i documenti in arabo pubblicati dagli organi uffi ciali del Partito. Un’opera rigorosa e fondamentale per chi desidera comprendere le profonde connessioni tra ideologia, politica e pragmatismo di uno dei più discussi protagonisti della scena internazionale.
A wide range of projects are described in the latest Biennial Report of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer research branch of the World Health Organization (http: //www.iarc.fr/). Most of these projects involve collaborations with scientists in institutes throughout the world, covering topics ranging from descriptive epidemiology and biostatistics, cancer registration and analysis of data on cancer occurrence, to basic research on genetic and molecular aspects of cancer development to pathogenesis and prevention studies. Profusely illustrated, the Report also contains details of the personnel and organization of IARC and its activities, as well as a complete list of over 500 publications and articles authored by its scientists and their collaborators during the biennium.
Nei Bordelli di Himmler si tocca un tema spesso poco approfondito dalla ricerca storica sull’economia di guerra del Terzo Reich: la costruzione di “edifici speciali” destinati agli internati dei campi di concentramento nazisti. Su iniziativa di Heinrich Himmler, le SS introdussero la fruizione del bordello del campo come incentivo per aumentare la produttività dei lavoratori forzati (insieme a razioni extra di cibo, sigarette e altre agevolazioni). A inserirsi in questo sistema c’erano anche le aziende civili: le imprese tedesche, infatti, compravano dalle SS buoni per prestazioni sessuali a pagamento e li distribuivano come gratifica ai lavoratori più meritevoli, che poi li utiliz...