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UNINA9910819686503321 |
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Critical aspects of EPA's IRIS Assessment of Inorganic Arsenic : interim report / / Committee on Inorganic Arsenic, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council, of the National Academies |
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Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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0-309-29709-5 |
0-309-29707-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (128 p.) |
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Arsenic - Toxicology - United States |
United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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""Front matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Exposure Considerations""; ""3 IRIS Assessment Development Plans: Evidence Evaluation, Systematic Review, and Meta-analysis""; ""4 Hazard Identification""; ""5 Susceptibility Factors""; ""7 Dose�Response Analysis""; ""References""; ""Appendix A--Biosketches of the Committee on Inorganic Arsenic""; ""Appendix B--Workshop Agenda"" |
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"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program develops toxicologic assessments of environmental contaminants. IRIS assessments provide hazard identification and dose-response assessment information. The information is then used in conjunction with exposure information to characterize risks to public health and may be used in risk-based decisionmaking, in regulatory actions, and for other risk-management purposes. Since the middle 1990s, EPA has been in the process of updating the IRIS assessment of inorganic arsenic. In response to a congressional mandate for an independent review of the IRIS assessment of inorganic arsenic, EPA requested that the National |
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Research Council convene a committee to conduct a two-phase study. Critical Aspects of EPA's IRIS Assessment of Inorganic Arsenic is the report of the first phase of that study. This report evaluates critical scientific issues in assessing cancer and noncancer effects of oral exposure to inorganic arsenic and offers recommendations on how the issues could be addressed in EPA's IRIS assessment."-- |
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UNINA9910131948203321 |
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Autore |
Olaniyi Rasheed |
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Community vigilantes in metropolitan Kano, 1985-2005 |
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IFRA-Nigeria, 2005 |
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[Place of publication not identified], : IFRA, 2005 |
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979-1-0923-1205-8 |
2-8218-1964-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii-86 p.) |
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Occasional publication Community vigilantes in metropolitan Kano, 1985-2005 |
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Vigilance committees - History - Nigeria - Kano |
Crime prevention - Citizen participation - Nigeria - Kano |
Community policing - History - Kano - Nigeria |
Police-community relations - History - Nigeria - Kano |
Islamic law - Nigeria - Kano |
Social Welfare & Social Work |
Social Sciences |
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Kano is a city where a multi-layered form of community policing was established in the era of the rollback of the state in social provisioning in the midst of ever-increasing armed banditry and crime. Between 1985 and 2005, vigilante groups were established in almost all the |
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neighbourhoods of Kano with the support of the traditional authority and community leaders. However, government interference, political instrumentalisation and inadequate support undermined its critical rote. Part of the rationale for the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) in Sabongari lies not in the efficacy of such initiative in reducing the incidence of crime but to confer a sense of identity, control of crime and security. The contradiction in PCRC could be located in the pathological fixation of police on corruption, which alienated and depressed the public from providing valuable information for crime control. The activities of vigilante groups and Hisba have reduced the high rate of juvenile delinquency in metropolitan Kano. The litmus test for Hisba in the implementation of Sharia law would be how it could reconcile the social diversity in a multicultural society such as Kano to ensure security and social harmony. The study concludes that the gap between different forms of vigilante groups, conflicting political motivations and the near discordant relations with the police, produced a dysfunctional mechanism for crime control. |
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