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Widespread, long-term genetic effects due to environ- mental pollution cannot be accurately predicted but the cost is certainly great. Such cost estimates have not, until recently, been applied in matching benefits to cost in evaluation of a potentially hazardous substance. Hazards from a[r]
Future multidisciplinary research will combine molecular science and plant breeding with food chemistry, nutrition, food physics and food engineering.. In the last ninety years, process [r]
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Quantification of the risk associated with environmen- tal exposures is a major activity of environmental control. Originally, this effort focused on the effects of carcinogens; noncarcinogens were delegated to minority status. Now there is an increased level of
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Planning is an inter-disciplinary field which brings an understanding of public health, legal and social issues, and architectural design principles to develop theories of the his- tory and future of development patterns. From principles of urban[r]
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1000–35,000 mg/liter of dissolved salts. Sea water contains 35,000 mg/liter of dissolved salts, whereas brine contains very much more from salt water by a semi-permeable membrane, the fresh water will tend to flow into the salt water to equal- ize the concentration of salts[r]
Material-flow studies can address another macro issue of industrial ecology—dematerialization, which is the reduction in material use per unit of service output. Dematerialization can contribute to environmental sustain- ability in two ways: by ameliorating material-scarcity[r]
Purpose The VLSI Handbook provides in a single volume a comprehensive reference work covering the broad spectrum of VLSI technology. It is written and developed for practicing electrical engineers in industry, government, and academia. The goal is to provide the most up-to-d[r]
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S Capacity selector FIGURE 6 Flow-diagram of a multiple-effect-horizontal tube evaporator. The effects are vertically oriented, one on top of the other. This arrangement is compact and is called multiple-effect- stack type (MES) distillation equipment. 19 Preheated seawa[r]
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